Country sights and sounds: When I wrote of pike preying on frogs I was not advocating the use of the latter, dead or alive, to entice these or any other fish to the hook. To the contrary, I agree entirely with another writing angler who says ‘No man who was ever a boy could use a frog as bait’. The sense of wonder we felt when we found our first frog at the edge of that damp meadow should stay with us forever.
Mayo News, 13/03/12. Read the article ‘The false economy of fishing early-season trout‘.
