Barbel Bugging… Tenkara
I’m fascinated by all the posts that come in, but the recent one mentioning Tenkara really caught my eye. Personally, I first...
What’s Been Bugging Me About Barbel
For a long time I have been brooding about a barbel technique I flirted with around 1998/1999. In short, to set the...
TT Book Club: Fishing As We Find It
Edited by Peter Wheat Published by Frederick Warne, 1967. 18/- (90p)
There are many copies of this seminal book...
It’s Pike Red Alert Time Again
My very first cast into Ireland’s massive lough Erne landed me a twenty-five-pound pike. That was two decades ago and despite endless...
Go, Get A Grayling This Winter
This is NOT another potboiler by a writer trying to sell an article. This is a plea from the heart that if...
A Life in Fishing
Fishing one way or another has dominated my life. I started to fish at 4 years of age and I wrote my...
River Roach Obsession
I am totally crazy, gaga, mad for river roach and I’m not alone. Recent surveys have shown that a two-pound river roach...
River Roach obsession – part two
So, how did we get on, Ian and I, on our second day on the river Wensum. Day One had been a...
Fish & Fly interview Jeremy Wade about new series “Dark Waters”
Kirsty Hewitt of Fish & Fly, and Keith Elliott of Classic Angling, met up with Jeremy Wade to hear about his new...