Trophy Room for Stuart Turner

However, since at the moment all we’re doing is getting the boat into shape and rigging tackle until next week, I’m not going to bother you with an account of which bit goes where on a boat. Instead, I’ll give you the gist of a long conversation which I had with the venerable Peter B…

Articles by Martin James Martin James Martin James. International salt and freshwater angler, consultant, writer, author, broadcaster and TV contributor was born in 1937 in Kent, at Canada House, a nursing home for Navy officer’s wives. Martin caught his first fish in 1941 during a German bomber raid on his home county of Kent. As…

During the winter months something like ten tonnes of bream were taken out of the Engine House lake and put into the Yacht Lake. Now when you consider that the “yachter” already had a very big head of bream in it you can get some idea of just how many bream are there now (mind…

Articles by Russ Symons Russ Symons Russ Symons has been an angling Photographer/Writer for over thirty years, the last twelve of which, writing about and photographing the sea and its fish being his full time occupation. Progressing from a black and white darkroom in the attic of his Plymouth home, to the exacting colour requirements…

Portarra Lodge Address: Tullykyne, Moycullen, Galway, Ireland Tel: 00 353 91 555 051 Fax: 00 353 91 555 052 Email: portarralodge@tinet.ie Web: homepage.tinet.ie/~portarra/ A family run select accomodation set on the beautiful shores of Lough Corrib, in the west of Ireland. Portarra Lodge is a complete ‘Angling Centre’ as it has the facilities to cater…

So what does that tell you? Simply that they have moved inshore to the feed-rich sandbanks to feed up and build their strength up for their Summer-long sojourn in the sunshine. If there is a ‘duffers fortnight’ in sea fishing, this is it. Sometimes catches of a hundred fish a boat are not unusual on…