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THE ACTUAL BUCKET LIST 100 species
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Colin Penny: skipper of the Weymout
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page The Actual B
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Long Rough Dab 153 Turbot 154 Brill
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Introduction to the Gobies 251 Blac
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Bitterling 322 Gudgeon 323 Bleak 32
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Spain 479 Thailand 479 Tunisia 484
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As always, with any sort of ambitio
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Working in conjunction with these i
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viviparous reproduction, and the me
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possible, use a landing net, and th
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Only when a world record claim was
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pectorals, with the second dorsal d
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The harbour itself completely dries
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Nor can weights be estimated by usi
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shark and porbeagle exploits, all o
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Mincing also makes demands on the m
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Plymouth and some of the surroundin
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That however isn't the entire story
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Mark Ward, 71 pound Norfolk Tope I
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off around Shell Wharf to the south
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Network (SSACN), and it was on thes
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COMMON SMOOTHHOUND Mustelus mustelu
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But you would be wrong. Because exp
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There are lots of good smoothhound
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But it was a long hard fought campa
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The object of the exercise was to c
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LESSER SPOTTED DOGFISH Scyliorhinus
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One of the few occasions when I can
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When they were more numerous than t
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With its recent history, can there
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Getting back to the history of thos
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Ross Johnson, skate from the shore
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From the shore, obviously, it won't
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I remember one particular fish that
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have a lot to do with numbers, dist
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That said, I have on occasion been
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I once took a bucket full of live m
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With fast tides, a profusion of ban
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igger than ten pounds, then it's a
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Spotted Rays also lack rough prickl
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A strikingly beautiful fish which e
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An occasional specimen might even t
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Most of the time we spent fishing i
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Another of those at best rarely rep
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A much smaller fish of more souther
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As with all species, and for a rang
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Our first trips didn't exactly ligh
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etween Christmas and the last big t
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The Fylde would fish best after a b
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Muppets too began to appear in a ra
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own boat over there to fish the rou
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Colouration and lateral line are tw
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Deep diving plugs too, providing th
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pollack have a protruding lower jaw
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The upper flanks and back have been
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From my own experience, certainly f
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photograph of a whiting he'd caught
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s monofilament to help eliminate se
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fishermen, presented as a flapper,
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mouth is noticeably dark. There can
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LING Molva molva Bucket List status
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Mac McAllister, Whitby Ling Now, th
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GREATER FORKBEARD Phycis blennoides
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In common with all the rocklings, t
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SHORE ROCKLING Gaidropsarus mediter
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I used to tag along to collect dise
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As with the more familiar flounder
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fish, little realising that they we
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Though it was still very early in t
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A fish with a distribution potentia
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aits, and a tiny sliver of squid or
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e enough to push them right out wit
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Hooks obviously can be bigger where
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He also uses this description for t
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I spent some time chatting to Paul
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fin extending right around to the h
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Whatever the reason, it did actuall
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From the shore it's slightly differ
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161 And if you are not holding your
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MEGRIM Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis B
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Colouration is brown with some dark
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Dan Burrows, Fleetwood Because of m
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Where there are still a few bass le
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ecruitment in the face of imminent
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As ever, there was always the dange
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The EU is relying on existing enfor
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The total reduction in fishing mort
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south, as it is a common enough fis
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A fish with a large mouth and power
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weaning these otherwise algae graze
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spots, and put in the time both swi
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Ollie Stenning, 8.7.4 Thin Lip reco
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Despite living nearby in Hampshire,
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Simply fold the pectoral fin forwar
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Otherwise, a family of fishes of vi
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epeated off the Yorkshire coast. Ye
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were forced to remove their fightin
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So far as I can ascertain, this is
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different scales starting at the gi
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everywhere as was once the case. Wi
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Quite an unusual visitor to our pat
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Four of us we were drift fishing a
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Physically, the almaco is a slightl
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Already we are seeing that, not onl
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the end of the trip, still with no
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I've had it happen to me on more th
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What clinched that line of thinking
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much stronger sharper hooks, and bu
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Mike Thrussell, Gilthead Bream I ha
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BOGUE Boops boops Bucket List statu
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AXILLARY BREAM Pagellus acarne Buck
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Caught out, instead of reversing th
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The biggest of the four was put at
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So there I am winding in, certain I
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CUCKOO WRASSE Labrus mixtus Bucket
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For deliberately targeting them, th
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The scientific wisdom suggests it t
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As is the trend with most of the gu
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In this particular case however, re
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Although I've never caught one myse
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So you can expect to see them in mo
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The knock on effect would also sign
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Phill Williams, Shad on fly Unusual
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THE GOBIES Potentially quite a larg
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Colouration varies between reddish
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TOMPOT BLENNY Parablennius gattorug
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BLACK FACED BLENNY Tripterygion del
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A very dark blue-grey fish over its
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If it's a conger, the eye will be l
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Yes, conger can be a handful. Dange
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to make a short flowing 10/0 hook t
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Anyway, a good hour went by without
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More recently, that trend has given
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A fish well capable of weights well
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eam covered in a mosaic of heavy sc
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Trigger fish are not overly demandi
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Distribution extends throughout all
