Trophy Room for STEVE FALCO

My mix for flatties (flounders) was very simple but effective and consisted of 1 tin of Pilchards, 1kg of medium Brown crumb and a couple of handfuls of sand. My pal and I knew what each ingredient did in the overall mix, the crumb was the carrying agent for the Pilchards which in turn acted…

We tend to proceed conservatively, bound by norms, and received wisdoms. Progress sometimes requires that those received wisdoms be set aside for a while, to allow in the ravings of the lateral thinker, the loose cannon, or the seeming lunatic. It may be that Iím all of the above, but I ask you to read…

They are very competent people and we can manage without a deckhand. Beyond the drop-off I slow the Margarita, put the spread out and relax. The weather is hazy with a slow, long, oily swell from the west ; water 72.6. Jonno is inshore with Angullla, unhappily day-tripping for barracudas along the coast. At 10.55am…

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After telling you all last month at my spectacular non-event at the newly formed ‘Loggies Lake’, I thought I would re-live this weeks adventure. Andrew had cried off due to ‘pressure of work’; he really ought to learn the value of prioritising, but as he says, “All work and no play keep the debt collectors…

The mild weather soon passed and through the rest of March and April temperatures never got above mid-double figures. I spent every weekend fishing and walking and baiting areas, with only tench and bream to show for my efforts. Although this period wasn’t productive, I didn’t consider it a waste of time, in fact the…