Age hasn’t made me a worse barbel angler, but it’s changed what I actually do on the bank, sometimes for the better.

Some widely-repeated fishing advice turns out to be wrong, or at least far less universal than it’s presented. Here are five I fell for.

Club match turnouts are down almost everywhere. Here’s what I think is actually happening, and why I’m not as worried as some.

A season of Pembrokeshire rock mark bass fishing, and what actually produced fish versus what I expected to.

Watching dozens of anglers cast to the same fish taught me more about presentation than years of fishing for myself ever did.

A frustrating winter on the Broads forced me to rethink everything I thought I knew about static deadbaiting.

A season of blanking on heavily-boilied waters taught me something most carp anglers don’t want to hear.