Shaped for attack, demonised and feared, the pike is written into the history of fishing as a savage cannibal of immense appetites. Medieval in appearance, with its marbled flank of...

I have always liked bridges, especially stone built arch bridges and in particular those that span rivers. I often wonder how much time and effort would have gone into their...

I have been very fortunate. Over the past eleven months I have spent 23 days fishing six different Scottish rivers for salmon. I like fishing blocks of three days on...

It is still very early into the new season and the River Wylie is still half asleep and not yet disturbed by the clumsy footfall of anglers, clowning dogs and...

  Spring Salmon fishing can test your mettle, your technique and your circulation. A recent few days on the Tay confirmed all that I knew about fishing for Spring Salmon....

It is dusk and I am trying to perfect the art of standing still. Staying motionless is never easy at the best of times, but with the sun becoming lower...

A 10-foot stick with a line on the end. Simple. And at the end of the line is a hook, and that hook has been sharpened on glass. That’s it....

    I only picked up a salmon rod about 10 years ago and having bought my first rod a 14 foot Sage TCR weight 9/10, I was advised to...

The River Frome is a special river rightly famed for the size of its Grayling and home to fabulous wild brown trout. In its pristine chalk stream state, it resembles...

I like Barbel fishing. I am just not very successful at it. I came late to Coarse fishing and having spent most of my life fly fishing for Trout and...