Recent content by Ianpick

Last year, the first I heard of bream showing on Yarmouth Pier was on May 5th. I know they have been around for a good few weeks this year already, but I hadn't seen one. I was booked for something else in the afternoon so my only chance to go and find out for myself was a trip out over low at...

I was hoping to ask him how to understand the female mind.

Nicky77 is an AI bot I think

I think Nicky77 is an AI bot

I'd heard rumours of smoothounds in the Solent so went and had a look for myself yesterday. First drop, the smallest dogfish ever caught. Bigger dogs followed as did a pout and a whiting then a nice little smoothy of around 2lbs. A conger at about 5lb made it 5 species so a decent 3 hours on the...

I went out fishing yesterday, report elsewhere, and gave the boat a bit of a blow. Unfortunately the bottom is filthy so max speed was just 17mph, plan in place to get the barnacles of soon. In a straight line it did feel good and there was no peering over the bow to see where I was going at 6/7...

I've just fitted a Hydrofoil to my Tohatsu 9.8 piece of cake to fix even hanging over the back of the boat at high water. First impressions are very good. Very little front lift and much quieter, (I assume it is spreading the exhaust gases over a wider area and less turbulence from the prop)...

Starting at the reel end you'll need your mainline, 15/18lb breaking strain will do from the shore, (most of the time). Attached to the mainline is the shockleader. This should go around your reel five or six times, more won't matter, up through the rings of your rod out through the tip eye by...

Deliberately targeting spawning pollock is criminal. That particular skipper should be ashamed of himself. Fast forward a few years when all the breeding stock has been wiped out. Mothballing the commercials for 5 years and allowing stocks a little time to recover, would cost the government...

I remember a TV programme about a commercial skipper who netted wrecks and cleared them of all the pollock. When asked why they were there and he was able to catch so many he said it was because they were spawning. Fast forward a few years......

Couldn't agree more but something has to change and starting with our own 12 mile limit would be a good place. Have a look at what Iceland did in the 1970s.

At this moment a commercial fishing boat is pulling a trawl net with a cod end full of dead fish around the sea just over the horizon from where you stand on your favourite fishing mark. It's probably not a British boat. And you want to take a couple of bass or pollock home????!!

As far as the British public is concerned I believe we can make do with farmed bass, bream and rainbow trout, and cod from the managed Icelandic fishing stocks. Ban all commercial fishing that uses nets in UK waters then wait at least five years. Just imagine that happening; uproar from the...

Master the OTG first. It's significantly easier to execute and will give you almost as much distance. A good OTG cast is half of a pendulum cast in procedure but only a few yards shorter and can be done more safely if there are other people on the beach.

I will be out on my boat during the winter but it is weather dependant and good days are less frequent for the next few months. The first time I ever went out on it I had to lift the ice out of the bottom before pumping the rain water out.