Thanks again to Christo from South Africa for this insight into his shore fishing
The tackle we use here in South Africa all depends on what type of fish you will be targeting.
For edibles like cob, spotted grunter, white steenbra’s and shad a nylon line with a diameter of around 0.40mm will be sufficient. That’s for […]

I use to try and make all my own lures, in fact if I had the time I would still be trying now. The materials I tried were wood and balsa Devon minnows, made from shaping a cigar shaped body from some dowel. Grove the dowel out where the pectoral fins would roughly be, […]

I thought I would make a digest post about the different models and makes of Kayak we have talked about here. Below are just a few of the articles on the fishing-blog written about posible Kayak choices.
Prowler 13
Ocean Malibu Two
RTM Mambo and Loko
RTM Disco
Atlantic kayaks top 6 review
If you fish from a kayak, please submit […]

Recently I was writing about reconnaissance, ie checking marks out and looking for tell tale signs of where fish might be from reading the shoreline. Today I went to a local surf beach for a session on my surf board only to discover exactly what I had been talking about. I decided not to […]

“please welcome Glenn Kilpatrick who runs the runs the Whitby sea anglers website and the Whitby fishing forum”
Fishing from the shoreline in the Whitby area can be broken down into 2 main categories of summer fishing and Winter fishing. In the summer months the mainstay of the catches are the summer species of flounder, mackerel, […]

Pink? - well that seems to be the hot wrecking fishing tip this year, pink is the new black.
Jelly worms and other lures in pink, or with pink on them seem to be out fishing other lures this year 2007. I do not know why this happens but colors seem to change and what fished […]

Glenn Kilpatrick who runs the runs the Whitby sea anglers website and the Whitby fishing forum has offered to write a few articles about sea fishing in the Whitby area.
The first post in his series will be posted this week, I have seen it already and it’s very well written with some great pictures.
Edit: 22/06/07
Glens […]

I will soon be able to get some pictures of my brothers rigged fishing kayak. He has spent the last few weeks sourcing hatches and add-ons for his Ocean Malibu 2 which I will be writing about over the next few weeks.
My Kayak despite it being rigged for my requirements still looks basically the […]

I took a trip down to the Helford river to inspect a few possible fishing marks and get an idea of the shape of the river bed and where the strongest tidal currents were and where any food stuffs may be deposited.
This is an often overlooked part of sea fishing. Whether fishing from a Kayak […]

Christo who runs www.xtremefishing.blogspot.com has kindly offered to do a set of guest post about his fishing in South Africa. This is going to be a very exciting set of posts and it will give you some food for thought. Firstly an intro post.

Hi - I’m Christo. I live in a small coastal village called […]