Here it is the end of April: plenty of sunshine, refreshing breezes and it almost looks like the showers have come and gone and high summer cannot be too far away.
It all paints a pretty picture but w...
The weather continues to improve and spring fever is starting to affect more and more anglers. What is lacking is the real driving force of this avocation and that is an influx of fish. What is needed...
It is a bit like magic how right after the Easter holiday, summer appears. The seas are calm and bright blue, the air is less than usually humid and the flowers are bursting out everywhere. If you don...
With Good Friday now behind us and April ahead of us, it is time to get serious about angling prospects. The belief that the season starts in May is largely fictitious, going back to a marketing ploy ...
After roaring in like a lion, can we expect the last week or so of March to depart in a meek, lamb-like fashion? And then can summer be far behind? Then it will be time to fish and, all too often, tha...
Do not be deluded. A brief span of fine weather does not constitute the start of summer or even of spring, for that matter. There are gusty days ahead and the fishing opportunities will be limited, bu...
You have to wonder where all this weather is coming from. Forget global warming, everybody seems to be freezing. The US East Coast has had more snow this year that in almost a century; the UK has had ...
Could it be that the worst is over? After all, Monday is the start of a whole new month with one-sixth of the year gone already. Now, in most people's minds, March tends to be a blustery month but wha...
Now you know what the old-timers meant when they said that winters were different back in the day. This present one is a real throwback to times when wood was collected for fireplaces, space heaters (...
This past week was a bit much. Talk about a good, old-fashioned February; cold, wet and outrageously windy. So much so that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that the fishing effort this w...
