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 ...

It's been quite a while since I last went to a proper commercial fishery. A year I reckon. It must be because in my right m...

After the long heat of the day, in the cool of evening what's more certain to re-invigorate the sluggish, reluctant reflexes than w...

Second stint at the ressy started off just exactly where I left off last weekend. Same swim, same line, same bait, same plethora of bite...

Sorry for my sad broken rod, its tip dangling uselessly jammed against the float, I pushed the glass splint back in the splintered c...

It's three-thirty in the morning and I've been home an hour. The first blackbird calls from the top of a nearby holly, the air is c...

A few recent trips after crucians and earlier season trips after Perch have taught me one thing -- there's an awful lot of carp out the...

Following up on one of the weekend's leads, I decided to pay the lake, where I'd seen a group of what I hoped might be rudd swimmin...

I don't quite know where I came across that expression, and have always wondered what the hell it could mean. I'm sure it's q...

Lemington Lakes in the Cotswolds was our venue for the day. A complex of five or six lakes all carefully manicured and just as carefully st...

When it comes to crucian 'carp,' the whole world of certainty concerning fish and their genetic purity turns turtle and stands upon...

The sixth four hour session after the canal carp and it would be the last whether I caught or not. I should have tried in summer when the f...

Another crack at those canal carp seemed a good idea yesterday evening. Warm and pleasant for the time of year and with a little light rain...

Another two four hour sessions after the Cov Canal carp come to a close without result. The first was a late afternoon into darkness affair...

I had to go back. That single dropped run I had was enough to inspire a foray even if the lovely sunny day ahead couldn't tempt me out....

As it was such a warm day yesterday I thought I'd have a crack at some carp that have been reported out of a notorious local canal peg ...

We were after grass carp and a pleasant day spent fishing floaters for them but an hour spent on the chosen water observing fish rise to a ...

In my new found enthusiasm for figuring out the foibles of large stillwater bream I decided that I'd need to have at least two waters t...

We went on a long, long walk last Sunday, Judy, the dog and I. A nice Sunday morning stroll that then became a hike and later a near maratho...