21
Jul
Recently, I visited the fantastic Manor Fisheries in Kent with Duncan Charman in search of catfish. You can watch the film below to find out how we got on.
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Category: Predator Fishing
More of your questions answered by predator expert Luc Coppens.
https://youtu.be/fOfYkU7cwgI...
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Recently I caught up with my old friend, lure fishing legend and Westin ambassador Luc Coppens and asked him some questions posed by my FaceBook friends. I'm sure this will be of interest to all predator anglers as it offers a rare insight into the thinking of one of Europe's most successful competition predator anglers.
https://youtu.be/otLHrn_urEg...
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19
Jan
If you have bought yourself an echo sounder with built-in GPS then there is a seriously useful bolt-on that you can add to it that won't cost you a penny, but which can give you some fascinating insights into why certain areas and spots are better than others.
I'm talking about adding topographical maps showing the underwater contours of your favourite fisheries to your sounder that can be accessed whilst you are out on the water. Such maps don't exist for every waterbody yet, especially in the UK, but there are enough to get started and it is easy to record your own.
Until recently you normally had to pay for software to create maps. My buddy and I...
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21
Nov
In part one I covered the key features to look for in an echo sounder designed for predator fishing and how much you should be looking to pay. This time I am going to move on to looking at how I set up my sounder to give a clear image of what is going on below the surface.
PORTABILITY
With a few exceptions, most echo sounders are designed to be fixed permanently to a single boat. This is great if like our American and European cousins you fish from your own boat all the time, but as most of us in the UK use hire boats for much of our fishing this isn’t of great use to us. Fortunately,...
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28
Mar
Are missed runs and lost fish all down to a lack of suction?
Fishing is all about percentages. If you can swing the odds in your favour by loading the dice then your chances of catching are obviously greatly improved. This could sometimes be as simple as fishing the right place at the right time, but that is only part of the story and, more often than not, a lot of the small tweaks that can be made to every aspect of our fishing are made not through certain knowledge that they will make a difference, but because gradually acquired experience leads us down a particular line of thought.
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And so another rather damp and unproductive February slips into history and the overwhelming feeling that I take from the month is one of what might have been. After all, there are not many times when you are fishing next to a bloke who catches a forty pound pike are there? Well, believe it or not, it has actually happened to us a few times, so if you want to catch a monster pike then perhaps the best tip I can give you is to anchor up next to us!
To see such fish in the flesh though is just so awe inspiring, whilst a thirty pound pike is big a forty is just another level altogether and...
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