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Following on from my previous article on “fly rodding for carp” here I intend to focus on the surface and subsurface tactics I have used in various circumstances to deceive fish – well, some of the time anyway!

Thankfully lots of birds come to my garden which make things Interesting. From the ever present sparrows and starlings, to blackbirds, thrushes,a pied wagtails, all the tits, blue, long tailed, coal and great tits, robins and wrens – all putting in an appearance during the course of a day. Many times my day is brightened…

In one way I am very pleased that it is one less lad left on the street corners; bored and directionless but I do have this selfish nemesis within me crying out, pleading that Ive tied enough hooks for others and answered enough questions already to put adequate numbers on the slippery slope of fishing…

Articles by John Young John Young John Young has been fishing since 1972. He started by drowning maggots for anything that came along but soon donned a floppy green hat and joined the specimen hunting scene. In the late 1970s he started pursuing carp and soon caught his first 20lber on diced potato. Years later,…

What I have never been able to understand is the mass killing of grayling that took place in the past on some of our rivers where they were treated as vermin, it was certainly a very backward attitude. Now some of these same streams where grayling were considered vermin are nothing more than put and…

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…