Holy island bass

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Today’s staunch game-fisher has good reason to thank yesterday’s stolid coarse angler, writes Mike Handyside

Dave Lewis explains how an aborted bass fishing trip resulted in discovering a new method for taming specimen pollack from deep-water shore marks

I reckon that taking a break from specimen-hunting to go pleasure fishing is a tonic for the soul

Wayne Thomas looks back at some of the classic lures of yesteryear and asks whether modern lure design and technology is more about catching anglers than fish

Rob Hardy joins members of Bishop Auckland & District Angling Club for a nocturnal pursuit of the River Wear’s monster sea-trout