Every good fisherman knows that having the best walleye lures with you on your fishing trip can make all the difference in the world. Lures are designed to replicate the look and movement of the prey that large fish prey on, but it pays to know which ones are going to make the easiest for […]

Gareth Purnell sets about proving that tare fishing is easier than many anglers believe and that stillwater roach can’t get enough of the stuff! HEMP and tares go together like strawberries and cream, or April and showers, yet it’s a mystery to me why I see so few anglers fishing with this deadly combination. I […]

By Alan Henry Tidal Trent, North Clifton In a recent match I lost a fish that I simply couldn’t do anything with and quite frankly made me feel a little inadequate. The lads around me were trying to tell me that it was a carp, but having never caught a carp out of the river […]

Q1 Doing all these magazine features obviously helps you pick tips up very quickly. If you didn’t do all these features do you think you would be an average angler? I think if I did all those features I would be a much better angler myself, as you are up to date with all the […]

I’d been intending to do a feature on the River Severn for a while, so when my original plans for the day fell though I decided on a ‘home’ draw and headed for the KDAA’s Hawksbatch stretch a mile or so upstream of Bewdley. Lots of the pegs at Bewdley are good for both silver […]

“I do an awful lot of shallow fishing using dibbers in the summer, and I reckon I have produced the perfect float…” Nick Glibert Nick Gilbert is 46. He has been fishing since he was about five years old. And he has been making floats since he was 12!  Nick moved into match fishing seriously […]

The man who led England to its first every gold medal talks about world championships set-ups past and present as he shares a pint and a pie with tcf’s editor, Gareth Purnell. Name Dick Clegg Age 68 Occupation International events manager for the NFA Hometown Barnsley, South Yorks Angling ambitions I’d like to see the […]

Gareth Purnell Reports When you get robbed on your first night in a new country, it can hardly be called the ideal start. Absolutely knackered after a 30-hour journey in our Captiva, kindly leant to us by Chevrolet for the event, we found our digs overlooking Hungary’s Lake Velence, unloaded what we could and crashed […]

Zander (Stizostedion lucioperca) Weight: Fish between 1lb to 3lb hunt in shoals, but once they mature they tend to become solitary. The average size attained by most fish in the UK is 8lb, with zander over 12lb a rarity. But occasionally a fish over 15lb turns up. Length: On average fish grow to between 66cm […]