Right, where was I

So what does that tell you? Simply that they have moved inshore to the feed-rich sandbanks to feed up and build their strength up for their Summer-long sojourn in the sunshine. If there is a ‘duffers fortnight’ in sea fishing, this is it. Sometimes catches of a hundred fish a boat are not unusual on…

Obvious ones that are in daily use for example are herds, flocks, and shoals, but there are hundreds of names describing specific species. I was intrigued to learn that an animal which I think is of special attractiveness to most of mankind, the porpoise, and also the dolphin, have a social structure which includes similarities…

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This is the trigger temperature for the shoals of Bass that have holidayed away for the Winter to move back inshore to haunt the sandbanks, reefs and wrecks. There are those of us who have devoted a lot of time over the years to catching Bass. Ask me why and I will go misty eyed…

They are very competent people and we can manage without a deckhand. Beyond the drop-off I slow the Margarita, put the spread out and relax. The weather is hazy with a slow, long, oily swell from the west ; water 72.6°. Jonno is inshore with Angullla, unhappily day-tripping for barracudas along the coast. At 10.55am…

My adherence to this opinion was not through hard earned first hand experience, as thoughts of returning to my past rarely occurred to me. It was merely that this adage seemed to possess a certain logic, and was so widely held by those whose opinions I respected, I assumed it had to contain an element…