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catching a monster porbeagle and a monster thresher shark, again both dinghy caught, recalled by Graeme Pullen. Podcast Interview 145: Roger Beer, Shore Rays: Recorded in 2013. Shore ray expert Roger Beer discusses his tactics and tackle for catching an assortment of big rays from a variety of Devon rock marks, catches that have included shore records for both the small eyed and spotted ray. Podcast Interview 146: Dick Clegg OBE, MBE, England manager: Recorded in 2013. Without doubt, Dick Clegg has been not only the most successful national team manager in coarse fishing history, but also most successful manager in any sport engaged in by participants representing this country, resulting in an OBE and an MBE to add to his many trophies and gold medal wins, all of which, along with other aspects of his life, he discusses in candid detail here. Podcast Interview 147: Richard Peirce, Shark Trust: Recorded in 2013. Shark Trust and Shark Conservation Society Chairman Richard Peirce discusses sharks in UK waters, looking at the role anglers both can and do play in the science behind the trust's work. Suggestions for better handling and conservation generally by anglers is also discussed. Podcast Interview 148: Alan Scotthorne, the World’s Top Coarse Angler: Recorded in 2013. With five world individual titles and numerous team titles, Alan Scotthorne is without equal the greatest coarse angler in the history or international match fishing. Podcast Interview 149: Sandra Scotthorne, World Champion Female Coarse Angler: Recorded in 2013. Ladies in angling are quite a rare commodity. Ladies in Coarse match angling well capable of taking on and beating their male counterparts are almost unheard of. Here five times world team gold medal winner and twice individual world champion Sandra Scotthorne takes an in depth look at the lady’s international scene. Podcast Interview 150: John Bamford, Friends Of The River Yarrow: Recorded in 2013. While the group, Friends of the River Yarrow formed primarily to ensure the entire environment on and around the River Yarrow in Lancashire has been restored, there is no denying that fish have probably been the main beneficiaries. It has quite literally gone from running sewer to running salmon, and stands out as an object lesson to others who may want to restore lost fisheries to their former glory. Podcast Interview 151: Dave Trafford, Canal Match Fishing: Recorded in 2013. Back in the 1970's, Dave Trafford was a keen and successful coarse match angler who took a time out from angling, twenty five years in fact, before coming back onto the canal match angling scene, by which time so much had changed. Now able to compare and contrast the two era's which are a generation apart, here he takes a look at those changes, plus his current match situation. Podcast Interview 152: Didier Dellanoy, French coarse angling world champion: Recorded in 2013. French 2013 world coarse fishing individual gold medal winner Didier Dellanoy offers his thoughts on his win, his behind the scenes preparation including practise here in the UK, and the current England set up during a stay with multiple world champions Alan and Sandra Scotthorne. Podcast Interview 153: Paul Maris, Big Fish UK: Recorded in 2014. Paul Maris, who is one of the Essex Boys, talks here about his big saltwater fish exploits in the UK, including the biggest ever one man one day Common Skate haul which saw him constantly playing big fish for well over four hours. Podcast Interview 154: Eddie Mounce, MD Fish Thailand: Recorded in 2014. Eddie Mounce set up Fish Thailand as a business while back packing after graduating from university with a degree in fisheries management. Here he talks about the wonderful fishing, the fisheries, and the future of targeting some of the biggest freshwater fish in the world. 566
