The Porbeagle Shark, Lamna Nasus, is Northern Europe’s ‘biggest big game fish’. It is thought to grow to about a thousand pounds, and the All-Tackle World Record is a fish of 507 pounds, caught by Christopher Bennet, off Caithness, Scotland in March 1993. It has a number of different names; which include, Salmon Shark, Herring…

Okay. Well, first of all we have a new competition for you to enter.These competitions that we are running are really popular. And why not? The chance of something for nothing has always had appeal, I just never realised how popular these things were with anglers. Perhaps it’s something to do with the quality of…

Without doubt the number 1 question is – What tackle and flies do you recommend for catching pike? Answer : I would recommend a Greys Esox or Sage RPLi 9 foot 3 piece for a 9 weight. Both rods can be hidden in the car from thieves and taken on board an aircraft as hand…

It doesn’t seem that long ago that my old Blue Match rod had to double for roach-pole, pike rod or anything else that came along, or instead of my huge rucksack, my fishing bag was just an old golf bag. One thing that hasn’t changed however is my love for angling and the constant quest…

If you’re an angler and saw the movie ‘The Perfect Storm’ then I’d bet that you came away, as I did, with two abiding images. The first would be of the longliner tk, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, climbing the glassy, impossibly steep, underside of a huge swell and, inevitably, being flipped over and swallowed by…

For trout, Ephemera Danica represent the icing on the cake. Stonefly, midges, sedge and Daddies may excite, but mayfly get top billing. Just why this should be so can partly be explained by the insects size (bigger than most) but it also has a lot to do with the mayflies ability to hatch profusely even…

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…

Take a look at this pretty doggy on the left. That’s my doggy. When I got him as a pup I imagined he would be one of those dream anglers dogs. You will remember the Passion for Angling TV series where Bob James’ pair of beauties would dive in to retrieve a trout, negating the…

Knots are quite important to fishermen of course – except to those for whom they fail in such a continuous manner so as to lead a person to believe it is normal for fish to be lost in this way, and darn it, why the hell are they so unlucky ?! Personally, and thankfully (or…

FISHING.CO.UK is now running on a new server, so that should speed things up a bit. Let me know if you are experiencing any problems and we’ll see if we can sort things out. It’s nice to get stuff like that sorted out early on in the year, it interferes with too much fishing time…