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Heading over to Kerry on Sunday for a guiding trip
Does time go faster the older you get? It seems like only yesterday that I was driving back from Kerry last October and already looking forward to right now when I head over there again. I try hard to...
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First day with our clients out here in Kerry - about as calm and clear and...
The fishing yesterday wasn’t remotely epic, but there are many, many things I love about spending time in Kerry and being able to do this guiding work with John Quinlan - and the fact that almost...
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Where on earth would we be without soft plastics? (and a goodbye to our first...
If there is one thing that this guiding work does it is to concentrate your mind on what works and then of course the bits and pieces of gear that don’t work so well - like the not cheap Century lure...
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Great to be home, but it’s always hard to leave Kerry
I crawled into bed at about 3.30am this morning after a 500 mile drive back from Kerry, and when my wife’s alarm clock went off at 6.30am I must admit that for a while I wasn’t quite sure I was. Damn...
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The tug is the drug - when you haven’t fished for a couple of weeks, holy cow...
I love the co-guiding work I do over in Kerry with John Quinlan, and not fishing while you’re guiding was never going to be a problem for me. Most of the more exotic trips I have been on for part of my...
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How many bass anglers deliberately target “proper” surf conditions with...
Don’t tell him this because I don’t want to embarrass the bloke, but getting to spend time with John Quinlan as part of this co-guiding work we do together is one of the reasons for the whole...
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I have finally gone and fallen in (shore fishing) love with the 25g Offshore...
So you know, and I have said this plenty of times before on here - I do some work with Fiiish over in France, but they are not paying me to promote their gear for them, indeed their very “Frenchness”...
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I’m starting to look around for a longer, more powerful lure rod for heavier...
Following on from my surf fishing based blog post from Weds last week, and then my post from a few days ago, well my brain is churning away with any number of bass fishing related things (as usual!) -...
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We did some RNLI fishing safety related filming on the north Cornwall coast...
At 8am on Wednesday morning, a bunch of us met at the Padstow lifeboat station and then we headed just down the coast to Porthcothan where the aim was to do a load more shore fishing safety related...
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Vision Ikon Guiding Stockingfoot waist waders review - around £200 (and I now...
Let’s get the easy bit out of the way - the regular Vision Ikon chest waders remain my benchmark as regards a combination of value for money together with how well they perform for a good length of...
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I can’t believe how excited I am getting these days about what are...
So much of this lure fishing stuff and whether you accept and adopt different methods and techniques depends on timing to me - when and where you are if you like in your lure fishing progression or...
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Could this upcoming Tsunami Salt X waterproof spinning reel be a viable...
A while ago I blogged about this new but not easy to get hold of yet Van Staal VR50 spinning reel (see here), and when I was out in Kerry the other day a lad I know took delivery of one that he had had...
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It’s such fun having some time to charge around Cornwall and fish it pretty hard
I don’t know about you, but I tend to fish a fair bit yet because of life and how it works I usually go fishing, do my thing, and then head back home to get on with other stuff. My wife and girls have...
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It absolutely wrecks my head when you catch a nice bass on a hard lure in a...
Holy cow that was a fun week or so of charging around Cornwall with Steve and also Mark when he could get some time off work. It’s August and for the most part we have had huge tides which aren’t...
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Apia Grandage 96ML 9’6’’ 7-28g lure rod review - £309.99 UK price
Crumbs does the Japanese fishing tackle brand APIA make some serious lure fishing rods, and this new Apia Grandage 96ML 9’6’’ 7-28g lure rod is from their new Grandage series of lure rods that I...
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Do many of you swim paddletails nice and shallow for bass? And yes, my brain...
Amendment - Just got back from a dog walk where I quickly had a few chucks with the Z-Man/weedless hook with hitchhiker setup which is described in more detail below - it doesn’t work. The Z-Man looks...
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What a buzz to be able to "remotely" help a friend catch some bass and then...
Some anglers live by the sea and get to fish a lot, and some for any number of reasons don’t, and as much as I didn’t grow up by the sea and I’ll never take what I do and where I live for granted,...
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Penn Slammer III 3500 spinning reel review - under £150 in the UK
I love fishing with a buttery smooth and light as a feather spinning reel as much as the next angler, but with how a lot of us go about our lure fishing, the argument is always going to be there that...
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White DoLive Sticks are back in the UK
Apologies for this brief blog post this morning, but ever since the solid white 6’’ DoLive Stick came into the UK a few months back and then sold out almost immediately I have been getting emails and...
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When you’re trying something slightly different, nothing gives you that vital...
Aside from a couple of baby bass, the first three fish I hooked this year all felt half-tidy but all of them came off pretty quickly. Obviously it’s fishing and we are never going to stay connected to...
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