well, some of the time anyway!

Articles by John Olliff-Cooper John Olliff-Cooper John started his writing career with Angling magazine in the late 1960’s, since when he has contributed to most of the better-known hard copy magazines. Flirted with modernity for a few years, then panicked at the shallow hype of it all, and fled through 180 degrees. Having been properly…

I took a flight from Baltimore’s International airport for Orlando Florida. One of the great things about flying in the United States is the cheap air fares, compared with rip-off Britain’s air fares, high airport taxes and of course the very high tax on fuel. My destination was the town of Titusville on the east…

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Considering that I had just one day on the Ballynahinch, it was a piece of serious luck that I’d drawn Beat One of the Ballynahinch Castle Hotel water which took in the pool immediately below the lough. (A German guest at the hotel, indeed, sidled up to me and wanted to know how much I’d…

Time for a rant. I’m sure that not everyone would agree with the implication in the title that fishing is so poor in these Isles. And before you start flaming those emails at me, I do know that there are several places here where the fishing is very good. Those places are however quite rare…

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