From the Bank

Autumn weather swings more than any other season and it moves fish. Here is what I pay attention to, what I ignore, and how to pick a day worth taking off work for.

For a few weeks every autumn, falling leaves make some swims unfishable and change what happens on the bottom. Here is how to work around it and why it affects where fish feed.

The first autumn floods rearrange a river and reset where the fish live. Here is how to read the changes, why your summer swims may be finished, and what to look for instead.

Autumn changes what fish want and what they will travel for. Here is what earns a place in my bag from September onwards, what comes out, and why oil content starts to matter.

River trout seasons are closing by October, but stillwater trout fishing can be some of the best of the year if you know where to go.

Where bait fishing for trout is permitted, here’s my honest ranking of what actually produces, based on years of fishing the day-ticket waters that allow it.

People want a secret hack. The real answer is less exciting but far more useful, and it’s taken me years to fully trust it.

Certain conditions consistently produce my best sessions – here’s the pattern I’ve come to trust and plan trips around.

A genuinely miserable blank taught me more about reading conditions than most of my good sessions combined.

Fish rely on smell more than most anglers appreciate – here’s what actually seems to work and why, based on what I’ve seen work over the years.