Fellow Don Valley Specimen Group member, Lee Swords entertains us with another epic tale as he and Mike Townsend head south to go-a-plundering stillwaters in search of specimen crucian carp …   In Search Of Gold     For anyone that hasn’t caught a very large crucian carp…and by that...

By way of a change, here’s a guest article by my good friend, top bloke, brilliant chef and ace angler, Lee Swords….   In search of Emeralds……Big fat slime covered green ones!   By Big Swordsey     My trips out for big bronze flanked bream have found me more absorbed in the wild...

The River Don Catchment – A New Kid On The Barbel Block The River Don doesn’t exactly leap to mind when folk start talking about ‘great’ barbel rivers or even Yorkshire barbel rivers, but it has a great deal more potential than you might imagine. Indeed the true potential has nowhere near b...

Earlier this summer Matt Brown and I agreed we really fancied spending a few hours on the Dove. We only had about half a day to spare as I needed to be home by early evening. That meant we would miss both key feeding times – dawn and dusk – but that didn’t bother us in the slightest. It’s j...

Now and then I get this irresistible urge to put the record straight. Okay, it might ruffle a few feathers but if I don’t do it who else will? Anglers are worse than washer women for repeating old wives tales. Read fishing articles for long enough and you’ll hear the same old dogmas repeated ov...