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

Last Saturday I fished the match at Bewdley and when I drew peg 115, the pipe swim, I really fancied my chances of a big weight. I won off this peg on the first midweek match of the season with sixty-one pounds of barbel; I’ve had a successful magazine feature off it and done some…

His progress was hampered because he was carrying something heavy and the rain had affected his glasses, so that he had only the most general view of his surroundings. The lack of any close range detail meant that he continually stumbled over tussocks of grass and slipped in cow dung. Even at a range of…

In the relative cool of the early morning Arno and I waded silently across the glassy shallows of the lagoon, eyes peeled for sting rays under our feet, and bones shadowing into range. Away from the surf on the outer reef, it was deathly quiet. Anything more than a whisper would have been quite out…

This experimentation gives me a lot of fun and adds a fascination to my fishing, but for all that, when it comes to catching fish, the right bait(lure), in the right place, at the right time, is the only sure way to consistently catch fish. And the only way you are going to learn this…

Articles by Eric Edwards Eric Edwards Eric Edwards is forty five years of age, a logistics manager and lives in St. Helens, near Liverpool with his wife and three children. An angler since the age of six, he has specialised in catching specimen coarse fish for the last thirty years. Notable captures include a record…

Fact is they’re missing out on a species that is just peaking in both numbers and size during that period. The ever obliging dab keeps you out and about enjoying yourself and eases that “wishing I was fishing” feeling that grips us during the darkest time of year.Providing you’re casting on to sand, it doesn’t…