Angling is a sport that has produced some exceptional writers. Ernest Hemmingway transported us to the azure blue waters of Cuba and an epic battle with that mighty marlin in Old Man and the Sea....
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2024/03/25/well-that-was-a-wet-one/
I guess like many anglers with 50 plus years in the sport, I’m not alone in finding it increasingly difficult to improve on those much sought after personal bests when it comes to our favourite...
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2023/12/11/the-best-is-yet-to-come/
I guess like most lifelong and marginally obsessed anglers – when we aren’t actually fishing, preparing to go fishing or talking to our mates (boring our families) about fishing – we fill i...
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2023/11/25/christmas-fishing-books-for-2023/
There are very few places in the world where destination anglers, in search of bucket list fishing, could be happily accompanied by their non-fishing wives or partners but I’ve just returned fr...
I suppose I’m as guilty as any angling writer of giving the impression that my fishing trips are a more or less constant procession of successful exploits with reel singing action and happy, sm...
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2023/09/01/when-it-all-goes-wrong/
I always look forward to the last couple of weeks of the river coarse fishing season. The fish are in prime condition, the days are getting longer and are usually a bit warmer. But not this year....
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2023/03/08/back-end-beauties/
Growing up on the fringes of West London, coarse fishing was always going to shape my development as an angler and to this day it remains my first love. But following my retirement in 2010 after ...
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2022/12/28/saltwater-spectaculars-to-end-the-year/
Forget the false autumn of a few weeks ago with sunburnt leaves and parched lawns. After a long period of unseasonably warm and dry weather the real thing looks to have finally arrived with falli...
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2022/11/15/time-to-say-goodbye-to-the-longest-summer/
Mullet are bastards! The rain is stair-rodding its way across the lagoon at 45 degrees on fiercesome Atlantic wind. Today the mullet are proving impossible to find, which makes a change from find...
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2022/08/12/mullet-are-bastards/
I figured it was probably a good time to look back on what has been a pretty decent start to my fishing season. With coarse fishing in most stillwaters and canals allowed all year round these day...
https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2022/07/02/red-letter-days-to-start-the-season/