You cannot beat simply watching the water for signs of carp movement for getting

‘WHOAA !!’ shouted Jeff at the top of the ladder beside me and I whipped around from peering into the fishfinder. ‘LONG CORNER !!’ and he was gone down into the cockpit. I saw the fish clearly then, bill out of the water, the fish acting like a sailfish at a teaser. The fish faded…

Well that’s the philosophy over with; let me now tell you about yesterday’s angling adventure, first some history though… I learnt to catch carp at a hungry little water called ‘Champs Fishery’ in Canterbury. A days fishing could result in thirty or more fish all between three and six pounds. Four pound mainline, a quarter…

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The year must have been 1965, and I was a six-year old in a fish market on the Greek coast, eyes popping out at the sight of a bluefin bigger than myself, and I distinctly remember my mother dragging me away forcibly from the fish counter, my heels smoking against the floor. I never knew…

This free fishing venue is a mixed fishery that appears to be improving every year. It is very much a river that has come back from the dead. Typical River Crane chub A fair net of River Crane roach A small barbel-stocked by the Environmental Agency into the River Crane View from the Meadway bridge…