WEDNESDAY10th May 2000

A weekend up on L. Alice was, therefore, planned. Initially, Belinda, patient companion on many obscure fishing trips, had decided that this was to be a solo affair. She did not think that the best place to be reading the latest thousand page novel was in some high, remote, spot, reminiscent of Scotland in the…

Loch Katrine – 8 miles long, around a mile wide, and surrounded by slopes clad in marvellous mixed woodland of oak, birch and rowan, backed by mountain peaks with mysterious Gaelic names; Beinn Chabhair (933m), Stob a’Choin (869m) and Ben Venue (727m), to name but a few. The scenery is literally legendary – immortalised by…

Carp are a very visible species, by this I mean they can be located in the water we plan to fish fairly easily but we must be quiet and stealthy. The carpís visible nature can be manipulated by us to put some fish on the bank. Broadly speaking, carp fishing methods can be put into…

An account of the fishing with full fishery details appeared in the October issue. However there could be criticism of the fact that I had fished at a time when fishing was mainly restricted to season ticket holders and residents. The fishery as stated in the feature does not fully open its doors to day…

I can’t even remember the name of the pub on Achill Island, in County Mayo, where I heard a phrase in Irish : ‘Ronnoch mor’ but I’m sure it was uttered by a big, red-faced, 60-ish commercial fisherman called Mangan. I asked him what it meant and he said, “The great mackerel”. Now at the…

How to fish the waggler by Bill Rushmer, Saturday 1st December, 2001 Articles related by topic: Autumn, Beginner, Coarse, Match, Pleasure, River/Canal, Spring, Stillwater/Lake/Pond, Tackle, Terminal Tackle/knots/rigs, Winter Articles related by species: Bream, Carp, Chub, Crucian Carp, Grass Carp, Gudgeon, Hybrids, Orfe, Perch, Roach, Rudd, Tench A waggler is any float that is attached to…