New Shimano 2010 Catalogues

Fishing Tackle

The long awaited 2010 fishing tackle collection from Shimano is here for you to order.

There are products for sea fishing, game, coarse and just about all anglers around the world. Shimano have long been one of my favorite reel manufactures. Here is a quote from the Shimano web site:

The new Shimano catalogue is available now in 21 languages. 180 Pages packed with new Shimano products and innovative features!

During EFTTEX (June 2009) the Stella SW was awarded “Best new spinning reel”. Take a look at this reel and the other models in the SW range, a range especially developed to cope with shear intensity of the Saltwater fishing environment.

Follow this link to order your new shimano catalogue

Fishing Gifts

Fishing gifts for Christmas

Image by Blue J

Well I have posted this every Christmas for 5 years now and never got a good result. So COME on and tell us by commenting:

WHAT FISHING GIFT WOULD YOU LIKE FOR CHRISTMAS?

You can follow this on Twitter if you like Fishing-blog and let us all know what you would like to open on Christmas day!!!

Ah we have a bite

• HuntingLife – A new fly reel
• BeverleyJohnson – A pond and some maggots?
• I would like a new Kayak to fish from
• Paul – A heavy weight beach caster for winter cod!
  

Hi Guy’s

I would like to join a fishing club for fresh water and Sea fishing, I have just moved to St Annes  in Lancashire from Zimbabwe and don’t know any one in the area as yet.

Regards

Bill

Comment on this post and I will forward these to Bill!

Cathy BOAT FISHING

Sea fishing for ladies

Sunday 2nd August marked the first sea fishing trip by the Fishing For Everyone Ladies Fishing Club, run by Lucy Bowden.

The trip, which took place out of Amble Harbour saw 10 ladies take to the high seas Mackerel fishing in chartered boat, ‘The Warlord’. Captained by Jeff Davidson and his Skipper, Duncan the girls had a fantastic time and managed to catch 28 Mackerel between them.

Club Member, Mary Snowdon said;

“How exciting was that! What a great trip we had. Poppy and I just loved it and am definitely on for the next one.”

Due to popular demand another sea fishing trip is currently being organised. Our next Fly Fishing event will be held on Saturday 29th August at Sweethope Lough, Bellingham. Any ladies interested in this event should contact Lucy.

For more information on the Fishing For Everyone Ladies Fishing Club visit www.fishingforeveryone.com

Sea fish

I have been asked on a few occasions to create a species guide, which I have started to do, but I need some pictures of fish to go with it. I have hundreds of photographs of most species, but nothing digital. Have you got some digital photographs of fish that you would be happy for me to use here on the fishing-blog???

Sea fish photos

If you have a few pictures you are happy to share, please email them to me – comments@fishing-blog.co.uk

Thank you in advance. I will of course mentioned the photo provider and give you a link if you have your own site or business.

Image from – david.nikonvscanon

Would you be interested in a forum here on the fishing blog??

It will be mainly targeted for the beginner to Sea Angling, but would require some knowledgable anglers to assist.

Anyhow, the poll is over on the right — >

Welsh Sea fishing Team

Welsh Sea fishing Team

Northumberland based fishing tackle company Greys, are pleased to announce they are official sponsors of the Welsh sea fishing team.

Greys will be sponsoring the team with products including a selection of sea rods, G-Mag reels and Apollo Extreme clothing.

These products will be used at events including the World Championships in Croatia in 2010 and the Home National event in Wales in July this Year. The team will provide Greys with feedback on these products and ,  prototypes currently under development.

The Anglers to represent Wales in the World Championships are Franco Attanassio who has experienced success previously in World Championships in Portugal, Joe Arch, former individual world Champion ,  who has also had major wins at many events home and away, Alan Price who is former World champion from 2002 in Belgium. Pete Corker also joins the team – an excellent all round performer who narrowly missed out in an individual gold medal in Portugal and James Fraser who continues to produce the results when required ( team gold in 1997.)

