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Float fishing for Pollock

When fishing for Pollock I always fish lures, mainly soft plastics but troll crankbaits as well. But for a change I decided to spend an evening float fishing Ragworm in the hope of the finding a few Pollock and maybe if I’m lucky a Wrasse. This is a first for me...

A day on the bait

The bulk of my fishing is with lures so it makes a pleasant change to sit back, relax and fish with bait. Today’s tactic was to fish large(ish) fish baits for Thornback Rays and fish small fish and squid baits for flatfish and whatever else takes a fancy. 20min...

A weekend fishing the Lake District

After working 4 weeks with only the one day off I was looking forward to the prospect of a full weekend’s fishing! We were heading to the UK’s Lake District (Cumbria) located in the far north west of England, the target to hopefully find some of the Pike...

North East Open Kayak Competition Report

It’s 7am and I’m on the road making the short 1hr drive north to fish the annual North East Open Kayak Angling Competition based at Blyth on England’s north east coast. This is the second year of the competition and is popular with the kayak anglers...

UK saltwater kayak fishing- Pollock season

My weekend of kayak fishing started with me driving down for the annual Runswick Bay Summer Kayak Fishing Festival, held on the North Yorkshire coast. 84 kayak anglers from around the country had turned up to compete for the top spot. The match was under way at 10am,...

Predator Grand Slam in Esthwaite

Before I headed to Sweden for 10 days of kayak fishing I held my annual predator grand slam event at Esthwaite in the UK. I took on this event in 2013, I run it as a 2 day match where competitors have to catch the 3 predators: Pike, Perch and Trout. Competitors have...

Pike Fishing – Amsele, Lapland Sweden

The second leg of our Lapland journey brings us to Amsele, some 140km south east of Blattnicksele on the road to Umea. Close by are a chain of lakes connected by a small river system, here we found that the shallow ground and reeds held a lot of Pike. The common...

Pike Fishing – Lapland Sweden

Back in the depths of winter members from the Jackson Kayak UK fishing team were invited to join other european team members to 10 days kayak fishing in Lapland Sweden, it took me all of about 2 seconds to say ‘Yes’. Straight away I was checking out Google...

VIDEO- Pike on the Rubber Duck

A few weeks before heading off to Sweden I was sat in the bath thinking of what lures I need to take with me, then I thought what silly lures could I catch on. My wife has a little collection of rubber ducks sat by the bath, mmmm, could I rig a rubber duck with treble...

UK Team land in Sweden

Been a long wait but the UK Jackson fishing team have arrived in Sweden, after a 2.5hr flight and a 10hr drive we are now at our camp for the holiday. It was’nt long before we were on the water, today’s target Perch and Pike from the shallow lake margins....

Esox Lucius (the mini Pike hunt!)

Being a self employed landscape gardener is a dream job for me, I love it, however the only problem is I’m at my busiest in the wamrer months when the fishing is best! Living in England though means rain is never far away so sometimes I’m rained off work,...

Fishing with Heroes On The Water UK

Heroes On The Water is a well known charity in the US helping injured servicemen by taking them kayak fishing, the injured servicemen find it to be an excellent kind of therapy. After seeing this first hand whilst visiting the US, ex-servicemen Paul Fennel of the UK...