.. the long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools? The only secret about these pools is th…

- Tony Bishop

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

- Tony Bishop

Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make tha…

- Tony Bishop

Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to…

- Tony Bishop

Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you…

- Tony Bishop

If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populati…

- Tony Bishop

Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get ho…

- Tony Bishop

If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior,…

- Tony Bishop

How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare f…

- Tony Bishop