'My tactic for them will be to try next for chub and perch knowing there's a more realistic chance of finding such elusive fish by...

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

Dawn fishing in summer is wonderful isn't it? The most romantic of all fishing experiences ever committed to print, it appears in every...

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...

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...

I really thought the lean times were over when I first caught a glimpse on my way down the alley back of Lucy's Mill. The lovely jade c...

An exploratory mission this. To Oxford, and Old Father Thames. Judy went shopping, but I of course forwent the attractions of Bicester Shop...

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 ...

Some time last week, perhaps Tuesday evening down the cut fishing with Norman, I became aware of a twinge in my leg. A kind of sharp ache i...

I thought I'd do the night. Get out after dark and fish through till dawn just to see what would happen, because I never have fished ...

Bummer! The weather, the weather, the flipping British weather! Just last Friday night I was sitting at a pit freezing my nads off dressed ...

'Till tomorrow' was how we left off after my last silver bream tale, and tomorrow comes around, inevitably. Would the silvers put i...

Have I actually caught what the title suggests? Well, no. Quite the contrary. I have not. I'd like to have, but haven't. I've t...

The Old English. What did they know about modern weather, eh? What did they know about global warming, Huh? Nuffink, I'll warrant. They...

I went out looking for silver bream again last night, and found them. Well, I found two, but neither on the end of my line which remained i...

It seems an age since I last fished the canal seriously. A few half-hearted and unsuccessful attempts at zander and pike, but hardly any ro...

Martin and I mounted a foray after a couple of target species up the Grand Union Canal Saturday last - he after zander and me after zander ...

Fishing in places where monsters lurk has been an abiding theme of my year's angling so far. Two trips to Marsh Farm after outsize cru...