Well, I know its a bit sad but I thought I would make some fishing-blog tee shirts to help promote the site a bit. I made one prototype and my lads instantly wanted one each, so here they are sporting the latest from fishing-blog designs.

Recently I have been seeing lots of information about an unusual catch of the North Cornish coast, in fact 3 Greater Amber Jack caught on rod and line by a Bude angler. I tracked the fisherman down and here is the story…
Dean is a keen angler from Bude in North Cornwall. He started his passion [...]

I use an 10 foot spinning rod for float fishing from a pier, you can buy specalist pier fishing rods its upto you but a spinning rod gives you more flexibility. 10 foot is a minimum in my opinion, consider that many piers have walls that are wider at the bottom and that extra length [...]

I have recently started sea fishing and want to know how often I should change my bait?
The answer to this is the Million dollar question. You never know if a fish is just about to mouth your bait. You need to consider the situation you are in. The faster the flow or the more disturbed [...]

A quick post to answer a simple but often asked beach casting question regarding how much shock leader and what strength leader to use.
I allways as a minium; times the weight in ounces by 10 hence:-
6oz sinker = 60lb shock leader.
I would always put 5 - 7 turns on the spool and run the leader [...]

Just a quick note to tell you about a session I had last night. I was kayak fishing from Porthoustock the tide had just turned and was falling, the heat was going out of the sun and there was no wind at all.
I was using a Dexter wedge like a pirk, fishing it hard to [...]

On friday I decided to take my boys (4 and 6) on thier first boat fishing trip. I booked a 2 hr session out of Porthleven on the Starfish.
We arrived at 1330 hrs ready to meet the boat at 1400hrs, lagged in sun tan lotion, jumpers packed in bags and loads of water to drink. [...]

Casagrande Press Seeks Fishing Misadventure Stories for Publication
Got a bizarre, disastrous, or comical fishing story? Submit it for publication in the forthcoming book Fishing’s Greatest Misadventures.
Attention Fishermen: Do you have a story about the one that got away? Or a story about a fishing related calamity such as: going overboard, sinking your boat, getting attacked [...]

I bought a new Courtland saltwater fly fishing rod rod a few weeks back to match up with my Vision Koma reel. Its a weight 9 rod and it has alot of power for shooting line into head winds as well as working well with saltwater lures (generally a bit heavier than traditional flies). The [...]

Toady after a few days of manic Kayak fishing which I will write about soon I went with my brother to Porthleven. All we could see from the beach from about 17:30 onwards was huge shoals of bait fish exploding from the surface.
The fish were only about 200 yds from the shore line (at [...]