It wasn’t that many months ago that I found myself thinking that the days of overseas press trips for the launch of new angling products were a thing of the past, yet another casualty of the pandemic. Over the years I have attended many events all around Europe and Scandinavia, events that have usually been organised by the manufacturers of the boats, engines and marine electronics I review for Sea Angler.
Then, one morning, an email pinged into my inbox. I opened it and was delighted to discover it was an invitation to fly to Alicante to ‘assess and try out’ a selection of the latest products from the various brands distributed by Navico UK Ltd, the parent company for several leading manufacturers of electronics that are the product of choice
