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coalfish [Species Menu] [coalfish articles] Common name: Coalfish Record weight: Not as big as other members of the cod family but still a good sized fish, particularly for the boat angler. The current shore best is a fish of 24lb 11oz 12 drams, whilst the boat best is held by a huge fish of 37lb…

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It’s been some time since I ventured into print on the technicalities of reels, though some of you may have read my article on the Wallis Cast last year (and hopefully been tempted to try it. Briefly digressing from the main topic of this piece, I’m hoping to be able to put up some film…

How many articles have been written on bait over the years? Probably enough to fill several books over! Yet, for those of us who have watched fishing develop over the last twenty years there has been an amazing swing in the way bait is written about. This change in our attitude to bait has, to…

It happens every time I do it. Someone stares, grimaces and then asks the perennial question, “What on earth are you doing?” Before you jump to any conclusions, this scenario is normally acted out when I have a hacksaw in one hand, a lure in the other and I’m in the midst of surgically altering…

The wind off the Indian Ocean was blowing hot and steady, whipping the sweat from my skin too fast for it to have any cooling effect whatsoever against the unremittingly fierce sun. I paused for a while under the shade of a spiny tree to pour water, warm from the bottle, over my head and…