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    Gran Canaria 2025

    First day was a travel nightmare so didn’t fish. Second day was a chill out around the pool with the family and a late afternoon foray along the rocks around Sardina looking for somewhere free of anglers and out of the strong NE trade wind. Lots of locals fishing, but, at our 5th spot we...
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    South West Tamar trip

    Went out to fish the Tamar early today whilst it was quiet. One rod and some frozen bait only, just clear my head and enjoy some peace. The long and short of it was 1 dog, 1 pout and 10 whiting about 14-16oz each, peas in a pod, sadly no decent ones, but, welcome easy session none the less. Most...
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    South West Struggling, but, not a blank

    This has been the slowest year for me that I can remember for lure fishing for Bass in Devon. However, got out again yesterday and tried to hit a normally reliable spot, the water was coloured with what looked like algal bloom, lots of weed too, no cormorants, little signs of inshore life and my...
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    South Wales Week in Pembrokeshire

    Many thanks to all those who helped in advance, much appreciated, as promised here is my holiday report. Sorry if it is too long and boring again🤦‍♂️ Saturday 1st June Arrived and went down to our local beach for evening low tide, covered the whole beach and found a 35cm schoolie at the far...
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    South West Schoolie bashing only

    Bit of sun and warmth, meant that life should start flooding back into the inshore waters, so took my youngest out for an early BH start. Got to the mark and my heart sank, no bird life and no obvious signs. Still waded around the shallows to a rocky outcrop we like and there was definitely more...
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    Informative article for the holiday angler

    I have not written this info or have any link to the company, but, wanted to share it as it is superb. https://riggedandready.net/blogs/the-best-travel-rod-in-the-world-probably/rock-fishing-bait-and-tactics-the-ultimate-guide If you want to have some successful and easy fishing when away then...
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    South West Start of the bass lure season

    Having suffered a few blanks, awful floodwater and shocking winds, I was desperate to finally catch a bass on lures. The tide wasn't great, the viz was worse than I thought and there had been so sign of life when I visited the mark the previous week, but, the warm spring sunshine convinced me to...
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    Northern Gran Canaria holiday report

    Just back from an extended family holiday to Northern Gran Canaria, because it was with all of the extended family, there was less fishing time. Research leading up to the holiday did not inspire confidence. As ever youtube was very insightful and some the regular vloggers from Gran Canaria were...
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    Trip to Valencia, bit of a non report, but, hopefully useful if you fancy a trip.

    We have just returned from a short stay just south of Valencia and in terms of catches it was a bit of a non event. I picked up a nasty D&V bug from somewhere and so my fishing was limited to a grand total of about 1 1/2 hrs🤦‍♂️ Still wasn’t a blank as I landed 2 Palometa and a yellow finned...
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    South West Brief catch up

    My thanks to @Tatunka joe for confirming the quality of Stuart Pike who runs Orca out of Beer, a cracking evening trip despite it being lumpy. We caught bream and the boys had a great time. Useful lesson on the importance of rigs too, Stuart’s rigs made of lighter fluoro caught all the bream...
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    South West Chesil today, help needed

    Checking xc every hour on Tuesday and Wednesday, I had a feeling it would be good for a rare beach fishing trip to Chesil to snag a codling. A quick phone around the east Devon/ West Dorset tackle shops proved that lugworm were in short supply, but, managed to track some fresh blacks down. Got...
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    South West Bass on the lures

    After the half decent bass at Big Lerf, I thought some more exploration of old marks was required. Got there just after high tide, lovely colour again to the water, with a small swell creating great conditions again. Again loads of birds around about a mile offshore, everything felt good. Given...
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    South West The Big Lerf competition

    The Big Lerf My boys are lure fishing nuts and wanted to fish the Big Lerf comp in Plymouth, so regardless of my own feelings I signed them up and agreed to take them around for a long day targeting as many species as possible on lures. Firstly, let me say we don’t sea fish LRF much at all, my...
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    South West More lure fishing and a welcome first for the year

    On my recent gurnard trips I noticed there were loads of baitfish at the marks, nothing obviously hitting them, but, enough to make me think a dawn session would be good to try for bass. Down to the mark for 04:00 and it was stunning as ever, sadly no evidence of the baitfish, but, confidence...
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    South West Gurnard on lures

    I have a weird obsession bouncing jigs to catch gurnard, so having seen some of the LRF crew catching a few I thought it would be worth a go. First session I managed a complete blank ad I got the tides wrong and the weed was horrendous. Second session, the wind was tricky, but, having cycled...
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    South West Beaten by my youngest

    After our successful mission to a new venue last week, my youngest who mussed out wanted to have a go so we returned. Fishing more of the ebb and over low this time, it was a struggle to be honest. Fortunately, the boys stuck at it, changing lures and moving after a couple of casts to try and...
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    South West More lure shenanigans

    My eldest finished one of his GCSE’s so I thought a little R and R by the sea would help clear his head before cracking on with more revision. Off to fish a new mark to us both, a large sandy estuary with lots of current. As per our fishing a similar mark in Kerry, we fished soft paddle tail...
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    South West Bassing on the north coast

    Went out on a guided trip with Aaron from Waterfront Tackle in Bude as I struggle with lures even more than normal when fishing the north coast and wanted to get some tips on what I was doing wrong. Had a great evening going to somewhere I have never been before, using a new tactic to me - SG...
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    South West Bass lure fishing begins without the expected blank🥳

    Motivation has been at an all time low since our Madeira trip, however, building tides and an overnight low of only 9c saw me drag my arse from bed at 04:30 this morning. Thought I was going to have to resort to soft plastics at the mark, but, to my delight there was signs of fish hunting on the...
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    Madeira Jan 2023

    Madeira the return After 3 long years we finally got the chance to get back to Madeira and boy did it feel good to escape the UK, even if Madeira was having its coldest winter in years. Once again we were staying in Calheta as it is one of the sunniest and most pleasant places on the island...
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