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...
The entire concept of going fishing for pleasure at this time of the year is pretty much out of people's minds. The commercial operators can and do take advantage of anything that remotely resembles a...
Here we are with about eight percent of the year already gone. Time really does fly when you are having fun or are otherwise distracted from more pleasurable pursuits. If fishing is the objective, the...
The winter malaise has taken firm hold now, so much so that it has progressed to the point that we don't even notice some of the calm, sunny and particularly pretty days that punctuate the months of J...
