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Buried my dad and said a proper goodbye on Wednesday, I will get back to...
We gave my dad a proper send off on Wednesday and I know how much he would have loved to see so many of his family and friends in one place. We got to celebrate how much he was truly loved and adored...
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How often might the size and/or profile of your lure make a difference to...
There are many things which I find fascinating about this guiding work I do, with the not actually fishing bit perhaps being the most interesting. Because you get to watch people fish, you are going to...
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Ever seen a decent mullet taken fair and square on a surface lure?
I am pretty sure I hadn’t until yesterday morning when Steve had one of those surface takes you almost hear more than see because it’s so aggressive. I raced for my camera when I saw his rod go over,...
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Everything you can think of looks perfect but you blank - do we really have a...
On Wednesday morning I had a look at a local webcam and got a rather nice surprise - the sea conditions looked really rather lovely. With the size of the tide I had a mark in my head to fish over the...
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Would you be prepared to really change things up to have a sniff at bass...
It’s thanks here to a Welsh angler on Fabebook who posted a link to the YouTube video below - thank you Dan! - which comes from the highly respected French tackle company Ultimate Fishing. I have heard...
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You know those surface takes where it looks like a little bit of the sea has...
I was fishing on the early ebb tide yesterday afternoon, just as the current started to dribble past the edges of the bladderwrack. There were plenty of smaller bass hitting bait and numerous other...
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Got one of these brand new Penn Authority 2500 spinning reels on its way to...
You will have most likely gathered that I have had a growing obsession with Penn spinning reels over the last few years, and specifically their Slammer range. My obsession with these reels grew a whole...
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Watch and learn, watch and learn, watch and learn
I have numerous strengths and weaknesses as a human being and angler, but being a bloke I am quite possibly less inclined to admit to my faults than I should be. One thing though that I do pride myself...
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After a specific sort of waterproof smock, does anybody have any ideas?
I asked this question on my Facebook page and I was wondering if any of you here had some good ideas? Does anybody have any good suggestions for a lightweight and waterproof smock which secures around...
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Anybody else looking forward to autumn and into winter?
Don’t get me wrong here because I love a decent UK summer as much as the next (often sun-starved and wanting to get away from Jan, Feb and March in the UK) person, but I am really interested to see...
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Saw a bunch of really interesting lure rods for £100 and less, I’m a bit...
I’m away for a few days with my family and I managed to drop into the Wadebridge based Art of Fishing tackle shop on Tuesday morning. It was really good to catch up with the owner Ben Field, meet Josh...
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How often do fish refuse our lures but we never even know about it? (some...
I don’t know about you, but the whole “I’ve just had a follow/refusal” thing has always freaked me out a fair bit because I can’t help but wonder how long that fish which refused my lure might have...
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Do you ever sharpen your hooks? (because I can’t recall seeing a bass lure...
You might have picked up from this blog that specific instances from fishing sessions tend to inform and influence my thinking a lot of the time. Bass in January are often more than possible around...
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Conditions, conditions, conditions - first proper bit of bounce for ages and...
Like with you I am sure, fishing makes me so happy in so many ways, and right up there has got to be computing where to go, making that call - and then catching fish. I was watching the forecast all...
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I would respectfully suggest that we will never fully get to grips with the...
After the session that was Monday’s blog post, I headed out to a rock mark on my own that afternoon. I seriously liked the rather bouncy conditions - auto-inflate lifejacket very much on - and I wanted...
View ArticleThe end of an era
“Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.” Whatever your views and opinions on the royal family as a whole, the Queen died...
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It makes me so happy to be able to help a couple of friends catch some bass
I happen to really enjoy trying to put people I know, like, and trust onto a few fish. I am obviously no miracle worker, but I live around here, and I like to think I know enough about my local waters...
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Compared - two similar rated lure rods, very different prices. £500+ Shimano...
I am not trying to achieve anything very meaningful here by the way, but the other day I got the chance to fish two fairly similar rated lure rods which I like a hell of a lot side by side for the...
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My brain isn’t wired this way! Fishing on my own, not catching, make one...
I went out yesterday morning to catch the first of the ebb tide. I wanted to get out of the rather fresh north winds so I ended up fishing an estuary spot which is a bit deeper than I would tend to...
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What is the cheapest way to buy these soft plastic “weedless paddletails on...
I was tidying up some of my affiliate links on here the other day and I got to thinking about the proliferation of these soft plastic paddletail “systems” - paddletail lure bodies which are designed to...
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