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What makes a good lure rod for surf fishing?
Whatever anybody says about what lure fishing rods are meant to work best for certain types of lures, techniques, locations and conditions, I would always argue that fishing rods especially are very...
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Defying Gravity - a guest post from Robbie Northman (Savage Gear UK consultant)
I haven’t actually met Robbie Northman yet, but via Facebook I started seeing some posts from him with some rather nice bass and Savage Gear lures in their mouths. I did a bit of digging around and I...
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The new Shimano Vanford C3000HG spinning reel - initial impressions
A description of the new Vanford range of spinning reels from the Shimano USA website: “Sculpted from over a decade of engineering advancement and a rich lineage of predecessors, the new Vanford tests...
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I have caught my biggest ever bass and it came on one of our new Gravity...
It’s not every day of the week that you go and land your biggest ever bass from the shore, and whilst the bass you can see in the photos on this blog post was bouncing around the 11½lbs+ mark in my...
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Cornwall IFCA: Committee Members Demand Action On Illegal Bass Targeting
About a month ago and I blogged about a Cornwall IFCA Committee meeting that was taking place, and thanks as ever to the kind souls at Save our Sea Bass for reporting on what happened and for yet again...
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2½ years with the tiny little Nitecore NU25 headlamp and it’s still as...
When I feel like a bit of back in the day sort of moment (and it seems to be happening more the older I get), I like to place my tiny little Nitecore NU25 headlamp on my head, sit down in my favourite...
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Religion isn’t my thing, but I think there might be fishing gods, and wow are...
I think it stems from me lucking out and landing that big bass the other day. For whatever reasons I guess I was in the right place at the right time, and what could well be my bass of my lifetime saw...
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Monday morning always feels that bit better when you can nip out and catch a...
I have never had the security of a 9 to 5 job or a monthly salary - should I really be using the word “security” during times like these? - but I love what I do and I can often be fairly flexible...
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DAM Effzett Intenze Spin 9' 7-28g and 9’ 14-42g lure rod reviews - £99.98 UK...
I can’t remember ever reviewing two lure rods in the same blog post, but I have been itching to tell you about these two DAM Effzett Intenze Spin rods ever since I first took them out fishing and as...
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I’m really liking this not pre-rigging soft plastics way of doing things
Apologies for the lack of posts last week, but I was spending a few days with my folks having not seen them for about eight months or so. I hope that those of you here with kids had a good half-term...
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I have updated various pages on this website to reflect all the new Savage...
I have been getting lots of emails, messages and questions from anglers asking me when all this new bass fishing related Savage Gear gear is going to hit the shops and websites here in the UK and...
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I’ve been trying out some considerably cheaper polarised sunglasses and I am...
You need to know that I am a bit of a polarised sunglasses snob - let’s please call them sunnies for ease of use here - and that this has come about primarily from wearing a number of very good and...
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Sorry if I sound a bit like a public service broadcaster, but all the new...
I reckon the first time I clipped on the first sample of what is now the Savage Minnow and caught a bass on it was July 2019 when the world was what we now refer to as normal. I still have that exact...
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Filming or photographing yourself fishing here in the UK is fraught with...
A lot of you here hopefully don’t know that many years ago I used to present some fishing programmes on some obscure TV stations that were forever changing their name and direction. I never went...
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Do most of our estuaries have the potential for big bass on lures?
As much as I love my open coast fishing when the waves are rolling in or it’s so quiet and calm at night that you swear you can hear a bass inhaling your sub-surface lure, I am increasingly fascinated...
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You can choose one kind of lure to successfully deal with as much of your...
Please note that this is nothing to do with what’s your favourite way to fish for bass. If I did a poll based around that particular question I would imagine surface fishing would take first place....
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Can bass still feed in seriously hectic surf but the water conditions and/or...
I know that a blog post this morning about surf fishing when the coastline is about as flat and lifeless as I have ever seen it might not make much sense, but as is the case with many of these posts, I...
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Shimano Vanford C5000XG spinning reel review (interesting dilemma) - around...
Back in March I wrote a sort of “initial impressions” piece on this Shimano Vanford C5000XG spinning reel, so whilst it’s only the end of June now and therefore I can’t yet tell you if this thing is...
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Do some lures have an optimum size where bigger isn’t necessarily more...
For reasons which I am sure are fairly obvious I have been more thinking about various lures and how they cast and cover water, at what depths they swim and how this relates to different conditions,...
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Let's talk about feel - what is the whole “feel” thing with lure rods, do we...
Give me any half-decent, “sharp” feeling lure rod that we might use for our bass fishing, add calm seas and zero wind, clip on something with a relatively heavy jig head like a Black Minnow or one of...
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