Fishing With A Pirk By Rupert Drury
With the growing popularity of “shad” fishing, use of a pirk has fallen out of fashion to a degree. Nevertheless, pirking (jigging or ripping), remains a very effective method of catching cod, ling and other local species. Over the years, I’ve had some belting pollack, loads of ‘nuisance’ [...]
Great Fishing On Light Tackle Whilst At Anchor.
Uptide boat fishing at anchor (uptiding) is one of the most productive and enjoyable methods of fishing for Cod and numerous other species like ling, conger, bass, tope and rays. The method involves casting a 6 ounce weight and a trace, baited with a variety [...]
Mackerel fishing you say? Anyone can catch mackerel, yes while I agree in principle there are days when we struggle to fing them and this guide is intended to help the novice on such days, although I think some of you more regular boat anglers might find the article of interest especially the safety aspect covered later (not to mention [...]
What braided line should I buy? (Part 1 of 2).
It is not an exaggeration or overstatement to say that braided line has revolutionised modern day sea angling. This is certainly true for many branches of boat / kayak angling, and increasingly so, for spinning and other shore casting techniques. Braid first came on to my [...]
Mull Of Galloway Shark Tagging Event
The second annual shark tagging event organised by SSACN and tagsharks.com will be held in 2010 over 3 days in June. The 18th, 19th and 20th June will see boat and kayak anglers from across the UK decend on Scotland with the main aim of catching and tagging as many [...]
After 5 years of not being to sea, I finally persuaded Neil, a friend from the village to join me on a tope fishing trip. Neil and I last fished together on a conger eel mission off Rye in East Sussex in 2004. We’d driven a long way and the forecast just turned overnight and [...]
Thought you guys would like to see some photographs from yesterday afternoons bass fishing. It was taken from my friends’ boat in about 14’ of water and caught on an 11’ spinning rod, fishing live launce under a float. This was the biggest of nine fish we caught in the afternoon fishing 1 – 6pm.
As [...]
The Countries Biggest Boat Fishing Festival.
Each year the local charter skippers hold a spring, summer and autumn Whitby angling festival. Fishing usually takes place over 14 days (Unless otherwise stated) from boats registered with The Whitby Charter Skippers Association. In recent years the Whitby Charter Skippers Association have added a 4th event to [...]
Sea Breeze 3 Brighton Conger Fishing
The wrecks off the Sussex coast hold some of the best Conger Eels Fishing locations in the UK. Ranging in sizes from 30 to 100 lbs, you can see from some of the video these fish are excellent sport…
There are more vidoes to watch over on the sea breeze [...]
Boat Fishing In Norway – Big Cod, Halibut, Haddock And Wolf Fish For Andy And Friends.
Some of you may remember Forum member Andy Stonehouse from his bass fishing trip to the Channel Islands last summer. This year Andy and his mates opted for a spot of boat fishing in Norway where they visited the northern [...]
