As spring brings another exciting boating season, now is the time for boat owner’s seasonal checks. After storage, commissioning checks are an essential safety feature, and ensure your boat operates reliably for the season ahead. Below are key checks to complete, no matter where you are storing your boat, be it a marina, on a…
Antifouling Paint: What Every Boat Owner Needs to Know
As a boat owner, it doesn’t matter whether you are new or experienced, you will become very familiar with how weeds, barnacles, algae, and other organisms coat the hull of your boat. No one tells new boat owners about the damage that this does to a boat’s performance, fuel efficiency, and lifespan. The good news…
How Fishing Bite Alarms Add to Your Success Rate
Most anglers know how painful it is to come back to a rod with a slack line, with a missed fish. Whether it is your first, or last, it is a feeling that is understood, and with that, manufacturers have developed fishing bite alarms to eliminate the problem of missed opportunities. For decades, fishing alarms…
Is It Worth Spending the Money on More Expensive Bite Alarms
When you have ever been window shopping fishing equipment on the internet or in fishing tackle stores, you will have realised how crazy the prices can be, particularly on the bite alarms. And you can pick up a basic one at less than PS20 or you can easily spend several hundred on a high-end set…
Line Clips: The Unsung Heroes of British Angling
Anyone who’s spent serious time by the water will tell you that the final tally of fish lies hidden in the unshowy corners of one’s tackle. While magazines celebrate high-carbon rods and cerium-bore reels, it’s those lowly line clips that quietly ensures bait lands on the same plate, time after time, often bending the scales…