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Daiwa J-Braid Expedition X8 braid review - around £38 for a 150m spool or £60...
This is not remotely a “budget” braid, but there is something rather interesting about it which I can’t really prove but which I am convinced makes this Daiwa J-Braid Expedition X8 braid a really good...
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I never go fishing without a few metals in my lure box, doing so got me a...
I don’t know how far I can chuck a 28g Savage Gear Seeker on a really good 8’8’’ lure rod (coming later in the year), but I connected with a chunky January bass around the 3 lb mark yesterday morning...
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Favorite Totem 842MH 8’4’’ 12-36g lure rod review - £159.99 (SO close to the...
If you can live with the fact that the fixtures and fittings are not of the same Fuji-type quality than you might find on a more expensive lure rod, then with this Favorite Totem 842MH 8’4’’ 12-36g we...
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I broke my creature bait virginity yesterday and I’m heading over to Guernsey...
I am nearly 52 so I guess I am meant to be a relatively mature adult who has seen most things and could be more “sensible” (sod that), but I woke up at 3am this morning with a jolt because I can’t shut...
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Catching my first few bass on creature baits - is it really a game changer or...
Obviously I don’t have nearly enough experience yet to tell you whether the whole creature bait thing (crab imitation or not?) is or is not a game changer for my bass fishing, but I do know that I now...
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Fenix HM65R ShadowMaster headlamp review - around £100 in the UK
First off let me tell you that I wasn’t thinking about a new headlamp for my lure fishing for bass at night (or running or early morning winter dog walks etc.). A few years ago I found what to me is...
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Creature questions - are these lures really imitating a crab, or is it more...
Just this morning at breakfast my wife said that I definitely have an obsessive personality, and to put it into context I was trying to have a conversation about running and not fishing - she has no...
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I never stop thinking about this kind of stuff, but after listening to the latest episode of the excellent “The Lure Fishing Podcast” from Cormac Walsh where he is talking to Marc Cowling of South...
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Off to Portugal for a week (hope my flight goes this time!), thank you for...
If we don’t get another hectic storm over the weekend which stops my flight taking off - see here from this time last year - then on Sunday morning I am flying to SW Portugal to see if I can find a few...
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The bass fishing is not easy out here, but it’s about as exciting as it gets,...
It’s probably not great for me as my heart literally stopped for a split second yesterday morning when a fish hit my lure, but because it’s the south west coast of Portugal and you know the size of...
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A few bass coming in, a few bass lost, broken rods, broken reels, bloody...
The bass fishing here in SW Portugal is merciless when it comes to ego and fishing tackle. In four days I have seen a broken lure rod, a broken spinning reel, a good few lost lures, a bloody pair of...
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Sequence of photos showing a good bass so nearly landed, then suddenly lost...
I got back home last night and I was thinking about doing this blog post almost straight after the events you will see below which happened earlier last week. When you look at these photos you need to...
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It’s not every day you see a bass like this in the UK in the middle of February
It felt so strange to make that first easy cast with a little 8’6’’ 32g lure rod a couple of days ago when I had been blasting stuff out on far more powerful 9’8’’ and 10’ rods in Portugal the week...
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Unrealistic expectations for this time of year? Who knows……………..
It was only a few years ago that I caught my first ever bass in the UK in February, then I am pretty sure it was March last year when I caught my first ever UK bass in that particular month. January...
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Looking at and thinking about water I already know (and need to check out)...
A select few anglers I know and get to fish with a bit have really got me thinking about bits of water almost all over again. I was talking with a friend the other day and I said something along these...
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Automatically turning to heavier lures the rougher it gets isn’t always the...
With the relentless onshore weather we’ve been getting for a few days around here, I got to thinking about a session we had not long before Christmas when my “logical approach” as such didn’t turn out...
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My first audio blog post, please tell me what you think. The Big One Show...
I stumbled across some online software the other day which allows me to record audio directly to it, and if I ask it to, it also produces a basic video of my audio together with a transcript of what I...
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Never realised how much extra roll a football-style jig head can put on a...
You probably guessed a long time ago that this time of year combined with bad conditions tends to get me thinking about this sort of stuff! I came across football-style jig heads many years ago, and...
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The Big One Show was better than ever for lure fishing
What a weekend up at Farnborough. I have worked in the fishing tackle industry for nearly thirty years now. I know a hell of a lot of really good people, and I love getting to see so many of them like...
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Never has the one tiny bass meant so much! Hope to see some of you at the...
It always happens at some point in March - the weather gets stunning for a few days and it feels like a proper taste of spring. I went out fishing a couple of days ago to do what I have promised myself...
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