This is a new series for Fishing Magic and the concept sounds a good one to us. Dave Coster is... Read More
I’m fascinated by all the posts that come in, but the recent one mentioning Tenkara really caught my eye. Personally,... Read More
By a raft of good fortune and with a lot of help from friends, I am in the market for... Read More
MARCH: WINTER REMAINS First trip early March and it still felt like winter when I arrived at Birch Lake, which... Read More
MEETING THE ENIGMA I was told there was an angler who regularly caught big bream from a local reservoir, but... Read More
A Start to the Season June 16th came, and for the first time in years I didn’t fish! The 17th... Read More
Chub: Trying to Track a Giant With the season well and truly under way, and the chub fishing steady, I... Read More
Dave Coster – My Way with Bread IN THE BEGINNING My first proper acquaintance with bread as a viable bait... Read More
Many of us were brought up in our fishing infancy by the wise words of Mr Crabtree, aka Bernard Venables.... Read More
As a bit of a birder, I was fascinated by the recent spat over in New York over the snowy... Read More
CHASING SHADOWS Since moving to the Midlands I have discovered a wealth of lakes that hold chub. However, this species... Read More
BACK ON THE CUT Canals didn’t figure in my fishing for a whole decade as they were too far away,... Read More
It’s a cold, dank day, with a vicious Northerly wind blowing down the valley. Hardly what I’d expect for the... Read More
BREAD PUNCH Punched bread doesn’t work everywhere, but when you do find a venue that responds to it, this simple... Read More
Dave Coster – River & Canal Waggler Tactics TREADING CAREFULLY Something I have learnt about waggler fishing is not to... Read More
ICE AGE Rivers were flooded and stillwaters frozen, wonderful! But as always, my angling pal Dave Eastwood was as keen... Read More
Hard, soft or metal THE TYPES OF LURES I USE, AND HOW TO APPLY THEM TO PERCH FISHING Hard, soft,... Read More
HALFWAY CANAL First outing was an exploratory session on the Half Mile section of the Grantham Canal at Woolsthorpe. This... Read More
Chub on Lures THE DAWN OF A NEW SEASON, GLORIOUS WEATHER, WHAT TO TARGET? For many years now my summers... Read More
Chub: A Lure and Fly Day The weekend approached and I couldn’t decide what to target. I had planned on... Read More
I’m sorry if I have appeared to lay the law down over my ranunculus observations, on the Wye and tributaries... Read More