Veals Fishing Tackle

This month is generally speaking the last chance to make the most of warmer water conditions prior to the lower temperature of late autumn having its effect on water temperature and all fishes metabolic rates. With this in mind I will be continuing what has seemed to be a recent trend of introducing anglers who…

The bulk of fish are well offshore thinking only of recreating their species and, apart for some wreck fishing sport for pollack, ling, cod and coalfish, if you travel down to the West Country, then it can be pretty inconsistent in most areas. But there literally is a ray of sunshine. Thornback rays! The thornbacks…

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…

When I arrived there was just one swim available to fish, and that was really only half a swim, the rest was under water. The whole lake now was so flooded that another foot would have put the water over the track and flowing out of the gate onto the road. Record levels indeed. The…

During my first four days back home I was kept very busy working on programmes and my new book. Come Tuesday I was back on the river Ribble with Stephen Ainscow to record some material for my At The Waters Edge programme – BBC Radio Lancashire Thursday evenings at 7-30pm Saturday mornings at 6-00 am…

The Wessex rivers are miles wide; Oxford looks like the Lake District. Even if you knew where the river was it must be doubtful if the fish would feed, and anyway, searching for riverbanks in flooded meadows can be a very hazardous exercise. But I have been getting out. Fortunately M’s river does fish well…