The roach campaign on the Oxford Canal is now well underway. Well, underwhelming is probably the correct word for it, because on Friday I ...

I don't usually endure atrocious weather if I can avoid it. However, yesterday morning we had a perching trip planned during what was ...

What could be a better way to spend time on a warm summer afternoon than sharing a swim with a friend in the dappled shade of a stand of gr...

Crucian carp are one of those fish that are fairly easy to find round here. Perhaps I should say that fisheries that contain them are not ...

When fishing for roach only one weight really matters. Not two-pounds as you may have been led to believe. That target weight is for gener...

Having to compete for best swim is never fun but when the rivers are as low as they are now many stretches have just one or two viable opt...

Wake at 4am. Try to get back to sleep but orexins have already kicked in and are firmly lodged on my receptors. That's buggered my cir...

"Ooh, it looks nice, don't it? " Is what I said to Martin on arrival. And it really did look pretty good considering recent...

With the first feature of a new Total Coarse Fishing series hitting the shelves tomorrow morning, I thought I'd better get out there...

From whatever age I began to fish for tench I've always held that the first day of the season, the 'Glorious Sixteenth,' must ...

Grassy Bend this time around and for me, a second crack at mastering Norman's loaned pole. It felt warm as I stepped out the house whe...

Another shot at the urban Coventry Canal on the cards should weather conditions allow, instead of borrowing a pole this time around I deci...

An army of men stationed in military order wielding a bristling forest of sticks that reach from towpath to far shelf gradually disappeari...

Friday evening I met up with local angler, Norman (AKA Reggy Perrin) a man who knows a thing or two about the inner city Coventry Canal. ...

How often do you venture out, all full of yourself, tooled up, and ready to do battle with the monsters you imagine, only to be brought dow...

Despite the fact that the swim I found once promised so much, it seems now that it is becoming something of a bore. It was discovered when ...

Approaching good weather upsets fish. They'll respond to changes we might see as positive, negatively. I'm sure of it. The weather ...

Another morning chasing the elusive silver bream of the Coventry Canal saw an earlier arrival than I'd made for the previous session, b...

Curious fish that they are, turning up in braces on consecutive casts just as often as singles out of the blue -- but for the life of me I ...

Quite liking the canal night sessions now that I've done a few. You don't see anybody at all. No one is around after dark in stark ...