Competition report: 2008 Scottish Open Boat Championships, Orkney
Caithness crew clean up at Scottish Open 45 anglers descended on the Orkney port of Stromness to fish the Scottish Open Boat Championships, a three day catch and release event…
Caithness crew clean up at Scottish Open 45 anglers descended on the Orkney port of Stromness to fish the Scottish Open Boat Championships, a three day catch and release event…
UK’s biggest junior event awards £10,000 of prizes to kids A year of hard planning went into this year’s Clyde & Western Region Open Shore Competition on Greenock Esplanade. While…
Backed by mountain and dense forest, the untamed shores of Loch Sunart could be described as fiordic in appearance. Remote but reliable for thornback rays, venues don’t come much wilder,…
Luce Bay proved a happy hunting ground for two Tynemouth AC anglers fishing on Ian Burret’s boat ‘On Yer Marks’. Eddie Harvey (pictured above) took tope to 35lb on Joey…
Dave Rogers caught over 40lb of fish in a bumper shore session at St Abbs Head. Fresh crab baits accounted for wrasse to 4lb and cod to 5lb. The bag…
The 44th Western Isles Open Boat Championships was fished out of Carloway, Isle of Lewis on July 25th & 26th in scorching heat. Light winds and flat sea conditions ensured…
Veteran angler, Graham Forbes of Inverness stands to smash the Scottish boat record for a John Dory with a fish nearly twice the size of the current best. Graham caught…
Steve Souter visits the wild and windswept beach at Sandside, Caithness in the shadow of the infamous Dounreay nuclear facility. Beaches in proximity to Caithness’s now decommissioned Dounreay nuclear facility…
David Wright of Gateshead had a great day out in Luce Bay with Ian Burrett. Strong south-easterly winds kept the boat inshore but that didn’t stop David catching over 40…
Whoever coined the phrase ‘fishing isn’t all about catching fish’ summed it up well. The benefits of sea angling go far beyond saving the price of a fish supper, says…