well, some of the time anyway!

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that at Rutland in the Peregrine/Nomad final, on a day when fish moved all over the lake, casting a booby and stripping it back as fast as possible past the nose of the fish, was in fact the method employed by most! I must confess to having strange…

Directions: From Wareham take the A351 towards Swanage. Turn left at Corfe Castle down the road sign posted for Studland and follow the road under the disused railway bridge. About 300 yards on your left you will see a sign saying “Arfleet Mill Lake Coarse Fishing”. Go through the gate and travel down the dirt…

For many years I have fished fast flowing rivers with float approaches. It’s a style of fishing I really enjoy as it’s challenging and very rewarding when you get it right. My apprenticeship saw me on rivers like the Derbyshire Derwent, the Upper Trent, the upper Avon, the Wye and, of course, the Severn. Whenever…

For 2001, Fishing Adventures also offer Drive & Survive hoidays to 5 superb venues all offering exceptional carp fishing in wonderful locations.These vary from Lac Horre at 250 acres to select small waters such as Baudet. As we write, negotiations are in progress for another lake to come on line in the spring of 2001….

Articles by Martin James Martin James Martin James. International salt and freshwater angler, consultant, writer, author, broadcaster and TV contributor was born in 1937 in Kent, at Canada House, a nursing home for Navy officer’s wives. Martin caught his first fish in 1941 during a German bomber raid on his home county of Kent. As…

The bonus is that tope grow big. It’s not unusual to get tope in the 20lbs to 40lbs weight range when shore fishing and you are in with a realistic chance of fish to 60lbs at certain times of the year. Cod and conger aside, no other fish reach these weights that a shore angler…