well, some of the time anyway!

.The water levels across the country, but especially it seemed in the Thames valley, dropped very fast over the space of just three or four days, dropping by as much as two feet. When I arrived at the lake I found parts of it had emerged from beneath the water that had been under water…

With so many of you readers now going abroad for a fishing holiday, I feel I have to start this months column with a warning. Remember what I said last month about losing baggage? Since September 11th everything has changed. On my last two flights I wasn’t allowed to take my rods as hand luggage…

Mahi-Mahi are great fish. They give an angler a fight that he or she will never forget. Mahi-Mahi are also known as Dolphin (not the bottlenose dolphin). Mahi-Mahi make long runs and will often leap out of the water when you are battling them. They are also excellent tablefare. On this adventure, we head down…

The lake was still quiet, just me there, rain was forecast but the wind that had helped me on the session before had gone. I had seen carp roll consistently in an area of the lake opposite the swim I fished last time so I drove straight round there. In the swim in question the…

“The catch of Irish Salmon is on a fast downward spiral. The total catch has fallen from an annual 1600 tonnes in the seventies, through 1152 tonnes in the eighties, to 630 tonnes in the nineties and lower still today. This trend will lead to the extinction of Irish Wild Salmon by the end of…

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…