Boat Fishing

Species spotlight: Ling

Jim O’Donnell pops in to Planet Sea Fishing and offers his tuppence worth on targeting and catching ling. Ling come from a super-order of fishes called Paracanthopterygll (cod-like fishes). They…

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Cod Bless Norway

Friends and I regularly travel to Norway to tap the spectacular sea angling now widely profiled in the angling media. Our destination this year was Koppangen, a two hour drive…

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All eyes on Orkney

The European Boat Angling Championships comes to Orkney in the summer of 2015 and the cream of Europe’s anglers will be there. David Proudfoot knows the prolific Stromness venue intimately…

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Shad Mad Cod

Editor of Boat Fishing Monthly Magazine, Dave Barham, joins the PSF team and reveals that North Sea cod have a real taste for rubber. Not long ago we all thought…

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The forgotten venue

Steve Souter reveals the bream fishing out of Littlehampton is very much alive and well. Back in the day, the port of Littlehampton was widely regarded as the very seat…

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Minehead for me

If the port of Minehead in Somerset where a woman then I’d marry her. The quality of the fishing and the great variety of species available out in the Bristol…

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Wrasse-ster Blaster

Holyhead charter skipper Gethyn Owen takes an indepth look at wrasse and how to catch them afloat. When thinking about the various species around our coasts it strikes me that…

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Sport Pirking

David Proudfoot is one of a group of well-travelled boat anglers responsible for introducing pirk casting to the UK. Deadly for cod and pollack, this constantly evolving technique has much…

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Hounds all round

Holyhead charter skipper, Gethyn Owen has been busy catching big smoothhounds since the middle of May. Here he reports on recent events aboard ‘My Way’. Based on the two previous…

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