It is with much sadness that my time on the Thomas Turner websites has drawn to a close. For me... Read More
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This is going to be nip and tuck. My goal of catching a barbel every month of the winter hangs... Read More
I relish chalk stream fishing when I can get it, though with reservations. Stocked fish of size rarely interest me... Read More
Well, my great friend Simon spent yesterday getting me in part conversant with my Facebook account that I had let... Read More
Interesting to see the Sunday Times magazine (January 9th 2022) covering the plight of the salmon netsmen of yore. The... Read More
In nearly all ways this letter speaks for itself. Buller’s “The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike” was published first in... Read More
It seems that I cannot avoid Theo Pike. Yesterday I received an email from him, quite out of the blue.... Read More
Over the past year, I have frequently highlighted the artists of one sort or another operating around the angling scene.... Read More
These pictures from Monday have raised eyebrows amongst my friends, and indeed are impressive in their biblical, dawn-of-time way. Of... Read More
Good to hear back on the grayling issue, and why rivers come and go with seemingly startling rapidity. Perhaps an... Read More
Angling is hardly a world wherein woke attitudes have really taken root, but perhaps they should. Diversity is a concept... Read More
I guess this time of the winter many of us will be thinking grayling, either on float or fly. (Personally,... Read More
After the festive period has been and gone, I felt a quick return to the Alston letters would be of... Read More
I have a great regard for Fish Legal, the pollution fighting arm of the Angling Trust. Yesterday they sent all... Read More
So… there you go… a barbel every month of the winter, though I accept March might officially be the first... Read More
I’m glad that my piece on stocked trout yesterday raised an eyebrow or two. In many ways, as was hinted... Read More
On Monday just gone Enoka’s first grayling came from a tributary of the Wye and fell for a Squirmy Wormy,... Read More
The facts are simple. The upper Wye has been in good grayling nick for a decent while, and four visits... Read More
My nightly vigil on the middle Wye has provoked some comment, and there is much to add. Of course, the... Read More
I wonder what you made of Boxing Day’s Paul and Bob offering? Perhaps coarse anglers didn’t relate to salmon, and... Read More
It has long occurred to me that often when guiding, the anglers with me are more interested in hearing my... Read More