Fishing around the world….

Half Day Blues

By Stewart Downing After we had spent a few more days on the beach, recovering from our white knuckle safari, we had a half day booked with Steve to try to get Heather her first GT or Sailfish, so she was to stay in the seat until she had caught one or the other! Heather [...]

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Hemingways et al

Hemingways et al…..Pure Fishing Sales Director Stewart Downing is currently on a fishing holiday in Kenya…over the next couple of weeks I will be posting Stewart’s blogs on both the fishing and his tourist travels….. After a great reception from the Turtle Bay Beach Club staff we caught a well earned shower and headed up [...]

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New Nonofil……Super Line Video……

Berkley Nanofil takes Super Line to the next level…. This is the latest Berkley promotional video. There is nothing better for fishing soft plastics and lures…………….

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Penn Custom Reels…….Would I like some?

Let’s face it most of us are ‘tackle tarts’ at heart. Some of us collect lures perhaps not for their fish catching properties but because we like the colour, some of us collect floats, some of us hoard more flies than we will ever be able to cast at a rising fish…..some of us do all [...]

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Penn Fishing Stories…….Monster Marlin hooked on Spinning Tackle….

PENN’S CATCH CATCH LOCATION: VILANKULOS, MOZAMBIQUE I regularly follow the Penn War Fishing Stories page on Facebook and below is one that caught my imagination as a big game angler. What is amazing is the size of fish and the tackle used to hook and play the fish……. THE STORY These pictures are of a [...]

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Now this is shore fishing/

Found this clip of promotional video for the Advanced Shore Fishing Network using Penn rods and reels. Only short but very sweet………

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Big Fish Part 2 – A Giant Bluefin Tuna and A Monster Tiger Shark

Big Fish! After my last post on big fish I got to think about some of the instances where fish of ‘abnormal’ size have made an appearance when I have been out at sea. There have been a number but here are two of my own favourite encounters and indelible memories… It is August 1995 [...]

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Big Fish!

Big Fish! One of the great things about fishing offshore is that you are never sure when the fish of a lifetime may just pass you by. We could be fishing for cod and Pollock in the English Channel when a monster porbeagle decides to take one of your fish for lunch. Equally you could [...]

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Irish Spurdogs……

  Terry’s Blogs A charitable day out There is a well-known angling charity in Northern Ireland named “Angling First”. The charities’ motto reads, “Taking kids off the streets and into fishing”. Through its director, Mark McGivern and his small team of angling volunteers, the charity manages to give over  two thousand youngsters a professional angling [...]

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Big Rays from the Beach…..

Big Rays from the Beach I have just returned from a family holiday in Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura. Whilst it was a beach and relax holiday I felt that it would be a waste if I did not at least try to sample some of the fishing available….. Imagine my surprise (and my wife’s dismay/horror) [...]

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