Roger Standen

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Tench In Pits And Drains

I believe I have mentioned it before, tench are one of my favourite species and I enjoy catching them of whatever size. Like carp, they
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Bream For A Change

It has to be said that bream are not my favourite species and I rarely fish for them, but all are sweet, so they say, ...
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Small Waters

I must admit that in recent years for the most part, I have given up fishing small waters, concentrating instead on large gravel pits for ...
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Carp Fishing In Winter

Carp fishing in winter can be somewhat of a daunting prospect and when Dick Walker wrote his Still Water Angling back in the fifties they ...
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Chub In The Cold

We are now coming to the end of the worst winter I can remember for fishing the rivers. The rivers, for the most part, have ...
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My Way With Pike

I first started fishing for pike over 40 years ago on the Wallers Haven with a huge green and red pike bung that was similar ...
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Roach

If all the stories are to he believed, 2lb roach are as numerous as l0lb carp and believe me, most waters that hold carp have ...
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Barbel

With all those reports of barbel from the Sussex Ouse I was tempted to give it a try and did, but unsuccessfully, for while more ...
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Marshland Carp

I have fished the marshes of the Pevensey levels and the Romney Marsh since the early fifties and remember the Wallers Haven when it used ...
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Autumn Perch

Although I have caught perch during every month of the old coarse fishing season, my favourite time of the year is the autumn. As the ...
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Roger Standen Roger Standen, an experienced fisherman with many years of angling under his belt, is the editor of Freshwater Informer, a free monthly publication aimed at freshwater anglers in the south-east region of England.