Audio Angling

Recorded in 2010. As the sole charter boat left operating out of the port of Fleetwood, Blue Mink skipper Andy Bradbury talks about his transition from small boat angler to charter skipper, and the prospects for visiting anglers over the year.

Recorded in 2010. As projects director of the conservation lobby group Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN), Ian Burrett talks about the groups history, achievements and future aims.

Recorded in 2010. Ferox 85 is a single species research and study group set up in 1985 to look into all matters scientific and angling with regard to wild Ferox Brown Trout. Much has been learned about this enigmatic fish by the group over that time, not too mention the fact that its members have also taken the British rod caught record to new heights. Now in its silver jubilee year, co-founder Ron Greer talks about a wide range of subjects relating to the group and Ferox fishing in the UK.

Recorded in 2010. Between the 1930's and 1950's, Scarborough was the hub of big game fishing in the UK. Here Bill Pashby recalls his time spent taking out wealthy customers fishing for giant Blue Fin Tuna or Tunny.

Recorded in 2010. Monster fish and Great White Shark enthusiast Pete Thorman talks about what it was like to catch huge Sharks for a tag and release scientific research program off the coast of South Africa.

Recorded in 2010. For some, stalking big Trout in the gin clear waters of some of Hampshire's still waters became not only a pilgrimage, but an art form. Here Graeme Pullen looks at the history as well as the techniques behind the phenomenon.

Recorded in 2010. Big fish expert Graeme Pullen talks about all aspects of fishing for big Sharks both worldwide and in UK waters.

Recorded in 2010. Pwllheli has long been a very popular summer charter angling venue, but also has a lesser known full year round potential where it offers a huge diversity, depending on the size of the tides, which includes reef, wreck, bank and open ground fishing. Charter skipper of Haf Aled Jason Owen explains.

Recorded in 2011. Dever Springs trout fishery in Hampshire has a well earned reputation for cultivating and producing big and even record sized Brown and Rainbow Trout. Its gin clear chalk stream fed lakes also make it one of the countries premier stalking waters. Stuart Barrett from the fishery discusses a range of issues regarding big fish rearing, stocking, and catching.

Recorded in 2010. Graeme Pullen has devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of huge fish, and in particular Marlin. Here he talks openly about Billfish species on a worldwide as well as a European basis, explaining some of the developments in both techniques and pin pointing new hot spots that he has been responsible for.

Recorded in 2010. The top side of Morecambe Bay up the Duddon Estuary was once alive with summer Cod, Plaice, Tope and Bass. Vast catches could be made there on a regular basis. Then it started to slip into decline. Here we look at the area in it's 1970's and 80's hey day.

Recorded in 2010. Tony Parry, skipper of Jensen II based at Rhyl in the summer and Liverpool over the winter talks about the history and current status of both fisheries, plus his thoughts on renewable energy in the form of offshore wind farms and their direct and indirect effects on fishing and fish distribution.

Recorded in 2010. As a dinghy angler who was present and participated in the famous Flyde Coast jumbo Cod fishing era between the mid 1970's and mid 1980's, Phill Williams takes a realistic as well as a nostalgic look at this probably never to be repeated event. Many huge Cod were taken very close in to Lancashire's Cleveleys shoreline. But it wasn't a case of success guaranteed, as very often there would days with little or no reward for your efforts, at times in weather and sea conditions at the limit of what the small un-sophisticated boats back then could handle

Recorded in 2009. Veteran angler Frank Bee talks about his long commercial and charter fishing career, and how that influenced the charter angling scene both at Fleetwood and in Morecambe Bay. Then, in his early 70's, he retired from the charter fishing and bought himself a small boat which amongst many good catches was responsible for the North West Cod record of 42 pounds.

Recorded in 2010. Gethyn Owen is an ex-Welsh International boat angler turned successful charter skipper operating out of Holyhead. A measure of that success is anglers fishing aboard his boat My Way having successfully claimed the Welsh records for Tope, Spurdog and Smoothhound, which in each case was returned to the sea alive.

Recorded in 2009. Mick Riley, sole survivor of a dinghy angling tragedy off Lancashire's Fylde Coast talks about the events leading up that day, the feeling of isolation and desperation of the situation, and of his ultimate rescue. Given a hard time later in the press, un-justifiably as it would turn out, here he put the record straight and tries to persuade other small boat anglers to be more safety conscious.

Recorded in 2009. Humberside sea angler Ian Burrett loved the Luce Bay area so much that he moved home there to set up the highly successful Onyermarks charter business. Ian is also a great advocate of conservation and a founder member of SSACN.