TUESDAY11th April 2000

The last decade or so has seen huge growth in the range of flavours available to the coarse angler. This culminated last month in the launch of Ultrabite which is being put on the market with such extravagant claims as to its efficacy that there are already mutterings about whether or not it should be…

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…

Initially I thought this would be a hard one to answer because my favourite mix is usually the one we are developing at the time, but then I thought a little more about the most enjoyable times I have had fishing and realise that One mix stands above the rest. When I first joined Whizzo…

I served my apprenticeship through my local Shropshire match circuit and progressed to bigger and better things starting firstly with chub and barbel and eventually on to carp. Since then I have looked at very little else in the fishy world as carp are definitely “where it’s at”. I am a governor of The Carp…

Where to start then? If at all possible I would urge a newcomer to pike fishing to ask an experienced piker if they could tag along for a session or two. There are several reasons for this. First and foremost, it is to be shown how to handle a pike on the bank. It is…

I was keen to get back after getting to grips with the place and catching bream over 7lb, tench over 6lb 8oz and the icing on the cake, a lovely mirror carp just over 16lb. Another car greeted me as I made my way down the track, the first person I had seen at the…