Trophy Room for Andy Shattock

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Following on from last monthís piece about bluewater fish, this month Iíll try to give you some dubious advice about my favorite top ten UK fish for eating. a brill in the hand is worth ten quid at a push (well, the proverb nearly works, dunnit ?) quite the best thing that happened to me…

Specie: Spanish Mackerel Weight: 55 lb Location: Great Barrier Reef 55 lb Spanish Mackerel caught on board ‘Orca’ off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, October 1999. At the time this was the biggest fish I had ever caught. I was a very happy man. We ate it raw

It is not my intention here to go through all the examples of mythical pike. Though these stories are slightly amusing I am not too impressed with them simply because they devalue the well documented examples which though not as big as the mythical pike are no less impressive for all this.At the end of…

The blue-green algae now had a firm grip on the water, and had reduced visibility from around ten feet, to just two or three inches. It looked as if someone had tipped hundreds of gallons of turquoise paint into the water, and with no signs of fish anywhere, I began to think it a waste…

Fellow angling writer Jason Inskip offered a simple cure for my bone-fever: ‘Get yourself off to the Seychelles my boy.’ The Seychelles Islands lie in the Indian Ocean, just below the equator, about 1,000 miles off the East African coast. Amongst knowing bone-fisherman, these islands have an almost mythical reputation. I gave myself two weeks…