I’ve owned a copy of this hand-written document for a long time, always kept secret, for it has long been a source of knowledge and inspiration… Continue Reading →
Following on from the first article where Billy told us how Ivan Marks revealed the secret of catching bream, here he reveals the winning format for all bream matches and Continue Reading →
It’s Great…, It’s British…, It’s Me! It’s not every day you find you’re the ‘star’ – I use that word guardedly, of the best part of a whole hours worth Continue Reading →
I recently posted the following image on Facebook. It relates to a number of special events I was involved with 21 years ago in 1994. How time flies, eh? There’s my pass to Continue Reading →
What a washout this winter has been. I’ve never known the rivers to be out of sorts for so long and just when the monsoon begins to subside the Environment Continue Reading →
Were you ever a fan of American comics? I don’t mean Lenny Bruce and Robin Williams, I mean Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wonderwoman and so on. In my youth DC and Continue Reading →
I needed a break. High water levels made it nigh on impossible to get near the Trent and the tributaries were no better. Match results from local stillwaters were pretty Continue Reading →
Going For Gold With most of the UK’s rivers running high and carrying torrents of swirling brown water I’m starting to get pretty fed up. January was the wettest month Continue Reading →
Don’t Call Me A Prawn The vast majority of commercial fisheries in the UK do not contain pike. They simply aren’t a match fishing target which is the fundamental purpose Continue Reading →
It’s really scary how our lives fly by. This was my 50th diary article for Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine yet it barely seemed like five minutes since the first one. Oh Continue Reading →
Dreaming Of Better Things To Come Okay, I hold my hands up, the weather is doing my head in! One day it’s tipping down with rain and the rivers are Continue Reading →
It’s Time To Get Organised Happy new year folks! Anyone been wetting a line? Thought not. Just prior to Christmas the UK took a bit of a battering from gale Continue Reading →
The past decade is pretty much a blur. Scary if you think about it because the next ten will fly by just as fast and none of us is getting Continue Reading →
Use Your Loaf As the clock counts down towards January one fish species is guaranteed to get my juices flowing. Winter is chub time. They are in peak condition right Continue Reading →
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 →