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Shimano Dialuna S90L 9' 5-25g lure rod review - €289.95 (and I am off to...
I find myself becoming a bit of a fan boy when it comes to the Shimano Japan lure fishing gear that I have fished with so far, so it’s even more frustrating that Shimano Europe in all their “in touch...
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It seriously floats my boat when a brand new lure works so well from...
Do many of us here actually need any new lures? Come on, am I the right person to answer that?! It’s an addiction, plain and simple, but as mad as march hares a lot of us might be with this whole lure...
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Surf fishing for bass seriously floats my boat
I still pinch myself at how much fun lure fishing for bass is, and sometimes when I wake up early I like to think about the many different ways we can go about it and what is my favourite way to do so...
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One year down the line with the Shimano Twin Power XD C3000HG spinning reel
I kept a note of the fact that I bought this Shimano Twin Power XD C3000HG spinning reel in early August 2017 and it has been used pretty solidly ever since. I wrote a blog review of this reel in early...
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Major Craft Triple Cross EU Custom 9’ 10-30g lure rod review - £199.99 UK...
How on earth does a lure rod company go about replacing the Skyroad range of lure rods? I don’t pretend to be a businessman who knows about this sort of stuff, but I do recognise that product ranges...
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82cms of prime Kerry silver landed yesterday on one of our co-guided Ireland...
Crumbs! To be fair yesterday was not an easy day of bass fishing, but about an hour before we were going to head off for supper, one of our lads Richard hooked and landed his first ever bass from the...
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Shimano Pitbull 8 braid review - €39.95 for a 200m spool here in Europe
Whilst I find it increasingly difficult to review these modern 8-strand braids when firstly we already have what to me are four awesome braids for what I would term a “more than friendly price” - Daiwa...
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Leaving Kerry and heading home today
As much as I can’t get enough of spending time here in Ireland, having spent more than three weeks out of four away from home in September it’s going to be great to get home and properly see my family....
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Three years now with the Breakaway Mini Link lure clip, and not a single...
It was my friend Cian who used to run the outstanding Absolute Fishing tackle shop over in Ireland who put me onto these little Breakaway Mini Link lure clips, and at the time I was using the Delalande...
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When there’s obviously a bunch of small bass around, what do you do?
After two weeks of co-guiding work over in Ireland and obviously not fishing (because guides do not fish with their clients, end of), believe me, the need to go fishing for myself is serious! As much...
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Has anybody official ever checked up on you and what you have caught while...
When I was over in Kerry the other day, on two or three occasions we had a bloke from IFI (Inland Fisheries Ireland) walk out to where we were fishing with our clients. We were also checked up on back...
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Does this obsession ever get any easier? Currently it’s metal lures and...
Here’s a bit of free advice for you - if you are currently a die hard bait angler but are just starting to dabble in this world of saltwater lure fishing, stop right now. Do yourself a big favour and...
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I could shoot surf fishing until the cows come home……….
We took a bit of a punt yesterday afternoon on some surf fishing, and whilst we came away from a session that in theory was hardly electric, for me it was about as good as I could have hoped for. I am...
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Sounds to me like this angler was seriously lucky to get out of this alive
I know little about this angler related incident from that storm we had the other day save for what I have read online, but it sounds to me like the person concerned is seriously lucky to be alive. I...
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My double figure bass feature is in this month’s Sea Angler, and no blog...
I wanted to alert you to the fact that my account of the 79cms long bass that I caught in early September is in this month’s new edition of Sea Angler magazine, and as ever I take my hat off to the...
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I’ll be working with the RNLI at the European Sport Fishing Show this weekend...
This coming Saturday and Sunday is the second ever European Sport Fishing Show in Bristol and I must admit that I can’t wait, plus of course I am rather proud to be going there for the two days to do...
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Book review - “The Song of the Solitary Bass Fisher” by James “Leakyboots” Batty
“This isn’t a book about how to catch bass. It’s a book about how I catch bass. There’s a difference.” I knew I was going to like this new bass fishing book from about page one, and what continues to...
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Major Craft Triple Cross EU Custom 9’6'' 10-30g lure rod review - £199.99 UK...
The one rod in the discontinued Major Craft Skyroad range that I never got to spend any meaningful time with was the 9’6’’ 10-30g. I spent a heap of time fishing with their awesome Major Craft Skyroad...
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Some thoughts and highlights from the weekend’s European Sport Fishing Show
So the second ever European Sport Fishing Show has been and gone, and as with last year I think the location is perfect and I take my hat off to the organisers for sticking their necks out like they so...
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This angler bought a lifejacket because of what we’ve been doing, he got into...
This is copied from a Facebook post that Neal Dews put up on Monday to describe what happened to him on the north coast of Cornwall last Sunday: “Yesterday morning this saved my life no questions asked...
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