Podcast Interview 155: Ally Gowans, Scottish Salmon: Recorded in 2014. Ally Gowans is arguably the most inventive and skilled angler on the current salmon fishing scene. His fly the Ally Shrimp was voted by salmon anglers as the fly of the millennium. Here he discusses this and some of his other patterns, plus the fish weight calculator, conservation, fly fishing history, and of course salmon fly fishing itself. Podcast Interview 156: Paul Maris, Marlin World Championships: Recorded in 2014. Part two of a two part interview with Essex Boy Paul Maris. This episode looks at the Essex Boys big fish exploits abroad, and in particular the marlin world cup and completing the billfish royal slam. Podcast Interview 157: Leon Roskilly, Mullet: Recorded in 2014. To most sea anglers, mullet are looked upon as either un-catchable or hardly worth the massive amount of effort required for precious little return. But with the right approach, that need not always be the case. Leon Roskilly explains. Podcast Interview 158: Leon Roskilly, Angling politics: Recorded in 2014. Most anglers prefer to leave their hobby related politics to a small number of able volunteers who tirelessly work on our behalf. The least we could do then is support them. But to do this, we first need to understand the issues. Here Leon Roskilly explains IFCA's, MCZ's, and the Sea Angling 2012 survey. Podcast Interview 159: Alex MacDonald, Redgill Lures: Recorded in 2014. The most iconic lure of the twentieth century has to be the redgill. A small rubber eel devised by Alex Ingram of Mevagissey which revolutionised the world of wreck fishing. Now a part of the Sakuma portfolio and still catching lots of fish, particularly from the shore, here Sakuma MD Alex MacDonald looks at the lure and its history. Podcast Interview 160: Tommy Flower, Carp: Recorded in 2014. Carp are the 'in' fish currently on the coarse fishing scene, and while it hasn't always been that way, Tommy Flower wasn't around in the pre-boilie commercial fishing era, so who better to ask for a different perspective on the subject. Podcast Interview 161: Alex MacDonald, Gilthead Bream: Recorded in 2014. Gilthead bream first appeared on the scene in the 1980's, initially as occasional migrants, but eventually establishing themselves as regular visitors to certain estuaries in the west country where a targeted fishery has sprung up tapping into their hard fighting capabilities. Here Alex MacDonald of Sakuma Tackle sings the praises of the species. Podcast Interview 162: Tim Macpherson, Kingmere Bream: Recorded in 2014. Black bream and their habitat along the iconic Kingmere Rocks in Sussex are currently under so much threat that a campaign group has been set up to try to reverse the trend before all is lost. Instrumental within that group is Tim Macpherson who joins us here to explain the problem, and how both it and the potential remedies could have profound knock on consequences for other ailing fisheries around the UK. Podcast Interview 163: Jim Whippy, Boat Fishing Monthly Editor: Recorded in 2014. Arguably the most widely capped England boat fishing international ever, Jim Whippy talks about his sea fishing and his time at the helm of some of the country’s best known sea angling magazines. Podcast Interview 164: Alex MacDonald, Sakuma: Recorded in 2014. Alex MacDonald, MD of hook designers, manufacturers and importers Sakuma, talks about all aspects of hook design, choice and usage. Podcast Interview 165: Sarah Collins, GhoF: Recorded in 2014. Get Hooked on Fishing CEO Sarah Collins discusses the aims and successes of a charitable project designed to promote fishing to younger people, and in particular those with social problems. 567
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THE ACTUAL BUCKET LIST 100 species
Colin Penny: skipper of the Weymout
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page The Actual B
Long Rough Dab 153 Turbot 154 Brill
Introduction to the Gobies 251 Blac
Bitterling 322 Gudgeon 323 Bleak 32
Spain 479 Thailand 479 Tunisia 484
As always, with any sort of ambitio
Working in conjunction with these i
viviparous reproduction, and the me
possible, use a landing net, and th
Only when a world record claim was
pectorals, with the second dorsal d
The harbour itself completely dries
Nor can weights be estimated by usi
shark and porbeagle exploits, all o
Mincing also makes demands on the m
Plymouth and some of the surroundin
That however isn't the entire story
Mark Ward, 71 pound Norfolk Tope I
off around Shell Wharf to the south
