Ockendon Bait & Tackle

Madness ensued as the final items of importance were packed ready for this, my sixth trip to India in search of the legendary Golden Mahseer. My well laid plan of bed at 10pm of course went unnoticed as I was still looking for hooks and split rings strong enough to hold the world’s strongest fighting…

Last week I talked about many line and hook breakages being caused by using over-powerful rods. The opposite can also be true, with too powerful lines exerting tremendous pressure on rods. Whilst modern rods are incredibly strong, as with everything, they can be overloaded and this will inevitably lead to breakages occurring. One rather rough…

We were trying for porbeagle sharks and had big-game expert Roddy Hayes along with us to show us how to do it. We never caught that day but Phil took onboard everything that was advised by Roddy.Since then Phil has been bagging up shark after shark, with many porbeagles in the total. Using teasers and…

Denmark It was with great enthusiasm that we set out for Denmark at the end of August. The weather was superb and we had a great crossing from Harwich to Esbjerg. Tim Meadows of Anglers Abroad had arranged for us to use a house at Trunst, about ten miles from Silkeborg, and very close to…

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The bream certainly think so, and if you know of a water containing some big fish, now is probably the best chance you have of catching them. A few years ago the close season precluded fishing at this time of year for most of the country, but I can well remember tales of huge catches…