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Chris Tarrant describes a week on the Varzuga and finds amazing and superlative salmon fishing
Remember temperatures may go up or down. This warning, slightly changed, comes at the beginning of most adverts pertaining to investment and a week's fishing in Russia can be considered an investment in terms of memories. The summer comes so quickly that one moment the snow can be swirling around your feet and the next you could be in shirtsleeves, bathing in warm sunshine.
Paul Whitehouse has a ball with bonefish on Los Roques
We landed on El Gran Roque to be greeted by the head Guide Walter Ehrlich and his team and from the 'airport' we just walked (there are no cars which is a real and welcome novelty in the world these days) to our new home for the week; the beautifully appointed and cool Malibu Posada.
Two grand slams in one day from one skiff in the extraordinary Jardines De La Reina
Jack Simpson of Simpson's of Turnford, a man who has fished the world many times over, describes his crowning saltwater moment.
Tom Fort goes to Chile and finds a simply awesome destination
Memories of Chilean Patagonia: snow-dabbed mountains, thick forest, wide seas of tawny pampas, horsemen in ponchos and leather leggings clip-clopping homewards as the sun sank, crystal rivers to set a fisherman's heart thumping, a brown trout appearing from the depths, mouth open, intent on the fat, hairy size 8 grasshopper bouncing over the ripples, a rod bent against a blue sky with harriers wheeling on the thermals.
John Warburton-Lee finds that wilderness fishing cannot get any better than in Alaska
Fishing has been part of the Alaskan way of life since the first humans made their way across the Bering land bridge 15,000 years ago. Alaska's native people harvest fish using techniques handed down through the generations.
Express trains on the end of a fly rod make blue water fishing something that we should all try
Peter Gibson: Formerly of Farlows of Pall Mall and now of Hardy's of Adnwick, Pete has fished the world and reports on his first bluewater experience.
Sir Max Hastings explains why booking Irish fishing through Roxtons make so much sense
Irish fish are as vulnerable as everyone elses to the familiar pressures on Atlantic salmon, poaching not least among them. But there is some wonderfully entertaining sport to be had, amid peerless natural settings, if you catch the right water on the right day.
Jeremy Paxman day dreams about his year as a fisherman
Time of course, is the one thing that most of us do not have. Or rather, there seems a pretty iron rule. When you have the time to go fishing, you don't have the money. And when you have the money, you don't have the time. So, let's dream about the perfect year.