There was a period between 1990 and 2006 when it almost seemed like the angling press (and I’m not singling out any particular publication here) was reporting the capture of Continue Reading →
Sharp eyed readers will already realise (I hope!) that the weekly article I publish on here first appeared in the Weekend Sport newspaper exactly one year earlier. If you want to Continue Reading →
Sticking At It As Christmas approaches we encounter a challenging time for the river angler although it wasn’t always like this. Time was when winter was the best time to Continue Reading →
Angling Books – Bob’s Pick Of 2013 – Part Two More Books With The X(mas) Factor The past year has been bountiful, genuinely producing a fabulous crop of brilliant new Continue Reading →
Angling Books – My Pick Of 2013 – Part One 2013 has been a golden year for book publishing in the angling world with so many great titles being released. Continue Reading →
All Change Many anglers I meet on my travels are keen to hear my views on a particular brand of bait or hope to gain an insight to a devastating Continue Reading →
Method In The Madness I hate to think how many years have flown by since I rocked up at Mallory Park Fisheries one morning to shoot a video with film Continue Reading →
No Rest (or fishing) For The Wicked It is the ambition of thousands of up-and-coming anglers to work full-time in the fishing industry. Unfortunately their idea of work is sitting Continue Reading →
Welcome To The Dark Side Halloween traditionally marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the ‘darker half’ of the year. It is a night Continue Reading →
An Impossible Dream? By the time I was thirteen I’d read every single angling book on the shelves of my local library. We didn’t have an Internet back then, there Continue Reading →
If you enjoy watching angling on TV then the name Mick Brown will need no introduction. Mick Brown was Matt Hayes’ sidekick in series like Wet Nets, The Great Rod Continue Reading →
Tackling Specimen Bream Fishing for the biggest bream is patience personified. For most anglers life is simply too short to even contemplate catching a really large specimen. The unfortunate truth Continue Reading →
Weekend Sport Angling Column Bream Fishing Mention the Swinging Sixties to most folk and they’ll conjure up images of miniskirts, sexual freedom and pirate radio stations. Anglers who were around Continue Reading →
Weekend Sport Angling Column Mud Larks What angler has never sat beside a lake or river and tried to imagine what it would look like without the water? Imagine being able Continue Reading →
Weekend Sport Column – 15th September Boys Own Adventuring There are those who will measure a successful days fishing by what they catch. There are competitive anglers who’ll measure it Continue Reading →