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My youngest brother won a BAFTA last night - how cool is that?!
I am definitely the black sheep of the family! A few years ago my middle brother was BAFTA nominated for his directing work on the film “Rollin’ with the Nines”, and then recently my youngest brother...
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I love the idea of these “technical” slow jigs for surf fishing, but when...
They just make so much sense to me - a metal lure that casts great, and then due to some clever materials and designs, you can sink and draw them and cover a lot of water more methodically than simply...
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Sufix 131 G-Core braid review - £40+ for a 150m spool, £75+ for a 300m spool
I don’t find it particularly easy writing a review about a considerably more expensive mainline than at least three current and somewhat cheaper braids which I use, know and trust - the new and...
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It fries my brain when you’ve been catching nothing on a certain lure or...
I went out fishing the other morning and to be perfectly honest it was more a case of simply wanting to be out there on the coastline rather than feeling hugely confident of seeing a bunch of bass -...
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Tailwalk EGinn 88M 8'8'' Max 35g lure rod review - £259.99 UK price
Three rods in and in my humble opinion Tailwalk over in Japan have designed and made - or had made - a truly special range of lure fishing rods with this new EGinn range from their “Borderless”...
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Citroen Berlingo review - three years with the best chest freezer on the...
On Wednesday I will have been married for twenty years, and we’ve been together since we were nineteen years old. My wife is beyond awesome and she has less than zero interest in material things and...
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When you blank, was it simply because the fish weren’t there, or were you...
Okay, so I can’t pretend I really like these east winds and very bright conditions, but if you don’t go you will never know, and with building tides we picked a spot this morning that would at least...
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We have a few places left on our co-guided fishing trips over in Kerry, SW...
It’s kind of crept up on me that these four weeks a year of co-guiding work I do with John Quinlan and their Thatch Cottage Fishing operation in their outrageously beautiful and quiet corner of south...
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The first ever Pembrokeshire Bass Lure Tournament is in June - sign up by the...
If you are into your bass lure fishing and you enjoy fishing new waters in a stunning part of the world together with a bunch of like-minded junkies, then you need to put the 28th, 29th, and 30th of...
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HTO Nebula 9’/2.7m 7-35g 4-piece travel lure rod review - around £150
I keep an eye on the stats surrounding my blog and website here, and it always interests me how often I get anglers coming in and searching for information on travel-style lure fishing rods - but then...
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Do you have any idea how far you can cast certain lures, and does it actually...
I was contacted the other day by an angler from Europe who was asking me how far I reckon I can cast a 6’’ long OSP DoLive Stick rigged weedless/weightless, because on a beach he wants to fish he tells...
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Shimano Dialuna S96M 9'6" 8-45g lure rod review - £250+
Two rods into this new Shimano “Dialuna S” rod range now and I’m sold. There’s a complete range of seriously impressive lure fishing rods here that Shimano Europe are for reasons way above my pay grade...
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Do you ever twitch lures like DoLive Sticks and senkos etc. along the bottom...
This isn’t a blog post about specific soft plastics, but I can only really talk about the lures I use myself when I think about techniques etc., and you may not even fish with lures like these, or you...
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Dear powers that be at Penn fishing tackle - pretty please can we have a 2500...
I accept that this blog post isn’t going to make a blind bit of difference, but then again if you don’t ask you certainly don’t get. I asked the same question on Facebook a while ago and got some...
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I am still whacking needlefish out and doing no more than winding them...
Search needlefish on this blog and you will find some guest blog posts about these “straight sticks” from a very kind Keith White who was generous enough to write them for me, and yet again I find it...
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We have suddenly got one space available on one of our July co-guided trips...
I wanted to let you all know that due to a cancellation we have suddenly got one space left on our second co-guided lure fishing trip in July - please come along if you want to experience what we...
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Can the thickness of your leader ever actually affect your catch results?...
A certain amount of the time I don’t personally believe that it does, but what about those other times? Give me a bouncing bit of sea when the water is fizzing and green and full of energy and I can’t...
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Shimano Dialuna S96ML 9'6" 6-32g lure rod review - around £270
I am going to try my best to not sound like a scratched record about how frustrating it is to have a fishing tackle company like Shimano not bringing rods like this Shimano Dialuna S96ML 9'6" 6-32g...
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Buy a Penn Spinfisher VI spinning reel within the next month and you could...
Damn I was so close to heading off to Costa Rica myself for this event, but when the grownups at Penn UK asked me to come along and take photographs, the dates for this rather nice fishing holiday...
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Do bass eat garfish?
This question has been rattling around my head for a while now for a number of reasons. The other day I landed a bass around the 7lb mark on a surface lure the like of which I had never seen or used...
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