Carp love feeding in weed during the height of summer, but what rigs should you use? Yateley ace Steve Fantauzzi has the answers… A LOT of carp anglers hate fishing in and around weed. I don’t know why, because I love it. I love it for one very good reason – most weed contains a […]
Carp Fishing In Weed
In conversation with John Raison
Dave Harrell: I can’t remember exactly which year it was when I came here to fish the first invitation match you organised after you bought the venue. I do recall, though, playing and eventually losing a huge stillwater salmon that was well into double figures! Tell us about how Gold Valley came about… John Raison: […]
Happy Days At Hawksbatch
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 […]
The Big Fish – A New Kind Of Carp Event
Back in July 2010 a new carp fishing event rose from nowhere to pin itself firmly and squarely on the UK angling map – The Big Fish. ‘The Big Fish charity celebrity carp tournament and show’ burst onto the scene without prior warning, and before we knew it Suffolk water park, Ipswich was descended upon […]
Defra Minister Praises Shooting And Angling’s Contribution To Conservation
The Government recognises and encourages the conservation work carried out by shooters and anglers, the Minister for Agriculture and Food Jim Paice told delegates at the Conservative party conference on Monday. Speaking at a very well-attended Rural Reception, hosted by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), and angling’s […]
Fishing The River Leam
Fishing The River Leam by Keith Jobling The river Leam springs near Hellidon in Northamptonshire and flows West through the villages of Marton and Offchurch before it confluences with the Warwickshire Avon in Royal Leamington Spa. For the majority of its length the Leam is a small river, indeed barely a stream in its upper […]
Hand Crafted Floats For Commercial Fisheries
“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 Changing Face Of River Fishing
Things not quite what they used to be on your favourite river? Charles Crundwell, senior technical specialist for the Midlands Environment Agency’s fisheries department, talks to the TCF magazine team… tcf: As recently as the 1980s the water in some rivers that ran through industrial areas was so polluted that fish could not survive. What […]
‘Pop-up’ to Napton Reservoir for a fine bag of tench…
Ashley Burton has cracked the business of bagging up on tench at Warwickshire’s Napton Reservoir. Here he reveals all to Total-Fishing.com… A PHONE call from my good friend Tony Peet got the old grey matter working. We were well into the river close season and he was missing his fishing. Did I have any ideas […]
The Land of the Long White Cloud
The Land of the Long White Cloud by Robert MacDougall-Davis Re-produced from an article originally published in Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Turquoise rivers, interspersed with long clear glides, pour through mysterious forests and thunder down lonely log-jammed gorges. And in this land of towering fjords, windswept tussock-quilted planes and virgin wilderness, trout of gargantuan […]
An Olive Spring In The Usk Valley
An Olive Spring in the Usk valley Robert MacDougall-Davis goes for a spring foray as he investigates fly fishing on the River Usk. Article Originally published in Trout and Salmon magazine…. PROFILE: Biologist Robert MacDougall-Davis is a regular contributor to the British angling press. He is currently writing his first book on fly fishing. A […]
Carp Waters Can Have A Silver Lining
Many commercial carp fisheries also have excellent populations of quality roach that provide brilliant winter sport and can win you matches. Ian Didcote shows you how to catch them fast on running-line tactics. A WELCOME side effect of the many commercial fisheries stocked with carp is the amount of quality roach fishing many of these […]
Cracking The Wide River Welland
River Welland ace Mick Parkinson fishes one of his Spalding club’s venues to prove that the famous river is bouncing back despite the rising popularity of commercial carp lakes. Find the colour in the water and fish Mick’s way and double-figure bags are on the cards. I LOVE fishing the Welland. It’s a challenge for […]
Pole Fishing On The Warwickshire Avon
Although my favourite style of fishing the Avon is with a pole for roach, there are times when you have to accept that the peg you have drawn isn’t good enough to win with them and that you’ll have to focus attention on other fish. Over the past few years there has been a remarkable […]
Picking Pockets in the Alpes Maritimes
By Robert MacDougall-Davis Re-produced from an article originally published in Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Rugged mountains pierce the heavens and here, in amongst the pine forests and wild flowers, cascading torrents and sapphire rivers flow. The air, swollen with the sweet alpine scent of aromatic pine needles, wafts down the mountains in warm pockets […]
