Sea Angler

Many of you only think of squid as a tasty snack in a restaurant or a good winter bait. However, squid fishing is about as addictive as anything you can target as an angler in the UK. Last year I wrote about squid and cuttle fishing in general and ho

It was just a normal morning with the usual routine: get up, a quick shower, breakfast and then checking emails, just the daily emails. Normal stuff: angling reports, some new rods to look at and loads of spam, however there was one email that caught

This trip manifested while by fishing companions Ryan, Harley, Shaun, and I wound down from a fishing session on a lonely island tucked away in the sheltered remote Western Isles of Scotland. We were deep in discussion, huddled around a fire, toastin

So far we have discussed quite a few things which can help you increase your catches when starting out as sea angler. After reading the previous three parts you will probably be left with a couple of questions: Should we hold the rod in our hands? Wh

Amroth is located between Wiseman’s Bridge and Marros in south-west Wales. If you visit over high water you will find a short, steep shingle and boulder beach backed by a concrete flood protection wall. However, if you wait for the tide to start to e

Modern mobile phones are, for the most, part pretty incredible cameras as well. Indeed, I still can’t quite believe the technology that is rammed into these things we all carry around with us. Any camera is better than no camera at all, and while I w

Arbroath, on the east coast of Scotland between Dundee and Aberdeen, is one of the most renowned winter cod fishing spots in the UK. There are a million different marks along the miles of coastline, some of them closely guarded secrets that only the

Brighton Marina has always been considered a great South Coast fishing venue with an east and a west arm that both stretch out into the open sea, with both arms open to anglers. The marina and the local beaches have always held a place very close to

The planning’s all settled and I’ll be prepared when Saturday comes. The gear is sorted, bait gathered and dug: there’ll be fish, squid and shellfish, a good pound of lug, when Saturday comes. Rigs are retied, hooks sharpened and changed, batteries c

Inshore reefs offer boat anglers the opportunity for excellent mixed fishing and, depending on your geographical location, a huge variety of different species can be caught from even the smallest patch of rough ground, even in relatively shallow wate

The year is 1921 at the Carnbase Reef, a short distance from the vaulting cliffs of Land’s End and the Longships Reef, on which in 1875 the 115ft tall lighthouse was built. The anglers were Captain Hugo Millais and his wife who over two evenings had

Some of us carry a life raft and of course hope that we will never have need to use it. For anglers, our boat usage is normally in relatively settled conditions and close to land meaning we are most likely to abandon ship in the case of fire or serio

The bay is large but this article concentrates on the area from Downderry to Rame Head. Within it is the wreck of the Liberty ship the James Eagan Layne, on the seabed since 1945, and the Frigate, Scylla, sold off by the Navy to a consortium which in

The 2022 bluefin tuna catch & release tagging research programme started on August 15th with 25 boats in England mostly in the south-west, six operating in Wales and five in Northern Ireland. As with the 2021 programme these boats are operating under

The skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, is a small to medium-sized member of the tuna family, and in my opinion a much-underrated species of sportfish. Depending on where they are caught it is referred to by various other names including bonito, ocean

When sending your question, please remember to include your name and address Bristol Channel angler James Madsen is here to solve all your shore angling problems. A Sea Angler contrbutor for over four decades specialising in casting and rod building

Fishermen have argued about rod length for as long as I can recall. My first decent beach rod was 11ft 6in, which was about the maximum length that fairly fast, reasonably stiff rods could be made from glassfibre. There were longer rods such as Longb

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Although 6500 sized multiplier reels balance well with the bass rod, most people choose the versatility of a 5000 sized fixed spool reel. It offers simple casting, a fast pick up of line and simple drag adjustment. Reels with a longer ‘long cast’ spo

I get to fish with a lot of different braids and top of the pile for me is the expensive but very long-lasting Sufix 131 braid. You do not need to spend that much money on a mainline though, and I really like coming across 150yd spools of modern brai

Tronix has just launched three new rods in the XENON range and I was given the opportunity to try them out. The price point for these rods starts at around £200 and goes up to the £300 mark for the more expensive rods in the range. There are two diff

Competing in the World Boat fishing championships in Portugal was always going to be hard as the size and types of fish are so very different from those in UK waters. Despite this the England team members were confident on their arrival in Portugal t

Last September, while on a fishing trip to Ireland, an ex-tropical storm followed by a former hurricane sought to ruin my chances of catching anything – let alone a decent-sized bass. At times the towering waves appeared apocalyptic and the sea resem

Anglers from across the UK, some travelling from as far as Ireland, Barrow in Furness in Cumbria and Yorkshire, were greeted by a stiff south-westerly wind making conditions fishable but uncomfortable. Fishing Ferrybridge, the anglers were pegged fro