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Persuading politicians to form any kind of coherent, long-term policy is not exactly easy. One issue which needs tackling – and badly – is the long-overdue one of a proper water strategy.
The weather events of recent years have highlighted the fact that the UK has no joined-up water strategy. Such a strategy would...
LATEST ARTICLES
Let’s have some cartoons!
With so little to report from the fishing front in my part of the world, perhaps a few funnies can fill the gap left...
BBC News: Foam pollution causes River Great Ouse ‘bubble bath’
Pollution along a 10-mile stretch of river has left it looking like a bubble bath and hundreds of fish dead.
The River Great Ouse between...
The Method
If you are an experienced angler or even someone fairly new to the sport ‘The Method’ will be known to you if only in...
Safe Bolt-Rigging for the Beginner
In the best nutshell I am able to form: we used to fish for carp with the simplest of methods – either free-line or...
The London Fly-Fishing Fair 2018 – Rod Sturdy.
Imagine an event taking place in a building with flexible exhibition space of six thousand square metres which can accommodate conferences attended by up...
The Beasts of Twixmere
The Nutstown Angling Association had decided to go against the grain by retaining the traditional close-season in order to give everything – anglers, fish...
Drop-shotting – a welcome diversion!
Drop-Shotting
Apart from anything else we can thank the perch’s design for the tremendous sport it can give us when drop-shotting: the perch doesn’t muck...
THREE VIEWS ON THE RIVER CLOSE SEASON
Looking out at the unseasonably heavy snowfalls on the first Sunday of the river close season has made me almost grateful that I am...