Hard, soft or metal THE TYPES OF LURES I USE, AND HOW TO APPLY THEM TO PERCH FISHING Hard, soft,... 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
HALFWAY CANAL First outing was an exploratory session on the Half Mile section of the Grantham Canal at Woolsthorpe. This... Read More
STRANGE CONCOCTION Rather than rigidly sticking with the same old baits, it can pay off to experiment. Mystic is a... Read More
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
The photos say it all really. How to create a weight for river barbel and chub (and stillwater fish come... Read More
Last of the Summer Chub Summer has drawn to a close, transitioning to autumn. Daylight hours shorten as the leaves... 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
Dave Coster – River & Canal Waggler Tactics TREADING CAREFULLY Something I have learnt about waggler fishing is not to... Read More
OFF COURSE My friend Steve suggested checking out a golf course lake just outside Lincoln, telling me it can be... Read More
BY THE WALL I had been working for Hardy and Greys for several years, the only problem being they are... Read More
MARCH: WINTER REMAINS First trip early March and it still felt like winter when I arrived at Birch Lake, which... Read More
TIME FOR A CHANGE Pellet feeders have been around for a long time, but like many anglers I have drifted... Read More
I saw in yesterday’s Sunday Times (5th September 2021) that Lyng Mill, in Lyng, Norfolk, has come on the market,... Read More
A Deadly Tactic For Chub For many years now my summers have been spent wandering the riverbanks in search of... 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
By a raft of good fortune and with a lot of help from friends, I am in the market for... 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
The End of the Road Trip It was time to leave the South coast and head home. Not directly! Instead,... Read More
Chub: Trying to Track a Giant With the season well and truly under way, and the chub fishing steady, I... Read More