This year’s EFSA Scotland Cod Championships at Arbroath turned into a real battle of the Champions as previous winners Peter Redshaw, Steve Souter, Scott Gibson, Billy Murray and Jim Henderson,…
Cold Northerly winds have disappointed those hoping for some early mackerel, but boats continue to report some big shoals just offshore, and settled conditions over the next period of big…
Durham angler Sam Bland had an interesting trip recently. Taking the mainline train to Newcastle with all of his gear he ended up at South Gosforth having got on the…
Shore angling has been quiet lately with few club matches being held, most clubs are now waiting until the end of May for their summer season to start. The rivers…
Lots of smaller species are dominating shore angling at present with just the odd chance of a bigger spring flounder or whiting among them. Â Fishing down the pier sides for…
After an early, warm start to the spring, local commercial boats out of Hartlepool report mackerel are now only around 6 miles offshore, and one local skipper qoutes “thornback rays…
We left Oban slipway at 09:00 aboard the Laura Dawn II skippered by Ronnie Campbell on a bright but sharp December morning. By ten o’clock the boat had settled at…