Strand Fishing Tackle Shop

So far our success has been slight. CEPHEUS has neither the speed nor the stealth to approach these fish with consistent success as they feed sporadically on the surface, and our one hook-up so far came as a result of two small pieces of luck. Firstly we managed to get close enough to a subsiding…

Normally it is fished with a very high density sinking line with a short leader so that when it is cast out, the high density line drags the booby under, leaving it suspended off the bottom. It is then retrieved with a slow figure of eight retrieve to produce a ducking, diving action across the…

The trouble was, the carp and the weather were not really playing ball. After over a week of frost and fog, the weather had slowly warmed up and the first session of the week looked promising with cloudy skies and no wind, perfect conditions. Despite the lack of rain over the previous ten days though…

We went to Malindi, and, of course, the reason that I’m writing about it, is because of the fishing. We were quite lucky with the weather because the rainy season has just begun, and as far as the fishing is concerned the monsoons have also begun, but although we had one or two showers, on…

Specie: carp Weight: 19lb 2 oz ” I was invited to fish a coporate fishing day at BIRD’S GREEN, ESSEX which involved fishing from 10.00am to 117.00pm. During the match ( I caught eighteen carp smallest being a 6lb 2oz mirror carp upto this fish which weighed in at a clossal ( for me that…

But if you start getting that bit specialised then things change a little, for as your experience grows then the need for just a bit more tackle increases, or so some of us would like to think. Just watch that you dont fall into the common trap of believing that every single gadget put out…