Grayling on the fly is a winter pursuit that starts properly in autumn. Here is how to get a nymph down to them, why hot spots work, and how to read a run before you fish it.

The final weeks of the stillwater season produce big, hard-fighting fish in cooling water. Here is how the fish behave differently at the back end and how to adjust depth, pace and expectations.

When the crane flies come off in September, stillwater trout lose all caution. Here is how to fish a daddy properly, why the wind matters, and the mistake that costs most people fish.

From late summer the biggest reservoir trout switch onto fry and become catchable in a way they are not the rest of the year. Here is how to spot fry feeders and what to put in front of them.

Cod move back within range of the shore as the water cools, and autumn is when the season starts. Here is what conditions bring them in, which marks produce and the baits that get results.

Bass fishing peaks in autumn as the fish feed hard before moving offshore. Here is how the marks change, why rough weather helps, and what I fish through September to November.

Big roach are an autumn and winter fish, and September is when they start to become catchable. Here is how to sort the better fish from the small ones and where they hold as the water cools.

Tench fishing is treated as a spring and summer game, but autumn produces some of the heaviest fish of the year. Here is what changes as they go off the feed and how to catch them before they do.

Bream shoal tightly in autumn and feed heavily, which makes them findable and catchable in numbers. Here is how to locate a shoal, how much to feed, and why patience beats moving.