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Roach [Species Menu] [Roach articles] Common name: Roach Latin name: Rutilus rutilus Record weight: 4lb 3oz taken in 1990 by R. N. Clarke from the Dorset Stour. Distribution: Found throughout England, Ireland, Wales and Southern Scotland. Very common across the whole of Europe, where several sub-species and closely related species are also to be found…

Well no, although I might not actually start my winter river fishing for a couple of months yet, it is time to get out and get re-aquainted with the rivers. Believe me, do it now before the floods come along and the river is twice as wide, full of colour and bombing through. You will…

But this time the quarry was about as far removed as it is possible to be from the princely salmon – this time I would be fishing in the sea, for skate. I had been invited up by my friend Davy to fish from his boat Catchalot, in the Sound of Mull. Reports were of…

What? It looks good? Well so it should, considering all the work and planning that has gone into it. Fishing.co.uk replaces the old UK Fishing World site, blowing it out of the water in all respects. It’s still built by anglers, for anglers but now it has the added support of both Internet Advertising and…

A couple of pals had called me to join them on an overnight/ all-day trip but I couldn’t make the night session as Maggi and I had tickets to a concert. Instead, I lay in bed till 8.30am when the phone rang. It was the boys. They wanted to know when I was arriving and…

Pike fly leaders can be from two up to nine feet. Fishing a floating line, I use a leader between seven and nine feet which includes a foot of twenty pound wire. Some pike fly fishers have written in the press, You don’t need tapered leaders, others state you don’t need wire. I disagree on…