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It’s good to be fishing back home
Apologies for the radio silence of late, but after best part of three weeks in India chasing mahseer in one of the remotest of Himalayan rivers, it has taken me a while to get back on top of the work...
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Keith Speer – A Life Well Fished
There are people in this wonderful world of fishing who we might not know personally but whose exploits, comments and interviews leave us with the overwhelming impression of not just an angler with...
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Making it Better
Trevor Harrop – Avon Roach Hero – someone who really is making things better for fish and fishing Anglers are legendary for finding things to have a good old moan about. Usually it’s the weather, the...
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This year tench really is my ‘doctor fish’
Apologies for the recent radio silence and I know I promised to write up the Himalayan mahseer trip as my next blog entry but I’m afraid things got overtaken by the backlog that greeted me on returning...
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Operation Leviathan – An important part of improving fishery protection.
There has been a somewhat mixed reaction on social media to our story about sponsored carp angler Myles Gibson receiving a prosecution for fishing where he shouldn’t. He was accused of illegally...
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Goodbye to a Classic Angler
Frank Guttfield, 1939 – 2015 Frank Guttfield with his personal best Thames chub of 8.02 courtesy of Mike Tucker’s back garden Just before the start of this year’s river season fishing lost one of it’s...
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Fishing for Votes ?
Jon Cruddas MP with his first fly caught carp When I first arrived in the House of Commons in 1997 I was impressed at the wide array of All Party Groups that had been established by MPs and Peers who...
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‘Forget about cricket mate and show me some of your Pommie fish’
With the visit of Australian broadcaster and big game fisherman Al McGlashan coinciding with the recent Ashes Test Martin Salter was left wondering how to keep the English flag flying beside the water,...
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In praise of ‘them that do’
The Association of Crucian Anglers – a great bunch who are committed to making things happen. I’ve spent the vast majority of my working life in some sort of representative capacity. In fact this...
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Flooding Lessons: Learned and Ignored
Protecting the floodplain and managing river catchments from source to sea will do more to alleviate flood risk than dredging can ever achieve At a time when communities across Britain are mopping up...
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Battling for Bass
Welsh bass guide Matt Powell with the sort of fish that should be commonplace around our shores if it wasn’t for commercial overfishing As someone who lists among his interests fishing, the environment...
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Back at it Down Under
A nice Aussie salmon from Sydney Harbour got Martin off the mark on his latest trip Down Under Australia has become a second home to me of late and right now I’m on my fifth visit in seven years. I’m...
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Fisheries Facts and the EU
Richard Benyon MP was made a parliamentary bass champion by the Angling Trust for his work in trying to prevent over fishing – now he has a few hard truths for those arguing that our fisheries would be...
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Autumn Gold
I love this time of year. The colours changing with the season, the nip in the air and the fish on the munch before the really cold weather moves in and food becomes scarce. It’s surprising therefore,...
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Bass Battles
C An Irish bass is returned to fight another day. In Ireland no netting is allowed for bass – could the same be about to happen in the rest of Europe? Things are certainly hotting up in the battle to...
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A Tasty Silver Lady and a Top Ten of Sorts
A freezing day on the Frome didn’t deter the ‘Silver Ladies’ but the gap between bites gave plenty of time to reflect on those developments that have helped us keep on catching the fish we love. I must...
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On the Water with the Angling Trust (Part Two)
Now the river Close Season is here most coarse fishing rods will be put away for a few weeks at least. It’s a good time to reflect and look back at some of the angling highlights of the past nine...
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Something of a Rivers Fest
Apologies for the radio silence of late but it’s been a somewhat crazy summer and I’ve simply not found the time to update this blog. In July I was invited to speak at a fisheries conference in...
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In praise of Old Father Thames and the ‘magic’ bean’
It must be nearly ten years ago that various ‘superstar anglers’ began telling us that river fishing in Britain was finished and we should all go and fish in Thailand or in a fenced off safari park...
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As the Close Season Looms…
So how was your river season this backend? Unless you lived somewhere with a benign micro climate I’ll wager ‘a pound to a pinch’ that it’s not been one of the best. I usually love the period from Xmas...
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