 | Wintle’s World – Self-take Photography
Mark Wintle looks at angling photography and self-take techniques in particular.
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| Wintle's World – Location
It was only when looking at these results that the penny dropped, says Mark Wintle. Location and simplicity was the key.
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 | Praise Where it’s Due?
Hold onto your hats and hide the blushes, Bob ‘Chubber’ Lancaster sings the praises of FM and some of its contributors.
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 | Writing a Fishing Book
Just as their pole fishing book is published Mark Wintle and Graham Marsden describe what it’s like to write a fishing book.
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| Wintle’s World – Doom and Gloom?
Is your glass half full or half empty? Asks Mark Wintle, who looks forward to another year of enjoyable fishing.
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| Wintle’s World – A Big Roach Campaign
Mark Wintle has spent decades chasing big roach and knows a thing or two about catching them.
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 | Beginner’s Essentials 5 – Buying Other Gear 2
Mark Wintle takes a further look at buying all the other fishing tackle accessories you need to go fishing.
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| Beginner’s Essentials 4 – Buying Other Gear 1
With rods and reels dealt with Mark Wintle takes a close look at buying other fishing gear.
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| Beginner’s Essentials 3 – Rods and Reels
Different styles of fishing each have rods and reels that are best suited to them, writes Mark Wintle
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 | A Day on Drayton
Mark Wintle and Graham Marsden try out Drayton reservoir as an alternative to Clattercote.
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 | Beginner’s Essentials 2 – What is Coarse Fishing?
Following on from Part 1 on legal necessities, Mark Wintle tells beginners about the main types of coarse fishing available.
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| Wintle’s World – Commercial Fisheries #3
Mark Wintle says it’s time for a reality check! The developments in coarse fishing taking place at present affect us all.
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| Wintle’s World – Commercial Fisheries #2
Mark Wintle looks at various ways in which commercial fisheries can improve.
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| Wintle’s World – Commercial Fisheries #1
Mark Wintle looks at developments in commercial fisheries and where they are leading us.
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| Wintle’s World – Peaking Waters
Mark Wintle relates the story of how a lake changed over the years.
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| Wintle’s World – Uncatchable Fish
Mark Wintle takes a closer look at fish that are considered uncatchable. But is there such a thing?
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| Wintle’s World – Match Conditions
Pleasure fishing well on your water doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll do well on match day, says Mark Wintle
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| Wintle’s World – Winter League Woes
Winter Leagues, love ‘em or hate ‘em, Mark Wintle wouldn’t have missed the experience.
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| Wintle’s World – All England Glory
Mark Wintle on the heady road to the All England Glory days.
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| Wintle’s World – Memorable Matches Part 4
Losing a match is often down to failing to see the obvious, says Mark Wintle.
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| Wintle’s World – Memorable Matches Part 3
The fastest matchman in the west, Mark Wintle, tells you all about speed fishing.
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| Wintle’s World – Memorable Matches Part 2
Mark Wintle remembers how he caught big chub on the Stour during matches…
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| Wintle’s World – Memorable Matches Part 1
Mark Wintle looks back at some of the most memorable matches he’s fished over the years. This week he’s on winning form on the Thames and Seacourt Steam…
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Winter Fishing
“Winter conditions often dictate that my weekend’s fishing venue will be wherever looks like the best prospect,” says Mark Wintle. So what does he look for in getting the best out of winter fishing?
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Worms and Lollipops
With about 100 years angling experience between us, here we were, learning new methods, says Mark Wintle. When it comes to chopped worms and lollipops it’s time to suck it and see…
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Grayling
Mark Wintle says grayling are a beautiful fish but he despairs for their vulnerability and explains exactly why…
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - A Twist of Fate
“A quest for big roach turned into a thwarted perch trip that finally produced a PB barbel – figure that one out!” Says Mark Wintle…
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| Wintle’s World of Angling # 100
Mark Wintle clocks up his 100th Wintle’s World article on FM and writes about catching personal best fish. He got his dream fish the hard way…
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Buying Reels
Mark Wintle with some good advice about making a wise choice.
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 | Wintle’s World of Angling - Buying Rods
Mark Wintle offers expert advice to rod buyers.
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Roach Book Review
Mark Wintle with an in depth review of the new roach book by Dr Mark Everard – good, he says, but room for improvement
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Hooks & Hooklinks
Mark Wintle offers a great guide to choosing hooks and hooklinks according to species, bait and method when light float fishing
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Keepnets
With his Commercial Fisheries series done and dusted Mark Wintle returns with his usual helping of angling common sense. This week he has ideas to improve keepnets.
