Goby slayer nounNot to be confused with insanity (or anyone with murderous intentions), someone who enjoys targeting gobies. Fashionable fish they are not, the majority of them are tiny and go unnoticed… Gobies aren’t top of most angler’s wish-lists; to the species hunter though, they are a goldmine. If, like me, you enjoy geeking out…
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YouTube – The Big Lerf 2020
Here is 48 hours condensed into just over 17 minutes. Thanks to my fishing buddy Richard Salter for keeping the GoPro on and putting this together. For more reading on The Big Lerf 2020 please check out the links below… Follow me on Instagram & Facebook for regular lure fishing content…
Understanding The Weever Fish
I’m standing on the edge of a harbour wall, the ancient stone it’s made from having kept countless winter storms at bay. Now the weather is very far from stormy, it’s gloriously settled. The sun slowly sizzling my exposed shoulders, dancing off the gently rippling sea below. Both the sky and sea are mirrored blue,…
Review – Berkley Gulp!
Having recently reviewed Marukyu Isome, it would be amiss of me to not dedicate some words to the other brand of scented worms – Berkley Gulp!. The Rolling Stones to Isome’s Beatles, this American rival to Marukyu’s crown as greatest ‘fake bait’, is equal to or maybe even superior to the Japanese brand. I recently…
Mount Batten LRF – A New Rod & A Big Wrasse
Plymouth has a lot of well known fishing marks, one of the most popular and reliable is Mount Batten Pier. Although technically a breakwater, being built into the seafloor and surrounded with large boulders. It is an icon of the Plymouth foreshore and a top notch place to catch fish. I cut my teeth here…
The Cornish Lure Festival 2019
It was that time of year again, a group of LRF anglers made the pilgrimage to Art Of Fishing in Wadebridge. The reason? To slog it out to claim the CLF 19 trophy, fishing over 48 hours hoping to catch as many different species on lures as possible. Now, I could just tell my story…
How I Catch – Long Spined Sea Scorpion
Long spined sea scorpion, scorpion fish, lsss, bullhead, sculpin, this is a fish of many names. I have written about them before for the website, Fishing Tails, here. I have caught plenty of them this year though so, not being one to waste photos, while also loving this mean little fish, this is my guide…
How I Catch – Gurnard
Recently I have made more of an effort to target one of my favourite species, the tub gurnard; in the process I also caught a few of the grey variety too. This blog will be about how I go about that, particularly as I have been asked the question a few times on social media…
Light Rock Fishing – Soft & Scented Lures
Lures… The bane of the angler’s wallet! If you are a dedicated or even casual lure fisherman then, at some point, you have spent far too much money on them. There’s a reason why there are giant companies like Savage Gear, Fox Rage, Fiiish etc. We are more like magpies than humans sometimes. I am…
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