Network (SSACN), and it was on thes
COMMON SMOOTHHOUND Mustelus mustelu
But you would be wrong. Because exp
There are lots of good smoothhound
But it was a long hard fought campa
The object of the exercise was to c
LESSER SPOTTED DOGFISH Scyliorhinus
One of the few occasions when I can
When they were more numerous than t
With its recent history, can there
Getting back to the history of thos
Ross Johnson, skate from the shore
From the shore, obviously, it won't
I remember one particular fish that
have a lot to do with numbers, dist
That said, I have on occasion been
I once took a bucket full of live m
With fast tides, a profusion of ban
igger than ten pounds, then it's a
Spotted Rays also lack rough prickl
A strikingly beautiful fish which e
An occasional specimen might even t
Most of the time we spent fishing i
Another of those at best rarely rep
A much smaller fish of more souther
As with all species, and for a rang
Our first trips didn't exactly ligh
etween Christmas and the last big t
The Fylde would fish best after a b
Muppets too began to appear in a ra
own boat over there to fish the rou
Colouration and lateral line are tw
Deep diving plugs too, providing th
pollack have a protruding lower jaw
The upper flanks and back have been
From my own experience, certainly f
photograph of a whiting he'd caught
s monofilament to help eliminate se
fishermen, presented as a flapper,
mouth is noticeably dark. There can
LING Molva molva Bucket List status
Mac McAllister, Whitby Ling Now, th
GREATER FORKBEARD Phycis blennoides
In common with all the rocklings, t
SHORE ROCKLING Gaidropsarus mediter
I used to tag along to collect dise
As with the more familiar flounder
fish, little realising that they we
Though it was still very early in t
A fish with a distribution potentia
aits, and a tiny sliver of squid or
e enough to push them right out wit
Hooks obviously can be bigger where
He also uses this description for t
I spent some time chatting to Paul
fin extending right around to the h
Whatever the reason, it did actuall
From the shore it's slightly differ
161 And if you are not holding your
MEGRIM Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis B
Colouration is brown with some dark
Dan Burrows, Fleetwood Because of m
Where there are still a few bass le
ecruitment in the face of imminent
As ever, there was always the dange
The EU is relying on existing enfor
The total reduction in fishing mort
south, as it is a common enough fis
A fish with a large mouth and power
weaning these otherwise algae graze
spots, and put in the time both swi
Ollie Stenning, 8.7.4 Thin Lip reco
Despite living nearby in Hampshire,
Simply fold the pectoral fin forwar
Otherwise, a family of fishes of vi
epeated off the Yorkshire coast. Ye
were forced to remove their fightin
So far as I can ascertain, this is
different scales starting at the gi
everywhere as was once the case. Wi
Quite an unusual visitor to our pat
Four of us we were drift fishing a
Physically, the almaco is a slightl
Already we are seeing that, not onl
the end of the trip, still with no
I've had it happen to me on more th
What clinched that line of thinking
much stronger sharper hooks, and bu
Mike Thrussell, Gilthead Bream I ha
BOGUE Boops boops Bucket List statu
AXILLARY BREAM Pagellus acarne Buck
Caught out, instead of reversing th
The biggest of the four was put at
So there I am winding in, certain I
CUCKOO WRASSE Labrus mixtus Bucket
For deliberately targeting them, th
The scientific wisdom suggests it t
As is the trend with most of the gu
In this particular case however, re
Although I've never caught one myse
So you can expect to see them in mo
The knock on effect would also sign
Phill Williams, Shad on fly Unusual
THE GOBIES Potentially quite a larg
Colouration varies between reddish
TOMPOT BLENNY Parablennius gattorug
BLACK FACED BLENNY Tripterygion del
A very dark blue-grey fish over its
If it's a conger, the eye will be l
Yes, conger can be a handful. Dange
to make a short flowing 10/0 hook t
Anyway, a good hour went by without
More recently, that trend has given
A fish well capable of weights well
eam covered in a mosaic of heavy sc
Trigger fish are not overly demandi
Distribution extends throughout all
