Andy Scholey: I fish, therefore, I am…

    René Descartes Did you know that the legendary philosopher, René Descartes, was a keen angler? I didn’t either. I was amazed; I didn’t know he was...

Martin Salter: Too much of a good thing!

It’s hard to believe that only a few months ago a fair proportion of my working hours for the Angling Trust was taken up...

It ain’t all wine and roses…

Tony, I’ve been patiently awaiting your summary of the Bisterne trip but to no avail. I have decided therefore to bore you with an...

AAAAAAAAAAAH !!!!

I try and do my bit for the environment. My house is full of those curly lights that take an eternity to warm up...

Food for Thought?

After fishing all night on one of my club gravel-pits in Essex, the dawn chorus back then was indescribably beautiful and very loud. Tens...hundreds...

Oh, for some peace…

I hadn’t been fishing more than twenty minutes when my head was turned by the sound of female giggling. Such a phenomenon is rare...

Martin Salter: Completing the Circle.

  I suspect we can all recall when our fishing lives first began. I don’t necessarily mean that first little roach or perch, there are...

‘Artifishal’ – a compelling – but flawed – explanation from Patagonia Films…

Artifishal :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdNJ0JAwT7I This film was funded by a company called Patagonia, named for a region of South America famous for the best sea-trout rivers...