WEDNESDAY25th October 2000

Denmark It was with great enthusiasm that we set out for Denmark at the end of August. The weather was superb and we had a great crossing from Harwich to Esbjerg. Tim Meadows of Anglers Abroad had arranged for us to use a house at Trunst, about ten miles from Silkeborg, and very close to…

What is it about a fish that will take a free swimming live bait, plugs, fly, spinners, float fished baits or a substantial fish, crab or squid bait legered hard on the bottom. Could it be that the Bass is a fish which allows you to fish however you want to, or is it the…

Robert Johnson of Washington State sent me an E-mail recently saying how he enjoyed my recent feature on fly fishing for carp, having seen the pictures of the twenty pounders he is intending to try the method himself. As Robert said “We have millions of big carp in the Columbia river and its backwaters”. Having…

News and Fishery reports First barbel 60 year old Stephen Ainscow of Ramsbottom Lancashire, a very experienced game angler for over thirty years and a member of Bowland Games Anglers Association wanted to catch a barbel so I invited him to join me for a couple of days on the river Teme. The first day…

Yet how many trout fishers ever read pike literature, or pike anglers read big-game articles? Very few. Perhaps they have missed something by not pooling their knowledge.I am fortunate in that I get to read everything printed in this magazine, and so sometimes I get to see connections that others perhaps might miss. If indeed…

Trophy Room for Sue Sutton Specie: Lake Trout Weight: 29 lbs Location: Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, CanadaI’m the cook at a fly-in fishing camp. This isn’t a particularly big fish for our lake – for most of the season our fishermen can reasonably hope to catch a laker over 30 lbs (and many will catch several…