Happy Christmas 2016
Happy Christmas 2016

Is it really only two days until Christmas? Happy Christmas to you all and my thanks as always for reading this blog - from time to time I do sit down and think about whether I should continue this blog for another year, but I love doing it, I love that people read it, I love getting feedback via comments, emails and various messages, and yes, I absolutely love it when I meet anglers out and about who tell me that they read this blog and that in some way it has helped them with their fishing. Thank you!

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Might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I’m looking out for smaller lures that can work like needlefish or senkos for specific situations
Might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I’m looking out for smaller lures that can work like needlefish or senkos for specific situations

As we near the end of the year and I think about my fishing this year and the fishing I have been around, one thing that really stands out for me is the whole night lure fishing thing, and more specifically, chucking those senkos out, winding them straight in and catching bass and absolutely loving fishing like this. But there’s an aspect to it that has been niggling me for a while and I wonder if there’s a way round it………….

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Bass fishing, Fishing tackle, Lure fishing, Video and filmsHenry Gilbey Comments
APIA Foojin’R Grand Swell 96MH 9’6’’ 7-42g lure rod review - £300+
APIA Foojin’R Grand Swell 96MH 9’6’’ 7-42g lure rod review - £300+

Well one’s thing for sure about this APIA Foojin’R Grand Swell 96MH 7-42g lure rod - you aren’t going to lack for power in dealing with any bass that we are ever likely to connect with in European waters. I took this rod over to the US to fish for striped bass when we weren’t fishing the much heavier lures in the Cape Cod canal, and whilst 9’6’’ could well be considered too long for boat fishing, that’s exactly what I did with it. I landed stripers on surface lures off the boat that were nudging 30lbs, and believe me when I say that I gave them as much grief as I possibly could with this rod, a 5000 size Shimano spinning reel, and 26lb Sufix 832 braid I think it was. Not even remotely a problem, so me thinks it’s just about powerful enough for our own bass………..

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Bass fishing, Fishing tackle, Lure fishing, Reviews, Saltwater fishingHenry GilbeyComment
I go fishing because I need to, but how on earth do you explain that all-consuming need to non-anglers?
I go fishing because I need to, but how on earth do you explain that all-consuming need to non-anglers?

We were with my folks for the weekend the other day, and whilst they are the most fantastic parents who have always supported me and my two brothers in what we do with our lives, they do not fish and I credit my awesome grandmother with introducing me to fishing when I was seven years old. My folks gamely used to watch those TV programmes I presented and they even used to subscribe to Sea Angler magazine until they asked me if I minded if they didn’t anymore because it wasn’t really their thing! You either fish or you don’t, and fishing in some form or another has kinda ruled my life since I was a nipper…………

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Bass fishing, Lure fishing, Saltwater fishing, Fishing magazinesHenry Gilbey Comments