The river fishing season is now in full swing. To ensure you have the most successful fishing sessions, here are some of the most effective river fishing tips to implement on your next trip. NEED A ...

IN ORDER TO TAME THESE POWERFUL FISH, YOU'LL NEED THE BEST BARBEL FISHING REELS. Barbel are a species that can be caught ...

A river rising a foot an hour. Cold water off cold land made colder by a bitingly cold wind. A bleak prospect indeed but my old pal Anthony Butterworth stuck with it, a model of grit and graft. We ...

MIDNIGHT fishing by the light of a full moon with a warm south-westerly wind and low pressure are perfect conditions for catching big barbel, says Ian Wilkinson, a Durham toolmaker from Trimdon Grange ...

BARBEL, a type of bottom-feeding catfish, is renowned for being terrible-tasting, but many anglers love to catch them because of the massive fight they put up once the hook is set. The bait used to ...

Wildlife sometimes has its own way of keeping things interesting. In the human world, it often becomes such a rush, that we forget how to appreciate the acts of survival in the animal kingdom. This ...

GARY Swaine is an old hand when it comes to catching barbel and his latest trip to the river at Llandaff resulted in one that weighed 11lb. GARY Swaine is an old hand when it comes to catching barbel ...

GREENMAN ace Richard Brewer topped a good turnout for the midweek Pitchcroft match with a solitary barbel from a peg on the bend. Competitors found the river difficult which suited the feeder anglers ...

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