Simply angling and angling issues!

Thinking Of Getting Afloat

One of the greatest days of your life is the day you take to the water on your own craft. Getting there is not to be taken lightly...

* Re-Powering The Operation!

It’s one of the biggest decisions that a skipper takes - Do you change your boat; do you change your motor; or maybe both?

Winter Running

Heading to sea at wintertime can be a rewarding experience and it remains the only way the boat angler can get some fishing, if they don’t take to...

* Boat Bass – Lure Addiction At Work!

Each year as the water temperature rises so does the pressure to catch a bass! In ireland a shore caught bass can be an easier target than one from...

*Spain Salt & Fresh Pt2

In the second installment, Stan Ryan and crew move from the salt to the fresh.... The mighty Edbro!

*Spain – Salt & Fresh!

Atun España -CHASING BLUEFIN TUNA – Warm water fishing is only a hop skip and jump to Spain. STAN RYAN gives his usual forthright assessment.

*So What’s Happening With Bass?

The last couple of years bass fishing has been strange! Hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel....

*Big Skate Small Boat #2

Skate fishing on Skua has been an evolution. It has taken a few years of chancing our arm and experimenting in different locations with differing...

*Garmin Relief Shading – Worth the Hype?

Relief Shading is the buzz around boat angling.... does it live up to the hype?

* FISH WIPEOUT? – WHO CARES?

The systematic plundering of our bays is continuing apace.... If it was happening on land there would be uproar...

* Owner Kizuna Braid – Long Term Review.

This is the best braid I have used.... until the next best comes along!!

*Angling for Info!

Sea Anglers are being asked to give information about catches. What’s it all about?....

* Big Skate, Small Boat

The quest for a new species is always a great driver for the small boat skipper.... Get to grips with a Skate!

* That First Run!

Whether it is during the winter or after a winter layup that first run out is always a great day out… if it goes to plan!

* NOVICE IN NORWAY –

Stan Ryan's latest trip is to Norway and the famous Sandland Brygge camp....

* New Boat Season, New Boat Rod!

New season New Rod? A change in boat rod gets Jim searching…. Firstly, my change in boat rods was driven more for a desire to change rather than...

* The Warrior 175 – Long Term Boat Review

Jim Clohessy has been a Warrior owner for a few years now… here’s the deal:

* Kingdom Come! Fishing in Kerry – Valentia Island – Pt2

Another installment of a summer trip to Valentia in Kerry. Towing your boat to other locations is a rewarding effort.

* Kingdom Come! Fishing in Kerry – Valentia Island – Pt1

The waters off the south west coast of Ireland can be wild and unforgiving, but when the weather is good there is no finer place to be. Last summer...