Rod Sturdy: Bass – again!

Make no mistake, the bass is an iconic, highly predatory species which illustrates very well the simple fact that recreational sea fishing is worth...

Laguna Fishing Products December Caption Competition

We live in curious times. Blokes marrying blokes, women marrying women, women marrying women who identify as blokes, blokes who identify as attack-helicopters and...

Rotting weed – don’t it get on your wick?

It is almost December as I write and the carping-bug won’t have waned among those who just can’t get enough of the species. I...

Let’s hear it for ol’ Father Thames!

It must be nearly ten years ago that various ‘superstar anglers’ began telling us that river fishing in Britain was finished and we should...

Major Theft of Angling Collectibles: can you help in their recovery?

The Berkshire based Edward Barder Rod Company has issued an appeal for information which might lead to the recovery of an irreplaceable collection of...

It’s Culture Time!

Time for a little culture, methinks; well...of a sort. You might like to read the following with a Tommy Cooper voice - or you...

David Attenborough says world must act now on plastic after witnessing its impacts filming...

  From The Independent. The scourge of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans must be tackled, Sir David Attenborough said as he launched the second series...

Pulling Against Fish by Leighton McDonnell

Our thoughts on Pulling Against Fish by Leighton McDonnell published by Little Egret Press. They Say "Without a doubt Leighton McDonnell is one of the most successful...