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Shark Attack in Scotland!
Shaun Cumming looks at fishing for sharks in Scotland; the species available, tactics and the areas they can be found...
Of Ghosts and Greats
The inspiration for Mike Thrussell to start his angling journey came from many sources, but angling writers have always been a key motivator for him to pick up a rod. In this brand new article to WSF, Mike takes a look at some of the angling greats that have inspired him over the years....
Arctic Adventure
Get a group of anglers talking about Norway and the prime topic of conversation will be the big cod that lurk these deep, cold waters. There are huge cod here and the quality of the cod fishing is exceptional, but these waters hold much more than just cod and the opportunities to the thinking angler are immense....
Blue Sharks & Specimen Pollack
Paul Casey, head of Shakespeare UK and Europe, casually mentioned one day that he’d never caught a blue shark and it was a long standing ambition he was keen to achieve. That sounded like a challenge, so Mike Thrussell and Paul got their heads together and set about organising a trip....
Ballycotton Bounty
World Sea Fishing visits the port of Ballycotton on the east side of County Cork in Ireland, famous in the early 1900’s when members of the Dreadnought Sea Angling Club broke new ground by catching species unprecedented at that time....
Big Coalies on the Fly!
One of the great challenges and adrenaline rushes for any angler is to catch a big fish on fly gear. Mike Thrussell heads up to Northern Norway to see if he can target a big coalie on the fly in his latest WSF Blog and Adventure....
Dingle Dangle Irish Adventure
Faced with tough bassing conditions whilst fishing around the Dingle peninsular the WSF team get taken to a secluded beach by Irish Angling Ace, Norman Dunlop. What could have been a disaster turned out to be one of the best angling sessions of the entire trip, with decent sized rays, turbot and flounder....
Iceland Shore Fishing Sensation
With a 200 mile commercial fishing exclusion zone for all foreign vessels, plus sensible conservation measures applying to their own commercial fleet, Iceland has natural fish stocks that are the envy of the rest of the World....
Orkney: Harvey Wallbanger
With the concerns over foreign travel uppermost in many minds nowadays, the spin off is that over the past couple of years more and more of us are taking our hols within the UK. One area doing particularly well is the Orkney Islands way up in the far north....
Capital Cod
Okay, so Cardiff is the official capital of Wales, but risking the lynch party I reckon Swansea is Wales’s cod capital. The codding off Cardiff can be excellent, but I’ve been checking past catch returns for the past couple of decades, and for sheer numbers of big fish and the consistency of its fishing Swansea just has the edge....
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