How To Tie A Knotless Knot Snake-Bite is Simon’s first choice hook link, whether fishing for 50-pounders at Yateley or 10-pounders at Roost Hole! Peel a length of Snake-Bite off the spool like this. You need to peel off around 16 inches in total. Thread on a hook. Simon uses the Continental Boilie hook because […]
Knotless Knot
Tare ‘Em Up
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 […]
The plight of the spurdog
THERE have been an increasing number of sporadic but significant hauls of spurdog (Squalus acanthias) encountered by Cornish fishermen in recent months. Just last week a Newlyn based trawler accidently caught more than 10 tonnes of spurdog while fishing for John Dory around the Isles of Scilly. This meant damaged fishing gear, lost fishing time […]
Biot Backed Buzzer (Small Stillwater)
The inclusion of the orange goose biot along the back really works. This fly can be fished like a Shuttlecock Buzzer when treated with a bit of floatant. It can also be fished just sub-surface when left untreated. Fish it on its own, or as a point fly, with a couple of lightweight patterns on […]
Fishing Loch Ryan From The Blue Peter Hotel
The Blue Peter Hotel at Kirkcolm, Stranraer in the Scottish region of Wigtownshire is the perfect base from which to enjoy the magnificent fishing of Loch Ryan and the surrounding area. Coarse anglers can target pike to over 30lb, plus quality bream, roach and perch on venues like Loch Heron. The sea angler has really […]
A Test of Floating Fly Lines
Total Fly Fisher magazine looks at some of the leading floating fly fishing lines on the market and what you should look for to suit the type of fly fishing you are planning. The Test For all-round stillwater use, a 7-wt line is the UK angler’s number-one choice. We took 14 of the latest […]
Lee Jackson & Rob Tough fly flag for England finishing 2nd at World Carp Classic 2013
After an incredible week of drama and excitement at Lake Bolsena in Italy Lee Jackson and Rob Tough produced a world class performance to take the runners up spot in this year’s World Carp Classic.After drawing a peg in the heart of Marta I think it was fair to say both anglers were happy that […]
Larysa Unleashes Carp Fishing On The USA
Call it fate, destiny or the workings of a “higher power” but, when two personalities with similar ambitions come together there’s no telling just how far and wide the parameters are for what they can achieve. In this case, the ambition is to raise carp awareness worldwide, especially in the United States! To the majority, […]
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Stepped Up Feeder Work For Specimen Trent Fish
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 […]
How To Stop Spod Spill
Dave Lane explains how you can make sure bait doesn’t fall out when you are spodding. ONE aspect of spodding that tends to be overlooked a lot is the elimination of ‘spod spill’. This is where, just after you cast your loaded spod out, a shower of bait from the top of the spod rains […]
The River Severn at Shrewsbury
THE River Seven at Shrewsbury is, quite simply, a magnificent place. The venue has been attracting match and pleasure anglers alike from all over the country for many years. Each season, between October and March, there are open matches organised every Saturday, which regularly attract from 50 to 70 anglers. The stretch that is used […]
Jon Arthur’s Match Fishing Questions And Answers
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 […]
Lake Guri Tackle Busters
Lake Guri: Venezuala’s Best-Kept Secret By Steve Townson www.amazon-angler.com I travel all around the world to get my fishing fix and as I am a roving, fish-mad, action-seeking sportsangler and wildlife fanatic, I love nothing better than heading up some undiscovered jungle river or hidden lake in search of crazy, wild fish. I was invited […]
Chocolate-brown Blackwater
Tim Smith and myself, along with other selected members of the angling press, had been invited over to Ireland for a spot of small-water competition fishing. Tim had other things to attend to, so he said (I actually think the whole thought of competition freaked him out), so he couldn’t make it. However, I managed […]
