Dave’s diaries

Dick Waters recalls moments that make the hairs stand on the back of your neck

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

David Mitchell travels through the night to experience Cornwall’s epic reef fishing

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

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

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