WEDNESDAY25th October 2000

For example, the catfishing can be excellent, there are some huge pike, very decent chub and some excellent roach fishing, especially in the north of the country. However, for the past ten years or so whenever I’ve gone to France it has been with barbel tackle in the boot of the car.Of course, fishing in…

Last year brought about a few changes in the world of angling that may benefit all of us in the future, and the hope that by the end of 1968 we will be just a bit stronger politically by becoming a unanimous and persuasive voice to those people who are supposed to listen. The opportunities…

It seems almost as if the 12 foot beachcaster has become a badge of office, a status symbol, for the aspiring shore angler, for those that know, nothing could be further from the truth.Floatfishing a sandeel bait in the magenta half light of dawn or working a prawn behind a limpid swell tinted with the…

I suppose if you have to compare an asp with any fish that youre likely to know about immediately, it would be a chub. They are roughly the same shape, have approximately the same scale patterns and are blessed, also, with big bullish heads. However, its here that these superficial likenesses end. The asp is…

3MM ELECTRICAL TAPE I know of no other electrical tape on the market as good as this, and it has a variety of uses in fishing. One extremely useful use is to tape over the reel seat before attaching the reel (stops and prevents corrosion over a long period of time) and then, once the…

There are dolphins, both bottlenose and common, pilot whales, Cuvier’s beaked whales and some more cetaceans yet, seen far away, their watery blows arcing into the sky against a cold and arid landscape. Of course, no tuna. No bait. Shearwaters circle aimlessly and gulls wait patiently in small forlorn flocks. Below in the saloon, Nigel…