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exaggerated long filaments stretchi
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sometimes lighter vertical bars on
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GREATER WEEVER Trachinus draco Buck
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SHORT SPINED SEA SCORPION Myoxoceph
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The anal fin follows a similar patt
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Colouration is sandy brown with a s
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By far the biggest numbers I have e
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RED BAND FISH Cepola rubescens Buck
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FIFTEEN SPINED STICKLEBACK Spinchia
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After spawning, the adults drop bac
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So not a likely repeat prospect for
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As for mirrors, commons, leathers a
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That was it. We would film a demons
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Granted, Richard Walker was from a
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Anglers however tend to have mixed
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It took us some searching to locate
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RUDD Scardinius erythrophthalmus Bu
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Match anglers love them too, as all
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ait on their heads and immediately
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BARBEL Barbus barbus Bucket List st
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In addition to that, Mike also had
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More towards the back-end however,
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Looking at recent reports of catch
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Let's start with the feel of the fi
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distances on a regular basis to fis
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I'd never been to East Anglia befor
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Phill Williams, small Zander locati
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Not exactly a fish to set the world
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Dave and Paul went straight for the
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For a whole range of reasons you co
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Let's also not lose sight of the fa
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You only have to look at the wider
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villa I stayed in. Using worms boug
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THREE SPINED STICKLEBACK Gasteroste
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Included in the adipose finned spec
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Other boats also came ashore with s
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Theoretically, a very straight forw
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particular tenkara fly fishing come
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A scale count from the adipose fin
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Living in a three dimensional world
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the hook inside a small ball of the
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Colouration is typically dark green
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In Grayling circles, I have to say
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around one hundred and forty or so
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across the lake, and would therefor
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There were certainly less fish abou
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One day, Bob Fitchie and I decided
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Inspired by Wally's catch, John and
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PART TWO BEYOND HOME WATERS THE CAT
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Cape Cod is a venue where bass in t
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The obvious problem was that Dave,
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FLORIDA - BISCAYNE CANAL When I fis
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So why go to the trouble of fishing
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It's just a pity that the hundred o
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This is controlled by a single lock
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idea was that as the light faded, t
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You could drop a live mullet or blu
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Having fished there on a number of
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getting access to big fish too for
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and reels supplied on-board, which
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Paul Bennett hooked up a huge snapp
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As one local party boat angler put
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The entrance can get quite busy wit
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Each morning at breakfast we would
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407 What we had not expected was ei
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cameras, this went into a rucksack
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The fishing itself was straight for
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ottom. It was all bait fishing with
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Smaller asp on the other hand tend
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also run this river in their millio
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Surprisingly, for the size of these
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Eventually it appeared within reach
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On one occasion, as soon as I touch
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shark, which, along with a fish I h
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fixed spool reels. Fortunately we h
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As it would turn out, this was the
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A stretch of land separated from th
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The food was very nice. Fresh lobst
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What you needed to do was cast as f
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He in turn blamed the local lads on
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against the concrete above us and h
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The one remaining option was to go
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More important still, so too were t
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Our problem was catching the necess
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Unfortunately, everything seemed to
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was emptied, carried to us by scant
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me there from Calangute where I was
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In less than half an hour it was mi
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said, as I'm not one for aimlessly
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This happened a couple more times b
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inside edge of the reef. As the sto
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limited time, we were satisfied, an
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Phill Williams, Puerto Vallarta Jac
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Some days he would even walk into t
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Were it not for the many bite-offs,
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Gurnards very similar to our tub gu
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Cod though were always the number o
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up into the jungle. So late in fact
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As was often the case, the chat wen
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things turned out, it was nothing o
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SPAIN I've only ever been to mainla
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These eventually turned out to be f
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In terms of approach, we used a ver
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PART THREE INDIVIDUAL TARGETS THE C
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Dove-tailing very nicely into this
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I suggested in my representations,
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Fortunately, most of the recorded s
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not mentioned in this section of th
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Opportunities to realistically and
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Hamish Currie is the only home wate
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through holes in bushes, around sub
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to adjust the working depth, depend
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One of the recorded audio interview
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Wels Catfish - now excluded from th
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Okay, so you can access much of it
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With this mind we motored off down
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As a sort of prediction as well as
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Phill Williams & Johan Burger with
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Let's look at the pro's and con's o
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It may surprise some people here wh
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kayaks tied up to some of the buoys
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Because of the geography involved,
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I even tried bottom fishing with sm
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PART FOUR OTHER STUFF PERIFERAL & H
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- Page 545 and 546: RESIDS 0.18 0.16 0.14 0.12 0.10 2 3
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- Page 549 and 550: As a point of balance, I should als
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- Page 553 and 554: Podcast Interview 8: Graeme Pullen,
- Page 555 and 556: Podcast Interview 33: Zyg Gregorek,
- Page 557 and 558: Podcast Interview 55: Dave Beecham,
- Page 559 and 560: Podcast Interview 74: Justin Anwyl
- Page 561 and 562: Podcast Interview 95: Sven Hille, B
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- Page 565 and 566: Podcast Interview 134: Mike Heylin,
- Page 567 and 568: Podcast Interview 155: Ally Gowans,
- Page 569 and 570: Podcast Interview 176: Terry Mosele
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- Page 573 and 574: Smoothhound at surface: Photo Phill
- Page 575 and 576: Dave Devine Haddock trio: Photo Phi
- Page 577: Gibraltar harbour: Photo Phill Will
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- Page 583 and 584: Char in breeding livery: Photo Phil
- Page 585 and 586: Danny Cove 200 pound Stingray: Phot
- Page 587 and 588: My angling hero & mentor, Davy Agne
- Page 589: The Lesser Spotted curse: Photo Phi
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