New Skegness RNLI lifeboat goes into service A new RNLI inshore lifeboat goes into service at Skegness tomorrow (Friday 3 September), thanks to the generous donations from visitors to the annual CAMRA Peterborough Beer Festival. The £31,000 D class lifeboat will be called Peterborough Beer Festival IV. She will operate alongside the Skegness all-weather lifeboat, [...]
Fishing Charter Boat Valhalla The story i am about to tell must be every skippers and anglers nightmare (Sunday the 11th August 1985), it started off as a good days angling aboard the charter boat the Valhalla out of Bridlington with a group of anglers from Negas SAC Hull, the boat was skippered by Ian Taylor known [...]
The European Open Beach Championship is now established as the biggest three-day fishing festival in Europe, attracting stars of shore angling from all over the UK and Eurpoe. Now in it’s 18th year, the Bridlington based bash has long been number one with the British sea anglers, with the 2011 event having an even more exciting [...]
British Open Beach Championship is back! Just a quick note folks… the return of the British Open Beach Championships, Rhyl, North Wales September 25th-26th 2010 2 day match, £4k first prize and £15k prize fund. Stop at the competition HQ on the luxury caravan park with free entertainment, angling workshops and exhibition, indoor swimming pool, [...]
the forcast was excellent for wed morning so we arrived at the compound at 3.15am light allready ,should have got there earlier?,we launched at around 3.45 am plenty of petrol onboard and most importantley plenty of pack up lol ,after nne winds the day before we expected a bit of swell as i say a [...]
Hello One of my guests had the catch of a life time yesterday with this lovely 85 pound halibut!! I think the most exciting thing about the catch for me is that it was taken from 40m deep and 60m from land!!! Shore fishing season has started!!! The other thing is that he was fighting [...]
Ian’s deadline for submission of his university project light is looming and so he asked if I would spend a few hours fishing with him and test his light out and then give him some feedback on what I thought. So here goes: 1. CONSTRUCTION The main body of the light that houses [...]
FOXY GETS TECHNICAL UPTIDING ORIGINS What we now term Uptiding was initially called “Boat casting” and was used in the Thames estuary by people such as Bob Cox and John Rawle while bait fishing at anchor. The theory was that the tide pushing against the anchor rope created a vibration that put fish downtide on the alert. [...]
I posted this as a result of a request on the Holderness site but thought maybe some of the lads on here might like to read. I ve been asked to do a few jobs recently and what with work and fishing I ve had to turn the full re-builds down limiting myself to the [...]
I am after any ideas people have on this, I would greatly apreciate any ideas and possible feature requests. Ill also be looking for one or two people to possibly trial the headlamp for me and give honest critical feedback. The reason for this is that I am currently studying at Sheffield Hallam Uni towards [...]