Fishing tackle

Save your life and buy a floatation suite for winter sea fishing.
Winter is creeping around the corner and people are getting excited about the winter species making their way closer to our shores. Hooks are sharpened and new rigs are being carefully tied. You invest all this time and money into your fishing tackle but [...]

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 am asking for your help, which is the best bass spinning rod currently on the market.
I am asked this question a lot and only having owned 3 in my time I would like your opinion as too which spinning rod you consider most suited to Bass fishing and why.
Looking at the hits this website [...]

“How many beads do I need to use when I tie a flounder fishing rig?”
The question really comes down to personal trial and error for your local flounder fishing mark. I would start by alternating 2 colours of bead, say red and black to a total of 5 beads. Then try rigs with different colours [...]

For the best fishing reel care in the world, if you are going to put your fishing reel away for a few months and want to know its dry stand it in a box with 2 inches of dry rice in the bottom for a week or two. The rice will absorb the moisture allowing [...]

I know you already do this and I am acting like mother here but from some body who never used to care about this aspect of fishing please look after your gear when you get home.
Rinse your reels, rods, used rigs, lures, wet suite, shoes in fact everything in some fresh water, then allow it [...]

This is the sand spike I have been using for about 5 months now.
It’s a great bit of fishing tackle and compared to many other sand spikes its long allowing you to fish out of the waves.
I will point out though that I generally hold the rod for best bite detection when I am [...]

Fishing hook sizes are not scaled to a world standard, but the industry comply with the following sizing structure,
32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1, 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0, 11/0, 12/0, 13/0, 14/0, 15/0, 16/0, 17/0, 18/0, [...]

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 bracket are very, [...]

Further to my post about bubble floats I have remember reading in “Hooked on Bass” (a must read for Bass fishermen) about their Jif lemon rig. This used an empty jif lemon bottle filled with wax to act as a float to cast red gill and sand eel huge distances and still surface fish.
I myself [...]