What’s Your View? In the competition world of sea angling a contentious subject for a number of anglers is the option of fishing pegged or rover matches. A lot of matches are now pegged, a large number are also rovers. The purist match anglers often see rover matches as an easy opportunity for unscrupulous anglers…
Once the angling bug had bitten me as a youngster, my Dad soon had me enrolled as a member in the Workington British Steel’s Angling Club. The local steelworks was at the ‘front and centre’ of the local community as an employer, recreationally and socially. The steelworks wages fuelled the local and wider economy. It…
Shortly before the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were implemented I managed to squeeze in a beach fishing session for the plaice that arrive on our local beaches in February and March after spawning. I chose to fish on the sand at the northern end of Maryport Promenade known as Bankend Farm. The sandy area is a…
Since my early days when I started fishing as a young boy I soon realised the sea and coastline should be afforded respect. It could be a dangerous place to spend your time and I learned some early lessons. This era was the pre-package holiday years, so local families holidayed mostly at home and went…
As I wrote in my previous article we have seen massive changes over the past couple of decades in the fish quality, numbers and species around our West Cumbrian shores. The huge shoals of pouting have disappeared, the cod stocks have diminished in both quantity and size. The prolific flounder fishing that was enjoyed at…
Many moons ago, aged 8 or 9 years old, I began sea fishing with my father. My dad had bought some of the latest fishing gear an Edgar Sealy Sea Spray beach caster and a Garcia Mitchell 602 multiplier reel. The bug didn’t bite my Dad, but it bit me hard and the passion began! …
I started fishing in the late 60s and climate change was not a topic on the lips of the public nor the general media. Today it is recognised as one of the greatest threats to our natural world and mankind itself. As I write this, Covid-19 is wreaking havoc around the world killing thousands and…
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