Fishing into darkness has never been more popular, and this is largely down to the availability of great headtorches. These not only keep you safe and help you re-bait or change a lure, but they are also increasingly used for sight fishing too. The problem with choice though, is that it is easy to end up with the wrong one. That’s why we asked Rob Mainwaring of Mainwaring’s Angling Centre in Swansea to give us his favourites

Short days, falling leaves, time for a new light. We've tested six to help show you the way...

On its top setting, the compact Micro 950 provides abundant illumination with a good spread of light. Although the unit itself is reasonably low in weight, the hefty mount makes up about a quarter of

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A larger light with a 1,000-lumen output, the Oxford Ultratorch CL1000 provides good illumination for unlit roads, although the peak-output runtime is quite short at one hour and 15 minutes. It clips

This is a newer option from Lezyne but has a similar wide, flattened body to their other lights, which offer outputs from 500 to 1,200 lumens. All have an integrated rubber-strap mount bolted to their