What Do You Spend?

Issue 550

Sea Angler

Catching fish doesn’t have to be a challenge to your wallet

PUTTING CASTING MATTERS ON HOLD, I’ll focus instead on the price of beach fishing. I have two reasons for doing so. First, the many questions concerning rods and reels for casting a long way. Second, and far more important, the wide and growing perception that beach fishing done properly has become a big-money game.

I have had writing this article in mind for a long time, but what finally prompted me to wade into such contentious waters was a phone call from a reader fairly new to fishing, who had been advised that to do the job properly, he should spend some £500 on a rod and reel. Plus, ideally, that he should have a matched pair of each. What did I think?

هذه القصة من طبعة Issue 550 من Sea Angler.

اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هل أنت مشترك بالفعل؟ تسجيل الدخول

'We Could Feel The Teeth Scraping The Underside Of Our Kayaks'

Evasive action was called for when two kayak anglers were dragged on a collision course after each hooking 100lb blue sharks, while fishing 30 miles out into the fish-rich Celtic Deeps.