TUESDAY29th February 2000

My own birthday falls in February, so Iím stuck with permanent double-jeopardy. I figure the best thing to do each year is to distract myself from morbid thoughts by arranging something to really look forward to.In recent years my strategy has been to get as far from the winter gloom as possible, and into the…

Fellow angling writer Jason Inskip offered a simple cure for my bone-fever: ‘Get yourself off to the Seychelles my boy.’ The Seychelles Islands lie in the Indian Ocean, just below the equator, about 1,000 miles off the East African coast. Amongst knowing bone-fisherman, these islands have an almost mythical reputation. I gave myself two weeks…

His progress was hampered because he was carrying something heavy and the rain had affected his glasses, so that he had only the most general view of his surroundings. The lack of any close range detail meant that he continually stumbled over tussocks of grass and slipped in cow dung. Even at a range of…

This has come about at least partly because of the press. It is no wonder that the ‘where to fish’ pages and fishery reports are the most popular pages. Although often a bit out of date, these pages offer a mine of information for the angler looking for new locations. Throw in a couple of…

The thick straight waggler is a particular favourite of mine in two situations. The first is on fast flowing rivers where I need to drag line along the river bed without the float being constantly dragged under. The second situation where I favour the thick straight waggler is for ‘up in the water’ carp fishing…

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