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 [...]
Stormcats Islay Tope Fishing Festival.
Imagine: two whole days of uninterrupted fishing off the picturesque shores of Islay, waters jumping with an abundance of natural sea life, and a host of visiting tope. Add to this the thrill of competition, a glittering array of prizes, barbeques, music, and drams by the harbour – The Stormcats Islay [...]
Yes its true, Spud has had a cracking fish on our first kayak tope hunt of the year.
Spud, Lozz and myself launched down in Holderness this morning, Chris (CPS) was on the water too, we got a message from him that bait was very scarce, no mackerel anywhere. Fortunately I had bagged a load in [...]
Sharkatag 2009 is set to attract around 200 volunteer sea anglers fishing from the shore, kayaks and boats in an attempt to tag as many inshore sharks as possible over a three-day period this June.
And OnlineFishing.tv, the TV channel just for anglers, will be there to cover it for its ‘Sea Watch UK’ series.
It’s part [...]
This article was written by Simon Everett (Edited by Glenn Kilpatrick). The article focusses on tope fishing from a kayak, however the methods discussed can also be utilised by boat anglers. Pictures appear courtesy of Ken Oliver.
Tackle For Tope Fishing
Rigs – A running ledger style rig will work just fine. A 6/0 or 8/0 mustad [...]
Kayak Fishing For Tope
When forum member CPS (Chris Scaife) invited the Whitby forum kayakers to join him on a tope fishing mission off the Holderness coast all the lads jumped at the opportunity to get out there and try be the first to catch a tope from a kayak in Yorkshire. But one man in [...]
