Passion for Barbel
Perhaps this should be better entitled The Barbel That Saved Me. My pike failure on the Wye that I mentioned is neither...
Tackle Shed Treasures – Richard Masters
I have known Richard Masters for many years now, and have admired him as a man and as an angler. He was...
My River – Dr Mark Everard
We are never going to write up a more fascinating My River than this one, for the simple reason that Mark has...
Lifelines. An Anthology of Angling Anecdotes, and More…
£10.95 Available direct from the website of the publishers Arthur H Stockwell Ltd, Ilfracombe.
What’s not to like about...
The Tench Timetable 00:10
#10 TENCH TODAY
Why have tench grown so big this past quarter century? This is the question I am...
The Letters of Reverend E C Alston
Part 2 – October 1971
I spent a nostalgic Sunday assembling the Buller/Alston correspondence into some sort of order,...
Gone Fishing: The Consultant’s View – North Uist
SERIES 4, EPISODE 1
Some of you will love the programme, and will have watched BBC2 on Sunday 29th...
How Far Would YOU Go?
“I’d do anything for love... but I wouldn’t do that.” Perhaps Meat Loaf really was an angler? Perhaps he was really asking...
A Cautionary Tale
A month ago Dick and Dave came fishing with me down on the Wye. Two lovely blokes I have known forever and...