Anyone who is a regular viewer of fishing programmes on the satellite channels will know Matt Hayes almost as well as they know themselves. Having appeared in over 200 television programmes, Matt has recently become a familiar face on terrestrial television too – acting as a judge on BBC2’s Earth’s Wildest Waters – The Big …
Anyone who is a regular viewer of fishing programmes on the satellite channels will know Mick Brown almost as well as they know Matt Hayes. Mick has appeared in more than 80 television programmes – the vast majority alongside Matt. As a duo, they brought us The Great (and Greater) Rod Race, Wet Nets, and …
The last episode of the recent BBC2 series Earth’s Wildest Waters – The Big Fish, found the three finalists in Zambia, south-central Africa, where they tackled the mighty Zambezi River. The target species was the tiger fish (Hydrocynus Vittatus), a fearsome looking fish with teeth so prominent that resident judge Matt Hayes compared its dentistry …
Ah, the late seventies…..a time when music was real, man…. The Sex Pistols were busting the establishment with Never Mind the Bollocks.., The Clash were fighting the law, and out of Brighton came The Piranhas – a ska band whose cover of Tom Hark had people shimmying around disco halls right across the country. Despite …
Of the 8 million or so different fishing series that have appeared on satellite channels over the past 20 years (as has been highlighted previously, Fishpool is an angler – and therefore prone to occasional bout of hyperbole), one of the very best has to be The Great Rod Race. The premise for the series …
Widely regarded as one of the finest angling writers of his generation, Dominic Garnett must have felt a little directionless of late. The publication of Fallon’s Angler Issue 5 sees Garnett reaching the pinnacle of his career. As contributor to five consecutive issues of Mighty Mr Fallon’s meteoric manuscripts (Fishpool is still angling for that …
If we ignore the coastline paradox (which isn’t easy because Fishpool does enjoy pondering a paradox), then Norway has the seventh longest coastline of all the countries in the world – only a smidgeon shorter than that of Australia. And if more than 16,000 miles of coast wasn’t enough for the angler, Norway’s rivers also …
Aaahhhh – all together now! – ‘Zambezi, Zambezi, Zambezi, Zam, I’m on me way,’ – who could forget such timeless lyrics? Written by Nico Carstons and covered by a host of artists such as Acker Bilk, Chet Atkins and (most memorably for Fishpool, at least) The Piranhas, ‘Zambezi’ must be one of the most infuriatingly catchy …
Fishpool trod the banks of a lowland river recently, hoping to catch a nice chub. Sadly, not a bite was had, and this was due in part to one of the biggest tangles in the history of angling. Of course, it wasn’t Fishpool who got in a fix, but his or her angling companion for …
Back when Fishpool was a mere sprat, and the world was my oyster – I rather fancied myself as a computer programmer. Computers were taking the world by storm and my folks managed to pick up an almost new BBC Model B – with a whopping 32K memory. Fishpool thought how fabulous it would be …
