Species-chasing Mark Harding tops a landmark 40 species en route to what he hopes will be a magical final year’s total of 50… or maybe even more!
Boat Fishing
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Prominent Stornoway Sea Angling Club Member, Ally Campbell, offers an insight into one of the busiest and most prosperous clubs in the country, and reports on two fantastic recent charter …
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Late summer wreck trips for bream and tope are what boat fishing dreams are made of as far as Isle of Wight angler Des Westmore is concerned.
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Irish angler Ashley Hayden describes a day when a conger trip from Kilmore Quay turned into an all action tope fest.
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Accomplished boat anglers Ian McLean and Mike Patten are pernickety when it comes to plastics for general pollack, bass and cod fishing. The pair are seldom seduced by new ‘wonder’ …
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Nigel Hearn runs a charter boat around the Lofoten Islands in north Norway, here he reports on the 2011 season so far.
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AlderneyBoat FishingFeaturesSpecies ID
ALDERNEY species mission: Turbot Torture
by Mark Hardingby Mark HardingAfter three weeks lording it in the Florida Keys, Mark Harding returned suntanned and refreshed to continue his challenge to root out no less than 50 different species from around …
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Smoothhounds run big off the North Wales coast and the area is synonymous with some huge fish. Each year during early summer, Holyhead charter skipper Gethyn Owen is right in …
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Surdogs, or spurs for short, are not difficult to accurately identify. The upper body is dark grey, usually with a dash of white spots, while the belly area is white.
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AlderneyBoat FishingFeaturesShore Fishing
ALDERNEY species mission: March Malaise
by Mark Hardingby Mark HardingMark Harding’s obsessive quest to top 50 species in a year ashore and afloat in Alderney waters enters a testing period during the generally dull month of March. Unperturbed though, …
