Diaries

Sean Meeghan explains his approach to catching barbel successfully and consistently and compares his style to that of others.

For this report, Scott and Samantha visit a very English-style carp lake in Brittany and have some great catches.

Cliff Hatton asks: "Have you ever said something, or done something so profoundly stupid, deceitful or nasty, that the memory will never entirely leave you alone? Something about which you feel so bad - twenty, thirty, forty years on - that you still experience the blood-rush of embarrassment to the face and the squirm-inducing uneasiness of shame?"

On a hot summer's evening what better than to finish the day with a monster barbel on the end of your line? Jeff explains.

Sean Meeghan tells of his thrilling opening of the river season, but it starts not quite where you would expect it to.

What is it about fish and rain? Or, more specifically, what is it about non-fishers who think you always catch more fish when it's raining?

In this age when many people only do things to help themselves, Richard Farrow and Cakey get together and organise a Fish-in to round off the season of Charity auctions on FM.

For the third year running Dave Basset makes the winning bid for a day's fishing with FM's Editor Emeritus Graham Marsden. This year it was a day fishing the margin pole for carp.

In the background we hear the classic opening notes to Air on a G String and... action!

For the love of dog. A forgetful trip to the Blue Pool revolves around a dogs dinner.