Surely when you are fishing you want to use stealth and hide the fact there is a fishing line?
Well, this is a subject of many debates and on the whole it’s a true and correct statement. Your line that goes to the bait i.e. the leader or snood should, in clear water not be visible. […]

The term fishing refers to the act of hunting fish and other aquatic animals such as shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles and frogs. However hunting of whales is not included in this category. The art of fishing can be traced back to about 10,000 years during the Mesolithic period. Though our ancestors used fishing as a […]

From Caltutta
Ultra braid is the most advanced super braid available. Its produced from Gel-spun polyethylene fibres which creates an ultra smooth round braid, which has the added bonus of a smaller diameter, longer life and superior knot strength. This product is available in Moss Green and HI vis Yellow.
Braid allows far better bite detection and […]

I read this article about trout fishing and I really enjoyed it and thought it would be worth sharing with you all.
My story of catching this lovely trout probably started a few nights before. Probably when I realised that I had run out of olive klinks or even tiny cdc patterns. I then spend a […]

A great tackle shop carrying a huge stock, including bait.
Abu Garcia, Daiwa, Penn, Century, Shakespeare, Mustad, Berkley, Ultima Lines, Coleman, Petzel, and more.
This tackle shop is located in the Cornish fishing village of Porthleven, 3 miles from Helston and about 14 miles from Falmouth and Penzance.
The near by beach of Loe bar offers great beach […]

The Bass is considered by many sea anglers to be the marine game fish, it is a relative of the American Bass, which is more prone to lures than its British relvatives. The species is caught by novices who lack casting skills, due to its fondess of the shore line. At night Bass will often […]

Barbel are the most revered of all river fish coarse fish. This is due to that the barbel is definately to hardest fighting river fish, and the hardest fighting coarse fish in my opinion. When a Barbel is hooked, it uses muscle power in the current to create an awetsome fight, which will either leave […]

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Spinning rods, usually in the range of 1.5 - 2.6 m length are used for bass and salmon fishing, trolling and still fishing with live bait. Ultra-light spinning and casting rods used for fishing smaller species are very small in size. Ice Fishing Rods are very short spinning rods about 24-36 inches in length. These […]

When Dave Havers of Tacklebargains.co.uk called me to say he’d got a batch of carp rods in for reduced clearance, I must say, I was over to see him in a shot. Don’t get me wrong, I’m more than happy with the Sportex rods I had built around four years ago, but just lately there […]