Just wishing you all a very happy new year and wishing you the best years sea fishing. Lets try and smash our personal best fish, catch those new species and cast that extra yard in 2008.
I look forward to hearing about your trials and sucess stories on the fishing blog and its forum in the […]

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Blueys are shit - that was the start of a thread with Marlin posting about the lack of success seen with this bait compared to Mackerel, fresh and frozen. I tended to agree with this, favouring local baits. However Boiliestop talks about recent success with this new bait.
In the shore fishing forum […]

Simple, happy and full of joy - I wish you the best Christmas ever and the happiest new year.
Tight lines
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There are many types of shore fishing depending on the type of ground you are fishing. I would suggest that you get some local knowledge and try and pinpoint some marks that do not require huge casts to locate fish holding areas.
Marks that in the summer that hold Garfish and Mackerel can provide you some […]

Natural or man made these locations are very accessible and are good for cutting your teeth and as you improve your cast they can provide some great sea angling.
The fact that you generally have a solid, stable wall to fish from makes casting easy and you generally do not have to cast miles to locate […]

A valuable source of differing species, that can be fished for in most conditions. Be careful of very strong currents, watch your footing.
To describe an Estuary would be to say, it is the tidal zone of a river where it joins the sea with water changing from fresh through brackish to saltwater along it’s length. […]

Well I took my own advice and decided to make the most of the stormy weather and get on the beach for a session of beach casting. The target species were Cod, Whiting and Dog fish, but it wasn’t to be.
Going Sea Fishing
A few friends from work arranged to joined me on the beach. We […]

A question asked recently by a reader on the fishing-blog was how do I detect a bite when I am sea fishing. There is no simple answer and it depends upon a lot of factors which I will try and explain in a bit of detail below.
How to detect a bite
There are many factors that […]

Hook – Made up of the eye, shank, bend and barb. You can get barb-less hooks
Treble – 3 hooks attached with 1 eye.
Leader – length from main line to lure.
Shock leader – when you are casting, for safety you need a length of leader which is 5 -7 turns on the reel then .5 times […]