TIME FOR A CHANGE Pellet feeders have been around for a long time, but like many anglers I have drifted... Read More
Quite a few musings here, so I hope you’ll forgive my scattered thoughts. In fact, so scattered are they that... Read More
Hard, soft or metal THE TYPES OF LURES I USE, AND HOW TO APPLY THEM TO PERCH FISHING Hard, soft,... Read More
This is a new series for Fishing Magic and the concept sounds a good one to us. Dave Coster is... Read More
HALFWAY CANAL First outing was an exploratory session on the Half Mile section of the Grantham Canal at Woolsthorpe. This... Read More
CHASING SHADOWS Since moving to the Midlands I have discovered a wealth of lakes that hold chub. However, this species... Read More
Life eh? All summer we have have been bemoaning river levels too low then, in a trice, the Wye is... Read More
The End of the Road Trip It was time to leave the South coast and head home. Not directly! Instead,... Read More
As a bit of a birder, I was fascinated by the recent spat over in New York over the snowy... Read More
BY THE WALL I had been working for Hardy and Greys for several years, the only problem being they are... Read More
Many of us were brought up in our fishing infancy by the wise words of Mr Crabtree, aka Bernard Venables.... 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
The photos say it all really. How to create a weight for river barbel and chub (and stillwater fish come... Read More
Chub: Trying to Track a Giant With the season well and truly under way, and the chub fishing steady, I... Read More
WORKING EVERYWHERE I got into fishing shallow with the pole down South on the regular sweepstakes Mick Toomer used to... Read More
Dave Coster – My Way with Bread IN THE BEGINNING My first proper acquaintance with bread as a viable bait... Read More
By a raft of good fortune and with a lot of help from friends, I am in the market for... Read More
I enjoyed the privilege of fishing alongside Dave Coster a couple of days last week, just before rain drove the... Read More
ICE AGE Rivers were flooded and stillwaters frozen, wonderful! But as always, my angling pal Dave Eastwood was as keen... Read More
FIRST FROSTS Scraping ice off the car for the first time this year, reminded me that tactics might need changing,... Read More
Last of the Summer Chub Summer has drawn to a close, transitioning to autumn. Daylight hours shorten as the leaves... Read More