Beach casting

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 go [...]

“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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

I thought I should share this with you. Many of you will know all about rip currents and how dangerous they are when you are in the sea. They are a water flow created by the shape of the sea bed and the coast line where water rushes away from the beach and out to [...]

Hi there and thank you for reading this post, as over the past month we have seen a huge spike in traffic. We are seeing a massive amount of traffic suddenly coming to this site and I just want to say thank you. We are seeing people staying here for longer, the kayak and beach [...]

Zach asked about buying fishing rods and reels. I thought that others may find use of my opinions so I posted the reply here instead of simply replying to Zach. Zach, I am guessing you are not from the UK ! But my advice to you would be, rods in the £50 - £100 price [...]

Just a quick post about when to fish for Mackerel. I only remembered this today while I was driving to the sea. It’s a very simple rule that I was told many years ago and I remember that it works as a basic rule of thumb. Its as simple as when you start to see [...]