Hurry! Sportfish Fly Gear 10% Reduction Sale Ends Today!

If you're in the market for some new fly gear, Sportfish might just have what you're looking for.

Cartoon Caption Competition – No2

Here's another cartoon - this time from 'All Beer & Boilies' (Medlar Press) There's a load of possibilities - so get thinking and give us your caption.

New! Cartoon Caption Competition!

A fresh cartoon from the editor's own fair hand will appear most days for 3 months. Some will be real head-scratchers but others will immediately bear the fruit of FM readers' chuckle-cells. HERE'S NO.2!!

Fishing for Votes?

They might not always do what we want them to do but it's heartening to see our MPs getting down and dirty on the riverbank. Former Parliamentarian, Martin Salter, describes a pleasant day out in Berkshire with friends.

A Word from the Editor

One of the many down-sides to text messages and e-mail is its inability to convey most writers' true meaning, and even the most articulate wordsmiths need to check their words for perilous punctuation errors before committing their message to cyber-space (or wherever it goes) The architects of our new media acknowledged this years ago with the introduction of the 'emoticon' - a device intended to compensate for the shortcomings of a brief message and, indeed, to speed things up a bit.

Just HOW long is 'shelf-life'?

Chris Wilson (AKA 'Laguna') gives us the benefit of his knowledge and expertise in the field of bait ingredients

Hook a Great Bargain at Sportfish!

Those nice people in Winforton, Hereford, are currently having a CLEARANCE SALE of selected coarse fishing tackle items offering 35% discount and FREE POSTAGE UK mainland.

Great value offer from Sportfish

School holidays just seem to go on forever and keeping the kids active and entertained throughout the duration can be challenging enough, without everything else us parents are expected to do!