Techniques

Chub will eat cheese, bread, worms, slugs and lumps of luncheon meat. That freedom is exactly why anglers get chub bait wrong.

Perch are predators with an obvious favourite food, and most anglers overcomplicate it. Here is the short list that actually catches them.

Boilies get all the marketing. Here is my honest ranking of what actually catches carp in UK waters, and when I would use each one.

Method feeder tactics are built for carp and bream, not trout – so why does it produce so reliably on the right stocked stillwater?

It doesn’t fit the fly-fishing culture around trout, but float fishing for stocked trout is a genuinely accessible, underrated approach.

Fly fishing is my first love, but spinning has genuinely earned its place in my trout fishing on the right water and the right day.

Zander fishing used to mean deadbaiting for me. A slow shift to lure fishing changed both my catch rate and how much I enjoy targeting them.

A dedicated season chasing specimen roach taught me that less really is more when it comes to bait and feed.