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How are you all doing through these storms?
It’s really howling again around here but there’s been a shift in the wind direction and for where we are situated I actually feel twitchier with these NW winds than I did those monstrous SW winds we...
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Toit Fishing Split Ring Pliers review (ingenious) - around £28 here in the UK
You might have guessed from the title of this blog post that I think these new split ring pliers from Toit Fishing are rather brilliant, indeed I look at them and I wonder why on earth nobody else has...
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I find it so exciting to “discover” lures which weren’t really intended for...
We need to take the word “discover” here with a pinch of salt, because it’s not as if I am heading out and discovering new worlds dressed only in an itchy, woolly mammoth loincloth! But I do get to...
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Another way of looking at the whole “you don’t need distance because all the...
I don’t know if any of you here listen to any fishing podcasts, but the two best ones I know of and listen to regularly are the Surfcasters’ Journal Night Shift and Seven Stripes Fishing podcasts. Both...
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Casts well, swims well, bumps well, but is this style of rigging going to...
I don’t know nearly enough about the huge variety of different jig heads out there and to be perfectly honest the bulk of my “soft plastic lure on a jig head” fishing ends up revolving around lures...
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Fortis Vistas polarised sunglasses review - £75 here in the UK (what do we...
I’m going to use the word sunnies instead of having to type out “a pair of polarised sunglasses” every single time I need to refer to a pair of polarised sunglasses, and at the end of the day the only...
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I didn’t know you could get weedless hooks with such heavy belly-weights on...
Try as I might to keep an eye on anything fishing tackle related which might be of use in the (sea) bass fishing world, I am a regular bloke with regular flaws, and from time to time I miss something...
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Changed over from Fuji to Sony camera gear, couldn’t be happier
If you have zero interest in photography or indeed video work then today’s blog post isn’t going to interest you at all and I will see you hopefully on Monday. I think that some of you here are...
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Does the odd lost fish continue to haunt you?
Any angler who claims that they land all the fish they hook is a liar in my opinion, but who here has hooked and lost the odd fish and it continues to haunt them? How big was the fish? If you saw the...
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When’s the bass fishing going to kick off this year? When do you tend to see...
I am increasingly interested in these so called fishing seasons and whether it’s all because of global warming or bait shoals and so on that we are tending to see bass for longer and longer each year...
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Do you adjust your casting speed and drop length etc. to better suit certain...
Some sample hard lures arrived here late last week for me to continue evaluating and working out whether any changes might be needed and so on. Sometimes these sample lures are at a stage in their...
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Can a very vivid dream count as my first ever March bass? (screw you covid...
I don’t know what a 49 year old man should be dreaming about at night, but I woke up with a start at 3.30am this morning, right after I had released a rather anaemic looking bass which I had estimated...
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I find some of these slightly shorter and more powerful lure rods really...
And it’s not because I catch bigger bass than you! I might dream that I do, but you know what I think - there isn’t a bass which swims on our waters which cannot be successfully tamed on almost any of...
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If fishing is about trying to outwit nature then is blanking the art of not...
When we’re regularly catching whatever fish we are targeting we manage to convince ourselves that we know all about nature’s mysteries, but when we go through a tough patch with our fishing we look for...
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It fascinates me how similar types of lures can swim so subtly differently...
My apologies if today’s blog post today doesn’t end up helping you catch more bass, but if we accept that we don’t actually know why a fish might or might not hit a certain lure of a certain colour...
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Are boxes full of the more “boring” lures where a lot of bass anglers will...
Whatever you think and/or get out of this blog of mine, at its core I would suggest that it is one obsessed angler’s journey into, upwards and through this drug that is lure fishing for bass. I didn’t...
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How far out might you plan a fishing session?
I guess a lot of this depends on where you live in relation to some fishing, plus whatever work and family commitments you might have and so on. I got to thinking about this because I went out fishing...
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First (small) bass of the new season, it made me smile for so many reasons
After what turned out to be a bad call on Monday morning, I liked the look of the forecast for Wednesday morning - a shift around from NW to W/SW winds which on my local coastline should get a bit of...
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Feeling rather honoured to be at the inaugural Irish Spring Angling Fair at...
If there is one thing I really enjoy in the world of fishing it’s a good fishing show. When they are done well I think they are a blast. The last one I went to was in Bristol, back before the world...
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I’ve got some gear here to try out as an alternative to BCWs for some of my...
I would guess that a lot of you here are in the same boat as me. You essentially live in your BCWs (breathable chest waders) for most of or even all of your saltwater fishing, but from time to time you...
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