Wessex Angling Centre

It’s just over six hours flying time from Gatwick. There are flights in and out every Friday to Banjul, fares are relatively cheap, as is accommodation, and you’re pretty much guaranteed good weather outside the main rainy season through August and September. More to the point the fishing can be awesome with not just a…

Address: Pickering Trout Lake Newbridge Road Pickering Yorkshire Y018 8JJ Phone number: 01751 474219 Directions: From York take the A64 to Malton and then the A169 to Pickering. The fishery is well sign-posted in Pickering and is next to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Fishery details: One fairly clear spring-fed trout lake of approaching 4…

Sometime after the publication of the book, the river Bain once more came to my notice when Richard Walker fished the second of a three leg match on the river against Tom Sails, the Lincoln AA team captain in the early 1950’s. For many years I had planned to fish the water but as usual…

Anglian Waters report: by Guest Contributor, Monday 14th October, 2002 Articles related by topic: Game/Fly Fishing, Venue Articles related by species: Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout Rutland Water Jim Moncur, Keith Malcolm, and Michael Soutar, from Perthshire, Scotland, spent five days at Rutland, mainly fishing from the bank and recorded forty fish, with rainbows up to…

In reality the political scene, whether related to angling or any other topic, has not changed. Politicians and their lackeys promise everything to everyone, but very little ever gets done and so nothing really changes when anglers want improved fisheries and the environmental necessities that would guarantee those improvements.This was brought home to me recently…

Articles by Geoff Maynard Geoff Maynard geoff@fishing.org Geoff Maynard Born in East London 1950, raised in Essex, now living in front of a screen in Surrey with his wonderful posh wife, his punk daughter, his three boys who are too big to insult, and a doggie called Macs. As a small child, Geoff caught his…