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Shallow Water
You need a degree of skill to able to fish shallow water correctly says Mark Wintle and defines what he means by ‘shallow’
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Coarse or Game?
Game fishing: a rod for the coarse anglers’ back? Wonders Mark Wintle who also describes how to tell a salmon from a seatrout
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Walker Wrong?
Mark Wintle challenges some of Walker’s beliefs and says that although Walker was right most of the time, he was wrong some of the time
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Winter Warmth
Mark Wintle has changed to his winter fishing habits – travel light, keep moving and keep warm
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Big Roach in Decline
Mark Wintle looks at the decline in big roach fishing that once dominated the southern chalk streams
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Southern Specimens
You don’t just have to turn up in the south to catch big fish says Mark Wintle. Some areas are as devoid of specimens as Yorkshire
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Going With The Flow
Mark Wintle fishes all types of waters, but the true challenge is in river fishing, he says
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Summer’s Over
No more fishing after work in the evening for Mark Wintle whose summer is definitely over
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Bumblebee’s Bait
Mark Wintle meets up with that old codger Prof Bumblebee to try his new wonder bait on Throop
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Crafty Avon Chub
Mark Wintle beats the weed and the frustration and finally bags a few Avon chub
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Campaign Based Angling
Campaigner Mark Wintle has his season mapped out regarding species and venues
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Quest for a 5-16 Chub
Mark Wintle fulfils a dream and banishes the demons from 6 years ago when he left the scales at home
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Chub on Pellet
Mark Wintle usually a maggot and caster man, floatfishes pellets for chub, and with good results
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Eating My Hat
Mark Wintle decides he does like centrepin reels after all, and has to eat his hat
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Experimenting
Climb out of that rut says Mark Wintle. Get some experimenting done, or you’ll never know what you’re missing
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – The Price of Fish(ing)
Mark Wintle looks at the cost of fishing and wonders if we’re getting value for money
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – The Undiscovered Stour
Mark Wintle takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the little known reaches of the Dorset Stour
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – May Day Mullet
Mark Wintle tries a new method (to him) for catching mullet
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Match Fishing Decline
Mark Wintle delves into the reasons for the decline of match fishing
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 | Sway Lakes – Crocodile Tears?
Mark Wintle has some controversial thoughts about the recent syndication of this well known Hampshire carp and roach fishery
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – A Good Idea?
Mark Wintle looks at the bizarre and the ridiculous, from the Newark Needle float to the square bread punch
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – It looks easy but…
Master river trotter Mark Wintle gives a few lessons to pupil Neil Laing on the banks of the River Stour
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – A Question of Colour
The Christmas holiday period brought home to Mark Wintle just how much the actual colour of the water affects our sport, on both rivers and stillwaters
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Punch Vs Maggot
Mark Wintle loves his fishing for river roach with bread punch but even he knows it’s wise to have alternative baits
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Plan A
Mark Wintle has had enough of Plan Z so he’s gone back to Plan A with a little waggler fishing in the annual Christchurch AC Christmas match – and didn’t he do well!
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Plan Z
Changes in weather and other things often mean we have to resort to plan B. This year Mark Wintle has had to dig out Plan Z to get a session in
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Old Angling Books
Bibliophile Mark Wintle dips into his library of old fishing books and tells us which ones he thinks are a good read
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Rod Licences
Mark Wintle wonders if we really need a rod licence and makes a convincing case for doing away with it
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Frost
Mark Wintle reckons you shouldn’t be too wary about fishing in frost but keep the baits small and the tackle light
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Roach and Light Levels
Mark Wintle grabs his Starlite float and goes off to look into the murky world of twilight roach
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Of Perch & Worms
Mark Wintle goes off to catch a Dorset Stour perch. All he has to do is find ‘em……..
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Rivers Crisis Part 3
In this final part Mark Wintle tries to tempt a few of the missing faces to have a go at river fishing, whether for the first time, or to renew old and long lost habits
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Rivers Crisis Part 2
Mark Wintle continues his look at the worsening crisis of river fishing and looks at what we can do to ease the problem
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Rivers Crisis Part 1
Mark Wintle looks at the worsening crisis of river fishing and says that if we don’t do a lot to change the situation, an awful lot of river fishing is going to be lost to the vast majority
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Medley Rules Okay!
