Thank you, kind as always. It was a pelagic fish, it ran quicker than any shark I have hooked. It was just too big for the setup/line capacity.
Thank you, I had a PB squid or two this year but, Sam beat me in the end. He had the biggest I have seen. Was a very addictive season for them.
Superb Specimens and great pictures as well
Thanks a lot.
Crikey there’s some stonkers there mate well done. And yes, what got away??
Cheers Ollie.
Cracking fishing and excellent photography skills there.
Thank you. Though the photography credit goes to others in most cases.
Don’t let twats grind you down. Awesome fishing and thoroughly enjoyable articles in Sea Angler, with fab pics. Keep up the good work
Hello mate. TBH I am managing various pages on social media, including my own. I think the following is well over 100K people (total between pages on Facebook & Instagram). After years of doing it, the individual comments become academic, you just remove or ban them and move on. On Youtube, if you get 10% negative, you're running a good page/channel, especially on a very male-dominated platform. In recent years I have been reading a fair bit of clinical psychology, which has helped me write pieces on mental health and understand people much better. Of course, there are things that genuinely irk people and provoke a negative response, but, most of it can be put down to a few things that sit within the subconscious of the individuals lashing out; they may be oblivious. There are a lot of unhappy, frustrated people out there, even more so as economic woes increase. What I would say is; the vast majority of anglers are nice people; they're kind and wish others well. To me it's almost a tradition to encourage and help others in the sport. I remind myself that it's angling, and anglers that have given me a life in the sport I love, in some ways. So, more than anything, I am grateful. My father said, "Chris, you are a dreamer; you'll never make a living from fishing." Fishing was one of my Dad's passions too. It felt wonderful to prove him wrong. I have more free time than he ever had, and I get to live in the Channel Islands, a place that was an annual holiday for me as a kid, and I always felt sad to leave. I sat in St Peter Port in the summer, looking over the marina, having a beer and a bite to eat, and I thought about how my dream place as a kid had become home.
Thank you for the kind words about the Sea Angler articles. I need to get back to more experiential in 2023. Perhaps I'll get my website setup and start posting more regularly there, too.
Cheers
Chris
Thank you.
Top bombing mate. Amazing pictures as always. Love them and miss the regular updates.
Cheers mate. I'll try to get a few more done. I have a chest freezer full of mackerel, launce, squid and cuttle, need to start firing some at those huss, tope and conger eels.
Thank you very much. That was my original reason for posting back in 2009, to inspire others and share my adventures through words and pics. Plenty of others inspire me.
Indeed
Some nice fish there ckb.
And to some of you, if you can not say anything nice, say nothing at all.
Cheers.
Huh..? What..? Guess they were removed.
How can anyone be anything but inspired by those photos...
Great stuff, made me want to pick my rods up...
Thanks a lot, Andy. If we all got out and wet a line more often, we'd be a lot happier. Up in Scotland the other week, the fishing seemed secondary with all of the otters, seals, mink and birds of prey about. I sat fascinated by nature.
