Features

Sean Meeghan opens his barbel account on the Rivers Nidd and Swale and offers some very interesting thoughts on bait.

Hugo Curgudgeon muses about his boyhood hero on the banks of a river

We are delighted to be able to offer FishingMagic browsers the exclusive opportunity to read the introduction to Mark Wintle's forthcoming book 'Big Roach'

We are delighted that Graham Marsden is allowing us to print an extract - the Introduction - from his long-awaited new book 'Angling Essays'

There are few finer exponents of the art of trotting than Bob James and FishingMagic caught up with the legend himself down on the River Wye for a masterclass...

Rod Sturdy is concerned by the loss of salmon fishing water in Scotland to rafters and urges anglers to act before it happens again...and again...

In Welchy's Weighs In this month Ian gets his tackle out and takes a long hard look and wonders if others should be doing the same...

Geoff Maynard travels back to his hippy roots and spends a night in Bangkok with a Bad Boy and a fly rod!

The eagerly anticipated new bible of fly fishing for Atlantic Salmon has at last arrived with us in the UK. Atlantic Salmon Magic and it's accompanying title - 100 Best Flies for Atlantic Salmon have been written and researched by acclaimed North American salmon fisher and spey caster Topher Browne.

Welchy has a serious rant about one of his least favourite baits and blames the humble oily pellet for many of the ills in angling today from poor winter barbel fishing to the death of originality... but are they REALLY that bad?