Mark Wintle enjoys a day on the Thames at Medley and says it was his idea of a brilliant day’s fishing
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Silver Bream
Mark Wintle says the silver bream is either being utterly ignored or mistaken for other species or hybrids of one kind or another
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Angling Attitudes
Mark Wintle tries to analyse our different attitudes towards the sport, with bag-up merchants at one end of the spectrum and anglers like John Bailey at the other
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Aquarium Gazing
Mark Wintle comes close to catching a massive roach from the Stour, gets seen off by a pike and enjoys a spot of aquarium gazing
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – The Otter Part 1
Mark Wintle with the first part of a two part article on otters and their impact on fisheries
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Summer River Roach
"This summer has seen some topsy turvey conditions, and finding an opportunity to catch a few roach from a river has been harder than ever," says Mark Wintle
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| Wintle’s World of Angling – Watercraft
”Is technique more important? Or is watercraft the vital ingredient to success? Asks Mark Wintle, who provides some of the answers
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Up in the Water
Not all fish feed on the bottom all the time, not even the bigger fish, says Mark Wintle, who’s been fishing ‘Up in the Water’ for over 30 years
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Dace
Mark Wintle targets the dace but crushed maggots and loads of little fish make it far from easy to get a few decent fish
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
The British Record Fish Committee – Could it or its procedures be improved? Is a serious shake-up necessary?
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Dorset Fen Tench
Mark Wintle finds that a bit of effort is all that is needed to locate Fens in Dorset
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| Wintle's World of Angling - Soft Southern Chub?
You'd think that Mark Wintle would have no trouble hauling out those easy monster Dorset Stour chub, with the river just three miles from his doorstep. But it isn't always quite that easy...
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| Wintle’s World of Angling - Mullet Magic
Mark Wintle starts the new coarse season trying to catch sea fish, as well as the more usual freshwater species
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| Wintle's World
This week, Mark Wintle, in his weekly column, looks at the continuing trend of tackle getting ever more powerful. Is he right? Read the article and then make your views known
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
What's all this fuss about eels in decline? Asks Mark Wintle. So what, do the majority of anglers really want them?
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
”I have had many excellent opening day sessions, though a few remained engraved in my memory for all the wrong reasons… says Mark Wintle
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle made a very traditional start as an angler, went on to become obsessed with caddis grubs, and still rates chalk stream roach as 'the best'
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle gives some good advice to club match anglers, declaring that you should fish to your strengths but not ignore winning methods
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle discusses the effects of over-fishing and the use of keepnets
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
While the rivers are still closed now is a good time to fish the commercials, says Mark Wintle
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle takes a close look at the development of bite indication methods, from floats to bite alarms to touch legering
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Modern reel fittings are great for a secure reel but they are far from ideal for comfort, says Mark Wintle
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle raises the controversial subject of barbel in stillwaters and offers some evidence to ponder over. Read it, and then have your say on the forum
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle goes with his mate Jimmy Lee for a day on the Windrush
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Dace are a relatively little fish that don’t receive the same attention as carp and barbel, and Mark Wintle is worried – are dace in decline?
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle goes in search of river bream in a Stour swim he knows of old and which made local angling history in 1984
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle’s plans to fish the Windrush are foiled by heavy rain but a trip to a chalk stream is rewarded with a nice grayling
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle’s years of playing fish on light tackle have taught him a thing or two about the technique. Brute force and ignorance are not the way.
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle takes a backward look at last season and discusses what went right and what went wrong
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle visits the Go Fishing Show at the NEC and gets to chat with some of the big names
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle and John Searl, on a frosty, bright morning, go in search of a Hant's Avon pike
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle likes it tough, so he goes in search of winter tench on a gravel pit with light float tackle and maggots
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle fishes Hereford’s wonderful river Wye and bags himself a great barbel
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Anglers collect floats like other people collect stamps, and Mark Wintle is no different. But he does have his favourites
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle struggles with foul winter weather but compiles a decent enough bag of fish on the stickfloat from the upper Stour
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle with a profile of angling artist John Searl who illustrated 'Red Letter Days', the book that honoured Bernard Venables
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle writes about the perils, pitfalls and often the triumphs of fishing flooded rivers
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Although Mark Wintle loves float fishing he still enjoys fishing the quivertip when conditions are right for the method. Here he describes how to go about it when quivertipping for roach with bread
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle writes about the day when he and Peter Jacobs fished some shallow swims on the Hampshire Avon for chub and grayling
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle rounds off a year of entertaining us with his intriguing and often instructional weekly ‘Wintle’s World’ column
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| Wintle’s World of Angling
Mark Wintle looks at fish introductions and examines why the general fish populations are how they are today
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