The Sport Shop Stranraer

We have a calendar at work that gives you a ‘thought for the day’ on each page, some witty, some poignant, mostly naff. Today’s message warranted repeating though I thought, it read, “Give someone a fish and it will feed them for a day, give someone the knowledge to fish and you will feed them…

In the early nineties, the zander’s profile seemed to be higher than it is at present. There seemed to be a lot more anglers fishing for them. There have been many trends in angling over the years and this was probably one of them. Soon, the popularity of zander seemed to be on the wain,…

It’s nice to see that we have been getting some good reviews from the conventional media, both the Guardian newspaper and Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine have rated us as the best angling site on the web. I don’t know about you but I’m never sure about the accuracy of reviews unless I know the…

Fishing a long(ish) leader for Pollack and Coalfish over a deep sunk wreck in the Winter, or using a really light outfit but the same rig and method over the high rock outcrops of the Western Approaches, has been developed almost to an art-form by generations of blue water anglers. A little known fact is…

Most pike waters have only limited spawninghabitat for the pike and if you are not in one ofthese places your chances of catching are severelyreduced. So my aim this week is to try and point youin the right direction. With a little bit of effortthe Spring haunt of the pike can be quite easy to…

The most useful item is a buttpad strapped around your waist, so that the butt of the rod is held in a comfortable position, your reeling hand falls comfortably to the reels handle and the hand gripping the rods foregrip is in an optimum position to pump the rod. Many rod makers in recent times…