A fortnight since I last caught a decent fish, last night I went down the Avon with Martin, carrying along minimal tackle but also the bur...

Keith Jobling treated me to a session at Napton Reservoir on Saturday afternoon. A fairly large water for the locality, but not one of tho...

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 ...

Dave Fowler, Martin Roberts and the Lesser Spotted Bankswooper (Ballivus rara) 50 years an active angler I've been asked to produc...

We arrived outside the locked gates long before opening time having calculated and allowed for the M25 but found it flowing along smoothly...

It's the angling world's most famous crucian carp fishery without any shadow of a doubt. Holding fish to eye-popping size, Marsh F...

The first sight on approach to a new water is always quite something isn't it?  Like catching a fleeting glimpse of breast through a d...

Lee Fletcher sent a bundle of pictures over yesterday. They're of a crucian that he once caught on a water well known to local specim...

I was asked a while ago to write an article about taking photos of crucians for identification purposes for Peter Rolfe's excellent web...