Fishing Bait

This book is reputed to be ideal for the person new and just setting off in Sea angling. Its well written, and clearly explains the basics to get your first rig, well presented in the water ready to catch fish. Plus you get to look at John Wilson on the front cover!
To give you an [...]

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Blueys the new fishing bait.
Have you tried a Bluey yet?
Did you catch more fish?
Don’t know what a Bluey is, well nor do I really.
They are being hailed as a new super bait to hit sea fishing. I understand they are an oily fish like a mackerel, but these fish have a greater oil content and therefore create [...]

Have you heard about LazyLug and LazyRag, I have never tried either product yet. I am a great believer in fresh worm and I prefer bait collected from the beach or at least close by to where I am fishing.
Lazy Lug and Rag is a preserved worm served in a container. I have not even [...]

Lugworm is a much favoured bait for sea fishing which with a bit of planning can be collected easily and its well worth the effort. There are two main types for fishing, blow lugworm and black lugworm. Lug will catch almost all UK sea species
The Lugworm lives in the inter tidal area of beaches [...]

This is a very wide question that I have been asked – What fish baits should I use for UK sea angling.
The answer is just about anything depending on what you are hoping for.
Bass like – Mackerel, Sand Eel, Fresh water eel, live pouting and others.
Soul like – Smelly baits including pilchard and herring.
Conger like [...]

Storm lures are ever growing in popularity so I decided to have a look at their entire lure product range.
Storm say they get into the head of fish, meaning that they try and understand what makes fish react in the way they do to certain stimuli. With this knowledge in hand they then produce some [...]

Please don’t laugh but consider this about mackerel.
I have been prompted to write this after reading a few UK sea angling forums and reading what people have said about our humble mackerel.
The Atlantic Mackerel Scomber scombrus is a pelagic fish (mid water) which shoal in great numbers around the UK coast in late spring. Huge [...]

I have added a new category for Sea fishing shore marks.
I have great knowledge of marks in Devon, Cornwall, The Isle of Man and Dorset so that’s where I will start. However when it comes to the rest of the country, I am starting to struggle.
Ramsgate, Dover, Sea Brook, Fleetwood, The Tyne, Whitby, Lowestoft are all areas [...]

I have had further discussions about the best Bass live bait with a few Devon and Cornwall Bass fishermen.
It seems that the current preferred bait has to be the live prawn. There are many ways as I have discussed before on how to catch these animals so I won’t go into much detail on this [...]