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World Fishing & Aquaculture - Researchers discover new crayfish disease

BBC One - The Great British Year Hi Everyone, Not sure if you’ve managed to catch any of these now showing on the BBC but if you get a chance to catch up on iPlayer then I heartily recommend them. Firstly, the standard of photography is astounding but the closing section to these...

Hi all Something I found very useful last season was to pre-tie a multitude of hooklengths (mostly to nylon but also to coated braid). Nothing revolutionary in that obviously :) but a nice addition to this process was to use glassine envelopes to store them in. Glassine - Wikipedia, the...

With the crayfish season almost upon us I'm hoping for a double this year. 10 oz Can't wait :)

Hi I had my first foray at the riverside trotting with a centre pin yesterday. Having purchased the ubiquitous Marco Cortesi (having been validated as a good starter pin for those wishing to see if a pin is for them!) I duely spent a few weekends flicking a float across the lawn in an...

Ok, A bit of fun now... lighten things up a bit here :) Actually, deadly serious as a good cup of riverside tea is not something to joke about. If, like me, you get to the point where you are really desperate for a fresh cuppa and the contents of your flask are over 7 hours old and not...

Hi everyone I've found a small stretch of river which has heavy growth of underwater reed. This isn't the usual delicate streamer weed stuff you'd see on the Avon etc. but a dense underwater reed bed which looks like thick grass. There are what look like small clearings in the reed but as...