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...
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...
The Letters of Reverend E C Alston
Part 1
I assume that one of the pleasures of collecting, or even handling, an item of vintage fishing...
Passion for Pure Rivers
On the 31st October The Sunday Times carried nigh on a full page review of the campaigning work carried out by Feargal Sharkey. “Sharkey’s circling...
Passion for Barbel… In Wild Waters
Yesterday, the 27th October, Enoka caught her first Wye double-figure barbel. She wouldn’t weigh it, but I’m guessing 11 pounds, give or...
Weighing It All Up
A friend has just sent me a veiled diatribe in a recently published book. In it, although I am not named personally,...