Andrew Hutchins is the reserve for the event and will participate midway through the championships. Andrew has continued to show commitments and development in his career in angling and is being rewarded with a place on the team.

Team manager, Mike Flynn said;

“We are very proud to have Greys as our official sponsor. The Welsh Sea Angling Federation pride themselves on the method of qualification for the National team that allows all Anglers an equal chance of qualification. The facts are clear in adopting an open method of selection and we have continued our rise up through the rankings to fourth in the world with the use of the best fishing products from Greys.”

I finally worked out a way to get the best out of my catch! I brought a Fish Smoker – and put in some herring, left it to smoke with the wood kindling for a wee wile and hey presto – dinner! It’s perfect for picnics, at home, riverbank and also for other things like smoked cheese and meats. Light the two meths burners, sprinkle some sawdust on the base of the smoker, add your food and put
the lid on. That’s it. There’s room for two 3-lb trout, which would take about 15 minutes to cook through. Steak and other meats taste great cooked this way too. This model is stainless steel, so resists corrosion much better than cheaper imitations. For transport, all the components stow inside the main compartment.
compartment.

Really simple to use, works great with trout and easy to clean.

Buy your Fish Smoker from Ronnie Sunshines Below:

Fish
Smoker For £28.99

Discovery Shed will be the place for men who like good old practical activities to escape to. Watch Matt Hayes’ Greatest Catches on the channel from Friday 20th March at 9pm and 9.30pm, Bob Nudd’s Right Angles follows at 10pm and 10.30pm.

Sea fishing tips

Remember the following:

• Get local knowledge on where to fish
• Read the fishing press to get an idea of what should be happening
• Look at your records to see what you were catching last year at  this time
• Start making records if you are not!!
• Speak to your local tackle shop to get good local advice
• Fish hard.
• Have plenty of FRESH bait
• Try some new ideas Read my guide for beginners to sea angling

I have cured the problem now and all should be good! Finger crossed everyone………..

Despite contacting most sea fishing tackle manufactures, very few have added me to new product lists – hence, bringing you the latest fishing tackle will be a challenge, but I have a few ideas.

I intend to increase the “Sea Fishing Marks” section of the site and bringing more “beginners guides” to the site. These are the two most popular areas of the fishing blog.

I am looking into getting a list of UK charter boats. I intend on really increasing the user satisfaction of the site in 09 and taking it to the next level.

Thank you for taking time in following us here – Roll on 2009

fall in fish stocks

We all know and hear about “The good old days” when double figure fish were common place and you would catch 10 Bass from the shore on an average day.

Well to help get your head around it a little here are a few figures on how fish stocks have fallen over the last 150+ years. This needs to slow down in my opinion or there will be nothing left in our seas soon.

Decline in Fish Stocks

• Cod stocks fallen by 98%
• Haddock stocks fallen by 90%
• Plaice stocks fallen by 90%
• Whiting stocks fallen by 70%
• Halibut stocks fallen by 98%
• Turbot stocks fallen by 95 %

Those figures are frightening. Surely we need to take action and preserve best we can with the minimal stocks are left in our seas. I have heard of small no fishing areas. I think there is one around Lundy Isle, which has seen significant increases in Crab and Lobster numbers, as well as smaller fish numbers increasing.

What do you think???

image: ezioman

Anyway, here are the results.

• Overview of world fishing – 14%
• Big Game – 14%
• UK Game fishing – 11%
• Carp fishing – 11%
• French Carp scene – 6%
• Tackle – 36%
• Clothing – 3%
• UK Jigging – 6%

So the winnner is SEA FISHING TACKLE. I have spent hours as stated before to try and bring you more information about the latest sea fishing tackle, but I am finding it a bit of a thankless task with suppliers reluctant to pass information, despite over 500 people reading this site every day…. They will learn.

I have written a few articles about Abu fishing reels as below

1. Abu Garcia Cardnal reels
2. Okuma boat and shore reels

Otherwise check out this link to the sea fishing tackle index.

Please use the contact form if you want to market your sea fishing tackle if you are a tackle supplier.