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Shelling crabs, carving a squid or maybe preparing a mackerel flapper are tasks which demand a “hands on approach”. Once I even saw an angler who brought a pair of “marigolds” (rubber gloves) with him to use for these jobs. Needless to say the banter was of an incredibly high standard that day!Fishing with Dave…

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…

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…

The whole thing blew up while I was working flat out. By flat out I mean 16 hour days! Not that I have to work this hard most of the year, but it just happens that my greatest workload comes when I most want to go fishing! A few people such as Eddie Turner did…

As the setting sun hits it, you could be excused for believing that the paintwork of the canary-yellow catamaran tied up to the pontoon is responsible. But – it goes a little deeper than that.The catamaran Top Cat is owned by the Wrightsons Trust and is skippered by Steve Golden. So, with a name like…

The Falklands represent all that is good about fishing wild places and the lessons learnt there can be applied anywhere.I am a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force. I came to be there on a four month tour on a mountain radar site on the north west tip of the West Falklands at a place…