Not pre-rigging my soft plastics has worked great, pretty sure I’ve been using the same four weedless hooks all year
Gear of the Year 2021
If a lot of fishing is confidence, then trusting completely in your terminal tackle when a fish of a lifetime comes along is pretty handy
15% off everything at Veals Mail Order today, ends at midnight tonight (good luck finding the Slammer 2500, I’m having them all!)
20% off some specific items of lure fishing tackle that I use all the time, valid until 3pm today
I love it when one of the really good guys in fishing lands their fish of a lifetime - well done Marc Cowling!
This is where I’m at with the various wading boots I’ve been trying this year
A while back I made sure to always have a long-range sprat imitation lure in whatever lure boxes I take out with me - because it does pay off……….
Savage Gear SGS5 9’6’’ 9-35g lure rod review - around £160 (should I be reviewing a fishing rod I helped develop?)
The biggest bass I have seen this year. So far…………….
Heading home today, some tough bass fishing conditions but some pretty epic pollack fishing
Finessing the bejaysus out of some fine Irish pollack
Isolation over, driving to Ireland today for some more co-guiding work, new Penn Slammer IV reels are starting to appear in the UK
Interested to see what this new sub-£150 Savage Gear SGS8 4000 spinning reel is like (I was nothing to do with its development so it’s brand new to me)
Some of the gear that worked and didn’t work so well in Ireland, always interesting how different anglers and guides do things
Bass are great, but we’ve used this glorious weather/trickier bass conditions to also do some awesome pollack fishing out here
First group has left, second group arrives this afternoon, I didn’t quite appreciate how much I have missed all this
Amazing first day and a bit of guiding with our first group, damn it feels so good to be back out here and I get to call this work!
Bumping lures along the bottom in a fast current - is there a more exciting hit and scrap in bass fishing?
I’m no reel technician, but the first thing I do when my reel suddenly sounds “raspy” is oil or grease the line roller
