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TOP 10 SECRETS FAMOUS ANGLERS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW

Like all sports, sea angling has a dominance hierarchy; a group of people that have risen to the top of the sport and are widely accepted to be the best. There is a phenomenon called the Pareto distribution, or 80/20 rule, which says that 20 per cent will be more productive and successful than the other 80 per cent put together. This law or rule applies to art, music, economics, sports and most other areas of life. Since the invention of forums and social media, we now know who these people are and what they catch regularly.

Most of us are not fortunate enough to be born into a situation where we have a family member who can offer us expert tutelage on how to be the best angler on the scene. Understanding how the best fishermen in the sport can achieve such remarkable or consistent results is often a mystery. We rack our brains about how it’s done, often spending many hours reading forums, blogs, magazines and books to try to better understand how we can improve. The frustrating part is that the answers aren’t often there, no matter how hard we look.

The reason such answers aren’t easily obtained, or common knowledge, is

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