These articles will look at the pros and cons of different aspects of lure fishing that I come across during the course of every season. Hopefully you will be able to find something in here that helps you make the right choice at the checkout leading to more takes, enabling you to put more fish on the bank. I tend to use fairly light tackle as I don’t really pursue out size specimen fish, preferring to fish for takes rather than monsters, but that doesn’t mean using tackle that is so light it breaks easily. Modern tackle is of outstanding quality compared to what was available even 15 years ago and that enables us to use light gear that is very strong. Fish lost due to line breakage should be a thing of the past now.

Talking about the gear that we use

It shouldn’t matter, in fact it doesn’t matter, whether we use the most expensive tackle on the market or the cheapest; we go fishing to enjoy ourselves and have fun. But luckily for the tackle manufacturers, the time-poor lives that most anglers lead, leave us little option but to fish remotely through the tackle catalogues and websites in those odd moments when there isn’t enough time to get to the water. The next best thing to going fishing is talking about fishing, so this part of my website is devoted to the gear and the techniques that we use and how we can employ them to our best advantage.

Tools of the trade

Please click on the kingfisher symbols below to read technical articles:

Crankbait capers

Coping with climate

Why lures?

Rapala Tail dancers

Of rods & reels

More in hope...

Worm casts