Fishing in Shetland is something special. A couple of mates and I went up for a Kayaking trip but were lucky enough to get taken out on a Commercial Boat to get amongst some of the monster fish.
June 3rd, 2011: glorious weather, great fishing out from Dunbar with angler/ skipper Trevor Springford. Apologies for the odd splash of water on the camera lens, but the action was pretty exciting.
God bless close friend Georgina Lynch for marrying Beara Peninsula resident and artist Tim Goulding, because without cupid’s intervention I might never have discovered the wonderful sea fishing that this far flung south westerly outpost of Ireland has to offer.
Phill Dale shows how effective shad fishing from the shore can be during a session at Straumen, north Norway.
The halibut weighed 58.5 lbs, not 62 lbs as in Julian Strange’s script. And the bait was a whole squid, not a cuttlefish!
The first common skate ever landed on rod and line in the Orkney Islands. Les Moncrieff landed three and I matched that.
After three weeks lording it in the Florida Keys, Mark Harding returned suntanned and refreshed to continue his challenge to root out no less than 50 different species from around the Alderney coast.
Video from Mike Shepley. Shot on 16mm film in Orkney in June and November 1968, SEA ANGLING IN ORKNEY was Mike’s first joint venture into producing angling programmes with his friend and fishing companion, Michael Prichard.
Smoothhounds run big off the North Wales coast and the area is synonymous with some huge fish. Each year during early summer, Holyhead charter skipper Gethyn Owen is right in the thick of this spectacular action
It’s going bananas here on Alderney for the turbot, a great start to the spring for these wonderful flatfish. Last year Alderney fished terrifically well for them and this year…