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...

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...

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...

    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 have been fortunate enough to have fished some of the most exciting trout locations both in the UK and further afield. The wind swept wilderness of Orkney and...

There is nowhere on earth quite like New Zealand, and nowhere in my experience as exciting, as dramatic and as compelling a place to fish for trout as the rivers...