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,...
Lost Treasures of the Tackle Shed
The most recent of the Thomas Turner newsletters really struck a chord with me. There advertised was a first edition of Drop Me...
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...
Passion for… Wensum Roach
How strange. After some of the best, gruelling months on the Wye I have known, with some extraordinary barbel for that river,...
Passion for Barbel… Touch Legering Thoughts
A couple of days back I mentioned The Big Fish Scene compiled by Frank Guttfield back in 1978. I was especially interested...
Lure Fishing with Robbie Northman #38
Night Time – Bite Time
We're back at that time of year where the days seem unsettlingly short....
Packham and his Platform
As a one-time professional historian, I had sympathy for Huw Edwards this week for being roundly censored by his employer, the BBC....
Passion for Barbel… Touch Legering Tweaks
It is a joy to be using TL again, after a good few years of relying on the tip. The take, felt...
Passion For Barbel… The Winter Wolves are Howling
The third frost in succession. 7 degrees air temperature at 4.00pm yesterday when I was baiting up. November ticking away remorselessly. The...
