Category Archives: talking tackle
FISHING POLICY MESS
The Environment Agency has created a right old mess by trying to wangle a situation where anglers still go after salmon for “fun” but do not actually take them home for the pot. If it works, we have fish being … Continue reading
FISHING ROUND YER – TIME TO PAUSE
by Charlie Webster – October 1, 2017 (pictures of flies to follow later) It’s a gloomy Sunday, following a gloomy last day of the season on the Dart network. I missed it, and I hate to miss it. It is … Continue reading
F.A.O. ANYONE WHO LIKES A FISHING COLUMN
FISHING ROUND YER – NOT CATCHING SALMON
FISHING ROUND YER – NOT CATCHING SALMON A second extract from the diary of Charlie Webster. Another follows shortly. The first one is at http://horrabridgetimes.net/index.php/2017/08/01/fishing-round-yer-new-episode/ Late August, 2017 Where do I go today? It is a matter of weather … Continue reading
FISHING ROUND YER
From http://www.horrabridgetimes.net …. Peal – by Charlie Webster After 58 years fishing for all sorts, from sea bass and salmon to little brown trout, I still find it hard to say what my favourite fish is. But twist my arm … Continue reading
ENJOYING DISAPPOINTMENT
Here in The Shed, our favourite bit about learning to be an angler is the indoor preparation. Our fingers are warm. Our cigars will not go out on a muddy tree stump or disappear into the grass. The project over … Continue reading
shednotes 165: MORE POACHING DEBATE, PLUS THE BIG ONE: FLIES, SPINNERS OR WORMS?
The following essay on fishing has been published at http://horrabridge.org.uk/talking-walkham—updated-61015.html Talking Walkham 2 filed 6.10.15 (Talking Walkham 1 is appended) In the course of asking questions about the Walkham, this column ended up directed to Robert Mountjoy of Crapstone – … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 138: On poachers, peal and growing your own salmon
The Shed has opened a blog line called TALKING WALKHAM, about its local river, and is posting the first one here … Between 1724 and 1727, the author of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, published three volumes of essays called A … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 42: TALKING TACKLE AFTER BEING ALL AT SEA
A Shed reporter recently published the following … by George Edwards My shed is full of old fishing tackle and I always take some on holiday, to get a hook in some kind of water. But I am only buying … Continue reading
SUCH A THING AS TOO MANY POCKETS
When I’m preparing to go fishing, my starting point is to zip up all the pockets in my fishing bag and all the pockets in my fishing jacket, while they are still empty. Left open, they are a temptation to … Continue reading
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