How do you get soft baits like lug or sand eels 100 yards to where the fish are holding?
You spend weeks learning how to get the most from your beach casting technique and you find a mark where you can put all that practice into effect. You cast your beloved lug worm only to watch [...]

I know that rubber delta eels are not traditional, but they are a lure and modern fly fishing now uses a whole range of materials to entice a fish.
I find these lures very good for Pollock and decided to try them out on the fly rod. The results were good. I went down to Porthleven [...]

Despite the very strong winds and heavy rain I managed to go Kayak fishing today. I chose a sheltered spot out of the weather in a local estuary hoping for a Bream. I took with me 30 lug worm for bait as I have heard they are fishing better than Crab in the local area [...]

“Would you recommend a touring kayak for fishing as I am unsure what type of Fishing Kayak to buy.”
Well most Touring Kayaks tend to track well and have very good glide, meaning they travel very quickly in a straight line with minimum effort. These two factors are good as it means you can get to [...]

I am having a dry patch at the moment with very few good catches. I went to the Manacles on my fishing kayak with a live bait holder containing 12 of the strongest sand eels I have seen in a long time. I rigged up my bait caster with a running ledger using a ball [...]

Is it just me or looking through the last few months of the angling press do there seem to be more reports about Bream catches and Bream fishing methods than ever before?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this, have there been more Bream caught and if so why? Is it because people are [...]

Please check your fishing line and rod rings on a regular basis as I have heard of another person loosing a good fish because he was fishing rough ground and not checking his line for abrasions.
Damaged rings will quickly render a whole spool of line useless and rocky or even rough beach venues will quickly [...]

I am in the process I creating tutorials to show you the basics on how to make some great surf and beach casting fishing rigs.
I am currently working out the best way to create the images to allow you to easily see the components and materials used in rig building.
Please bare with me on this [...]

This is only meant as a rough guide to fish species you may expect in the specified month. Your location and local hot spots may be different to what is published here.
July sea angling shore species include,
Bass
Ray
Bream
Tope
Smoothounds
Dogfish
Bull Huss
Pouting
Flounder
Mackerel
Eels
Garfish
Mullet
Gurnard
Wrasse
Pollock
Turbot
Dab
Conger
Boat species, includes most of the above.
Ling
Coal Fish
Cod
Blue Shark
Turbot
Brill
John Dory
Gurnard
Haddock
Angler Fish

A little washing up liquid on the leader will cut through surface tension and allow your leader to cut through the water like a knife. I use the eco friendly products available from most supermarkets.