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Featured · Nº 01
This week's captures.
Hand-picked stories from the water — techniques, long reads, and the anglers shaping the season.
Bait · France
Why French lakes demand a different recipe.
Profile · Interview
A night with the angler who refused to stop.
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Anglers · Nº 02
Every angler has a story. Now they have a page.
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Featured · Gold
James Holloway
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Bait Science
The chemistry of a French recipe — why saturation changes everything.
How soluble amino acids and nut flours behave differently in warm-water venues.
Water Craft
Reading weed beds in October: what the carp are telling us.
A patient observation on how autumn weed die-off reshapes every feeding pattern.
Travel · France
Etang du Grand Pré — twenty years of a Normandy water.
A long-read portrait of one of France's most quietly celebrated specimen waters.
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