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https://www.fishandfly.com/all-about-flavours/ https://www.fishandfly.com/all-about-flavours/#respond <![CDATA[Dave Coster]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:25:47 +0000 <![CDATA[Coarse Fishing]]> <![CDATA[Dave Coster]]> <![CDATA[Features]]> <![CDATA[Headline]]> <![CDATA[Headlines]]> <![CDATA[How To]]> <![CDATA[Match Fishing]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Tackle & Technique]]> <![CDATA[Tips]]> https://www.fishingmagic.com/?p=35252 <![CDATA[ MAGIC FORMULAS Going back to my early club days, I remember an...

It is with much sadness that my time on the Thomas Turner websites has drawn to a close. For me it has been a fascinating adventure and I’m eternally grateful to the Hewitt family for making it happen. It hasn’t all been good news. Like many who experience web vitriol from time to time, I wonder where it comes from, why detractors bother, why they feel the right to be abusive.

The Wild Trout Trust annual fundraising auction takes place 18-27 March on the WTT’s own auction website. With 366 Lots, this is their biggest ever auction. Most of the Lots are fishing days – not only trout, but coarse, salmon and sea fishing too. There is a handy map that allows you to search for fishing days close to home or to help plan a trip away.

The Wild Trout Trust annual fundraising auction takes place 18-27 March on the WTT’s own auction website. With 366 Lots, this is their biggest ever auction. Most of the Lots are fishing days – not only trout, but coarse, salmon and sea fishing too. There is a handy map that allows you to search for fishing days close to home or to help plan a trip away.

Season’s End The end of another season of angling has drawn to a close. It’s a time of the year I enjoy, a rest, a chance to clean a very messy tackle shed, and to reflect. I slipped out for one final outing in the glorious weather on March 14th. A hard day, but a few pretty pike and a pub lunch made me content. It wasn’t a bad ending, I managed to put in a little bit of time through the final weeks of the season, to say it paid off would be an understatement.

Ten Minutes of Magic It was time for a day out that I look forward to every year. A visit from Kevin and Ken. I’m joined each winter by the guys, who make the journey up to visit me in search of a big perch. Last year proved challenging, with a few fish up to low twos. However, this year conditions were perfect. We decided to meet in darkness, preparing the boat, ready for a long motor towards the first spot. As daylight broke we set our course, through freezing mist and icy wind.

Over the past year, I have frequently highlighted the artists of one sort or another operating around the angling scene. I have also from time to time profiled a particular angler who deserves recognition of a special kind, in my view, of course. Today, I am talking about Rob Olsen, who amply fits both criteria. He is a man who can fish sublimely and who can write, photograph, draw, and paint everything about fishing with equal magic.

The Girls Get It Done Having a free day, I decided to give some friends a call. I’ve been quite busy recently and struggled to find free time. Unfortunately, that meant I’d neglected a few good friends. It was time to make up for my absence. After a catch up with my fenland pals Adele and Adele (Del) we decided to get together and try to tick off a target fish… The magical 2lb perch. DAY ONE With an absent Del, Adele and I decided to tackle some local waters.

These pictures from Monday have raised eyebrows amongst my friends, and indeed are impressive in their biblical, dawn-of-time way. Of course, depressingly, they indicate my fishing has ground to a halt, but less selfishly, worries about riverside residents take precedence. As do questions and worries about the floods themselves. Why does the Wye rise so fast and drop so comparatively slowly? That’s something I have never quite got my tiny brain around.

In nearly all ways this letter speaks for itself. Buller’s “The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike” was published first in 1979, and this correspondence ended up being quoted on pages 180 and 181 of the book, the entry for the Deene Park Lake Pike, a 42 pound monster, shot by an estate keeper in or around 1760. By an equally mammoth coincidence, Alston appears to have owned the gun that might have killed the very pike in question.