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 [...]
The future Of Shark Fishing In The North East – lets all be prepared to experiment a bit.
All the Whitby shark caught so far have been caught whilst fishing at anchor. This is an easy way to get a good long chum trail out, but bear in mind it’s also a [...]
Forum moderator Ian Buckingham got more than he bargained for on his weekend stag fishing celebrations. Ian booked the Staithes charter boat “All Our Days” for a 3 hour fishing trip along with his mates. Only minutes into the trip and less than a mile from the harbour one of the lads hooked into and [...]
SSACN’s Scottish Shark Tagging Programme (SSTP – www.tagsharks.com ) is delighted to announce the launch of the second annual Spurdog Tagathon.
The tagging event is part of our ongoing campaign to allow the stocks of spurdog and common skate in Lochs Sunart and Etive and surrounding waters to regenerate by protecting them from excessive and unsustainable [...]
Rupert Drury Tells Of His Recent Shark Fishing Trip Aboard Rich Wards Boat Shytorque 3
After my previous trip on 16th June, I had a nagging doubt that the next mission was not going to be successful. Many factors need to fall into place, weather, bait, tides and a good measure of luck. The [...]
Report By Rupert Drury
This was the earliest I’d booked a shark trip from Whitby and though all the captures from the port have been from July onwards, previous sightings reported to me over the last 2 years in June led me to believe that a booking a trip ths month could possibly be worthwhile. I’d [...]
Methods Utilised To Catch Sharks
My basic technique comprises of fishing four rods. Either all four are float fished, or three are set up with floats and one fished under the boat on a shortish line, with a lead but no float. I wouldn’t recommend using any more than four rods at once [...]
Shark Fishing - Organising The Day
Before moving onto baits and tactics, it’s perhaps worth touching on how I like to organise the day when sharking. I’m now in my third year of this, with successful missions recorded in 2005 and 2006. This year, however, to date in October 2007, not [...]
The sharking tackle I use is 50lb class. Without the use of a fighting chair, this is, in my opinion, about as much as can be sensibly used whilst standing. A long 80lb class rod can’t be maintained in it’s fighting curve for any length of time, unless you are fully [...]
This is the first in a series of five articles about shark fishing written by local shark angler Rupert Drury who landed the first ever Shark caught at Whitby. These articles will give an insight into how to successfully target sharks off the north east coast of England. Although Rupert specifically [...]
