Skye Sport: Pollock on the Fly in the Scottish Islands
It’s winter in the UK and trout are off the menu, but guest writer Duncan Pepper isn’t idle – he’s out in the salt looking for crash-diving pollock
It’s winter in the UK and trout are off the menu, but guest writer Duncan Pepper isn’t idle – he’s out in the salt looking for crash-diving pollock
There are few finer things in life (for some of us, at least) than that moment when a new fishing destination comes on to your radar. It could be a virgin flats-fishing Eden in a far-off land populated by record-sized fish, or a lake right under your nose that you’d never heard of until a chance conversation with another angler. But as soon as you hear of it, you know you have to find a way of getting there. Right now, that place is Morocco.
Here’s Aussie don Peter Morse fishing the Claremont Isles – a place so remote that most of us will never cast a line there. Nothing to do but sit back, enjoy… and dream.
How about some video of redfish tailing in impossibly skinny water? Go on, you know it makes sense…
Video Goodness: Fishporn Friday Edition. Featuring tailing redfish, an awesome bonefish eat, king salmon and a man losing his battle (and rod) to a striped bass.
The best options for budget-conscious bonefishermen travelling to the Bahamas…
Current itch that needs scratching: heading off to France for some bass fishing. Here’s why…
In search of October bass on the Kerry coast in south-west Ireland. Fishipedia editor Rory Batho reports
In a little over a week, I’ll be heading to the airport, boarding a flight for Cork, and heading to the southwest tip of Ireland in search of some big autumn bass. If you know anything about bass fishing and/or Ireland, you won’t need me to quantify the excitement.
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Cool-looking film about the hunt for roosterfish from the shore along Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. But not just any old roosterfish. The quarry here is a grande; a fish of 40lb or more, caught on a fly rod. Time for a little taste: