Fishing In Wales Co / How-To Guides
I head out for overnight sessions because that sweet window between dusk and dawn often produces the best action on exposed coves — but twelve hours on the bank in open conditions means you need to...
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I’ve spent more mornings than I can count standing on rocky points and pebbled coves, watching the water and the birds and waiting for a clue. Learning to identify feeding lanes from shore is one...
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Winter cod in shallow Welsh bays have become some of my favourite early-morning prizes — slow, methodical fish that turn a quiet tide into a proper chase. One of the techniques that consistently...
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I can tell you a lot about a mark before I even put a lure in the water — sometimes just by the colour of the weed and the foam sitting on the tide. Pollack aren’t random predators; they follow...
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I get asked a lot what I tie up when the swell is building off a rocky Welsh shore. For me, those days are equal parts opportunity and caution: bass move, feed and use the extra water to creep into...
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Late summer in Wales is a magical time for bass in estuary mouths — warm water pushes bait in, tides concentrate fish, and the right soft plastics on a light rod can turn a slow session into a...
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Rays are some of the most rewarding targets from the shore — deceptively powerful, graceful and excellent sport on light tackle. Over the years along Wales’ varied coastline I’ve learned a few...
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Heading out for a night surf session along the Welsh coast is one of my favourite ways to blank out the day and chase a quiet bite. But the tide at night is a different beast — shadows hide...
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I love the simplicity of a standard running ledger — a weight sliding on the mainline with a short hooklink trailing behind. It’s one of the first rigs I learned on the Brittany rocks and it...
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I fish a lot of tidal ledges for cod around the Welsh coast, and fresh crab is one of my go-to baits when I want to put a reliable, natural scent in front of bigger, wary fish. Over the years I've...
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