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It got its name from the fact that the body cover was made from a gold coloured milk cap foil used to show that the milk came from a Jersey cow.This versatile fly can be fished either as a lure or as a nymph with either a floating or sinking line. It has certainly saved…

Although it had only been a few days since my last session, in the area I had been fishing it did not look like the carp were still around as the water had cleared a little and the weed was very visible, as was the brown sandy bottom in places. Therefore I decided to have…

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…

Heavy groundbaiting is usually carried out with a large amount of breadcrumb as groundbait, either brown or white. I personally have never found any difference in either colour though brown has a more prominent smell to us as humans and there may be truth in the possibility that a carpet of white groundbait scares fish…

As most of you will know, carp generally move around a lot less in winter than they do in summer. So the usual advice is to fish as close to them as possible, and keep your groundbaiting patterns, if any, very tight.