exaggerated long filaments stretchi
sometimes lighter vertical bars on
GREATER WEEVER Trachinus draco Buck
SHORT SPINED SEA SCORPION Myoxoceph
The anal fin follows a similar patt
Colouration is sandy brown with a s
By far the biggest numbers I have e
RED BAND FISH Cepola rubescens Buck
FIFTEEN SPINED STICKLEBACK Spinchia
After spawning, the adults drop bac
So not a likely repeat prospect for
As for mirrors, commons, leathers a
That was it. We would film a demons
Granted, Richard Walker was from a
Anglers however tend to have mixed
It took us some searching to locate
RUDD Scardinius erythrophthalmus Bu
Match anglers love them too, as all
ait on their heads and immediately
BARBEL Barbus barbus Bucket List st
In addition to that, Mike also had
More towards the back-end however,
Looking at recent reports of catch
Let's start with the feel of the fi
distances on a regular basis to fis
I'd never been to East Anglia befor
Phill Williams, small Zander locati
Not exactly a fish to set the world
Dave and Paul went straight for the
For a whole range of reasons you co
Let's also not lose sight of the fa
You only have to look at the wider
villa I stayed in. Using worms boug
THREE SPINED STICKLEBACK Gasteroste
Included in the adipose finned spec
Other boats also came ashore with s
Theoretically, a very straight forw
particular tenkara fly fishing come
A scale count from the adipose fin
Living in a three dimensional world
the hook inside a small ball of the
Colouration is typically dark green
In Grayling circles, I have to say
around one hundred and forty or so
across the lake, and would therefor
There were certainly less fish abou
One day, Bob Fitchie and I decided
Inspired by Wally's catch, John and
PART TWO BEYOND HOME WATERS THE CAT
Cape Cod is a venue where bass in t
The obvious problem was that Dave,
FLORIDA - BISCAYNE CANAL When I fis
So why go to the trouble of fishing
It's just a pity that the hundred o
This is controlled by a single lock
idea was that as the light faded, t
You could drop a live mullet or blu
Having fished there on a number of
getting access to big fish too for
and reels supplied on-board, which
Paul Bennett hooked up a huge snapp
As one local party boat angler put
The entrance can get quite busy wit
Each morning at breakfast we would
407 What we had not expected was ei
cameras, this went into a rucksack
The fishing itself was straight for
ottom. It was all bait fishing with
Smaller asp on the other hand tend
also run this river in their millio
Surprisingly, for the size of these
Eventually it appeared within reach
On one occasion, as soon as I touch
shark, which, along with a fish I h
fixed spool reels. Fortunately we h
As it would turn out, this was the
A stretch of land separated from th
The food was very nice. Fresh lobst
What you needed to do was cast as f
He in turn blamed the local lads on
against the concrete above us and h
The one remaining option was to go
More important still, so too were t
Our problem was catching the necess
Unfortunately, everything seemed to
was emptied, carried to us by scant
me there from Calangute where I was
In less than half an hour it was mi
said, as I'm not one for aimlessly
This happened a couple more times b
inside edge of the reef. As the sto
limited time, we were satisfied, an
Phill Williams, Puerto Vallarta Jac
Some days he would even walk into t
Were it not for the many bite-offs,
Gurnards very similar to our tub gu
Cod though were always the number o
up into the jungle. So late in fact
As was often the case, the chat wen
things turned out, it was nothing o
SPAIN I've only ever been to mainla
These eventually turned out to be f
In terms of approach, we used a ver
PART THREE INDIVIDUAL TARGETS THE C
Dove-tailing very nicely into this
I suggested in my representations,
Fortunately, most of the recorded s
not mentioned in this section of th
Opportunities to realistically and
Hamish Currie is the only home wate
through holes in bushes, around sub
to adjust the working depth, depend
One of the recorded audio interview
Wels Catfish - now excluded from th
Okay, so you can access much of it
With this mind we motored off down
As a sort of prediction as well as
Phill Williams & Johan Burger with