TUESDAY11th April 2000

This competition is always held at this prime time of the year and great catches are generally assured. The club boasts a huge proportion of International fishermen and any win or even placing in the club events is a hard won honour. Chew had been fishing well leading up to Sunday. My friend Tony Baldwin…

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…Yet because of its simplicity it is so often overlooked by the modern breed of anglers who seem to have fixation with complex rigs using all sorts of bent wire and plastic gizmos. Having said that, it is essentially a shallow water rig which can be spectacularly successful in water up to fifty feet deep….

For quite a few years now, the staple rig for a UK catfish angler travelling abroad to fish the continental rivers has been the ‘bottle rig,’ otherwise known as the ‘buoy method’.There is no doubt at all that this is a red-hot method of presenting a bait. In fact, for a long time I thought…

Obviously, there is no great cut-off point, where you suddenly decide that in the next field you have moved from, say, the upper river to the middle river, and therefore a change of approach is needed. The transition from one area to another, and the change of approach that is required, is much more subtle…

All these set-ups, by the nature of the beast, mean fishing in the extreme margins or getting within inches of the fish. Centrepin fishing such as I discussed last week is one such way we can keep things so simple that the fish suspect nothing. In all lakes the fish come in extremely close to…