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 →
The Fens Are Ruddy Fantastic There’s something special about the Fens that I love. Spreading from Peterborough in the north to parts of Norfolk in the east, Earith in the Continue Reading →
This Method Is Completely Quackers Looking back I reckon the most fun I ever had in fishing was during thosee years when I competed in club matches. This was in Continue Reading →
Break The Mould And Do Something Different The city of Istanbul assaults the senses. It bustles. The traffic is manic and the people, shall we be kind and describe them Continue Reading →
Sweet Success It’s said that when the going gets tough, the tough get going but sometimes an angler is better off taking the soft option. Don’t go on the attack. Continue Reading →
Top Action With A Pellet Waggler There are few more enjoyable ways to catch carp from commercial fisheries than with a pellet waggler. In theory it’s a simple way to Continue Reading →
Seed Sensation With rivers running low and clear you may be finding it as difficult to attract bites on conventional methods and baits as you did in the middle of Continue Reading →
Fishing With The Upper Crust If you were to read the gossip on the Internet fishing forums you’d be forgiven for believing the recent heatwave has resulted in terrible river Continue Reading →