Fallon's Angler

Fallon’s Angler is a quarterly print magazine celebrating the angling story through original, long-form writing from some of the world's finest angling writers.

[Fallon's Angler @fallonsangler]

Issue 37 has gone to press and is available for pre-order.
For this issue, we explore angling targets. The value of incentive, our greatest captures and those moments when we fall short.
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'Those first seconds stretch in a quantum universe. It's over too soon but takes forever. This is when I switch on. This is where I am alive and aware that this is it.'

Richard Meyrick reflects upon the inevitability of finality.

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John Andrews shares more memories from his archive.
Snapshots of 1950's salmon fishing on the River Torridge and the allure of The Black Horse.
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We've introduced a new feature to the 'Back of the Shed' in Issue 37.
Kicking off 'Seven Questions' is Joff Elphick of CREEL Podcast.
If anyone has a thought as to who might answer 7 questions in future issues, we'd love to hear your ideas.
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"We celebrated our new acquisition by not calling it a syndicate but the water of the very recently formed 'Golden Scale Club'."
Chris Yates completes his Homage to Jasper - with imagery courtesy of Mehmet Hassan.
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'The glory days had gone, but 2 or 3 times a season a photograph would pop up featuring an enormous roach against a familiar backdrop.'

Kevin Parr seeks equilibrium in his search for a specimen roach.

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@StuartLing4 Thank you, Stuart!

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Dan Rudgley and Nick Fallowfield-Cooper spent the winter chasing a huge chub and share their diaries in Issue 37.

Do people feel happier to fish with a target in mind or do they prefer to fish for the sake of fishing?

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The boss made it down to the Test shortly before the coarse season's end.

He caught plenty of fish, to a watery soundtrack, including a pike that delivered a poignant symmetry.

Read 'Songlines', by Garrett Fallon, in Issue 37.

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Issue 37 is dropping through letterboxes and seems to be being well received - not least for it's smell!

Here is a peek at the contents page. The usual blend of style and discipline, familiar names and fresh voices.

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To prove there are still some things on Twitter worth sticking around for….

Here’s one of last year’s baby adders. Freshly emerged from its first hibernation, so tiny it could coil up on a 2 pence piece…

Miniature perfection.

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'A few days later, on a sunny afternoon, we went on an expedition - in style.'

Chris Yates continues his homage to Jasper in Issue 36.

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'The tide tells the tale twice a day, washing out the old and flooding in the new. Streets vanish, neighbourhoods change, and everyone loses their bearings.'

John Andrews shares a unique collection of fishing reels....

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'A hyperfocus takes over, I am oblivious to the grains of sand draining from the hourglass, and I cast my lure effortlessly into even the tiniest hole between weeds.'
Garrett Fallon cheats time in order to pike fish with an old friend.
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Enjoy a feature by fishing author and journalist, Dominic Garnett, speaking about his love of fishing and how it can impact your sense of time. This latest issue of @fallonsangler is full of interesting information and views on #fishing.

[Jack Perks @JackPerksPhoto]

If you are a member of group that might be interested in seeing Britains Hidden Fishes do get in touch to arrange! We have screenings this year in Devon & Cornwall. Jeremy Wade narrates this fish documentary that took 2 years to film celebrating the amazing fish in Britain.

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'Overladen with kit and expectations, the wheel returns and our very leisure resembles work.
In our desperation to become more, we are endlessly reduced to less.'
Dominic Garnett ponders his relationship with time and fishing.
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'It's been a revelation. I fish more often now than I ever have and feel reborn as an angler.'
Lovely to have Luke Jennings writing for us again. Wonderful words matched by superb photography from Nick Fallowfield-Cooper.
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'I have no idea if Dad caught anything that day because that was the point he always fell about laughing.'
Kevin Parr comes to terms with his father's passing by fishing in his footsteps...
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Will Millard takes us deep into the Papuan jungle for Issue 36. An adventure where catching a fish is a matter of survival.
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