Mahi-Mahi are great fish. They give an angler a fight that he or she will never forget. Mahi-Mahi are also known as Dolphin (not the bottlenose dolphin). Mahi-Mahi make long runs and will often leap out of the water when you are battling them. They are also excellent tablefare. On this adventure, we head down…

Articles by Eric Edwards Eric Edwards Eric Edwards is forty five years of age, a logistics manager and lives in St. Helens, near Liverpool with his wife and three children. An angler since the age of six, he has specialised in catching specimen coarse fish for the last thirty years. Notable captures include a record…

What if I could tell you of a place where it is not unusual to catch at the least half a dozen fish each trip, where it would not be unusual to see several double figure pollack, big ling, maybe a bass or two, occasionally cod, maybe even conger if the skipper decided to anchor…

This new edition for July has a whole load of new articles for your enjoyment plus a brand new competition. Don’t forget to enter it because if you are not in the game then you are not in the frame!Well, what will it be this week? I donít know what to fish for at this…

Articles by Lesley Crawford Lesley Crawford Lesley Crawford has been fishing for wild trout in Scotland for over 40 years and her enthusiasm for the sport shows absolutely no signs of diminishing. She is a well established highly respected author with three major titles for Swan Hill, notably the highly acclaimed ‘Scotlands Classic Wild Trout…

There are dolphins, both bottlenose and common, pilot whales, Cuvier’s beaked whales and some more cetaceans yet, seen far away, their watery blows arcing into the sky against a cold and arid landscape. Of course, no tuna. No bait. Shearwaters circle aimlessly and gulls wait patiently in small forlorn flocks. Below in the saloon, Nigel…

What? It looks good? Well so it should, considering all the work and planning that has gone into it. Fishing.co.uk replaces the old UK Fishing World site, blowing it out of the water in all respects. It’s still built by anglers, for anglers but now it has the added support of both Internet Advertising and…

A ling’s jaws have “state of the art” dentures. Needle shaped teeth designed for grabbing and not letting go, helped along by a wide powerful mouth. Their eyes are large, for good vision at depth and they are powerful swimmers. They grow big too, easily over 40lbs. The British record makes 59lbs, and commercially caught…

Following on from my previous article on “fly rodding for carp” here I intend to focus on the surface and subsurface tactics I have used in various circumstances to deceive fish – well, some of the time anyway!

POINTED HEADS These lures come in a variety of shapes ranging from the original Green Machine to some of the more modern jet-heads from Melton. As a rule of thumb, for blue marlin there are very few lures in this category which are part of a traditional lure-fishermanís arsenal. Exceptions to this rule include some…