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      • The rise of the micro metals
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      • Franks Fishing Festival
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      • Pembrokeshire bass lure tournament 2021
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      • A time for change
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      • Understanding Black Bream
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      • The search for a yellowfin tuna
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      • For the Rhyl of it
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      • Incredible India
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      • That time in Costa Rica
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      • Just a bigger pond
      • Where have all the flounder gone?
      • Death of the independent review
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      • lifes little luxuries
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      • North East Rock Rods
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  • April 2022
    • Behind the scenes of winter ghosts
    • Chesil plaice fishing
    • back for a future
    • Bristol Channel Huss – Big Brutes
    • Plaice afloat
    • A time to contemplate in changing times
    • Tralee Stingray Pilgrimage
    • Tag A Ray 2022
    • Donegal Porbeagles
    • An LRF tour of Plymouth
    • Quest for a monster snook
    • Fuerteventura: An introductory guide
    • A delve into the Destination Angler: Dave Lewis
  • Subscribe to Print edition
  • Submit a catch
  • Tackle Reviews
  • Past Issues
    • March 2022
      • Essex Flounder
      • Getting Hooked Up with Julian Shambrook
      • March Mullet Madness
      • Finding That Fix
      • Hartlepool LRF
      • A guide to bass fishing in Portugal
      • Spurdog frenzy
      • Species hunting afloat
      • Oh Happy Days!
      • Shore fishing in Panama
      • A splash of milk
      • Costa Rican Roosters
      • Morays in the Med
      • Derrymore rays
      • Leinster League Leg 3
    • February 2022 Issue
      • Getting Hooked Up: With Steve Ace
      • No boat required
      • From trout to bass and the Channel mud
      • Guide review: Paul ‘Bassman’ Gordon
      • The walls have eyes
      • Flamingo legs from the other side
      • The Minehead £1000 cod challenge
      • Mull of Galloway: 3 Species Event
      • From passion to profession
      • Gabon: Chaos in the darkness
      • No boundaries Oman: Land of the giants
      • Ascension Diaries pt.3 – Variety is the spice of life!
      • A winter ray hunt
      • Leinster League leg 2 2022
    • JANUARY 2022
      • New Year New Ways
      • Getting hooked up with Tom Bagnall
      • 50 years breathing in the salty air
      • Sharing knowledge
      • How to catch more fish on lures in winter
      • Killybeg charity open
      • Winter tope
      • Leinster League
      • West Papua part 3
      • If you’ll permit me
      • Fish Pedasi 21
      • Winter of content
      • Wrecking My Way
      • What lurks beneath?
    • December 2021
      • An Autumn Flounder Excursion
      • cold cliffs and cod galore
      • getting hooked up with ross johnson
      • west papau part 2
      • Unplugged on the Pacific Coast of Panama
      • Amazing Angola
      • Master Angler 2021
      • Master Angler Winners Interviews
      • All Ireland U21 Boat championships
      • The unassumingly fascinating shark
      • Season of the river monster
      • a day afloat for britains hidden fishes
      • Scottish LRF
      • Isle in the currents
      • Time to go single?
    • October 2021
      • Shad Power part 3
      • Expedition Latham
      • Spain on the fly
      • Shark Escape
      • Salcombe small boat festival
      • SIB fishing
      • Getting Hooked Up with Nigel Bowditch
      • Holderness Hounds
      • Bristol channel forecast october to december
      • The rise of the micro metals
      • Cornish Lure Festival 2021
      • Catch and Cook
      • Never give up
      • return of the bass
      • Franks Fishing Festival
    • September 2021
      • Pembrokeshire bass lure tournament 2021
      • LRF Gurnards and an alien encounter
      • An introduction to slow pitch jig fishing in the UK
      • The changing face of Chesil
      • Getting Hooked up with Craig Gosling
      • Aquatic Captives And Tearaway Sun Sharks
      • ShadPower2
      • Mud Wrestling with Redfish in Louisiana
      • Costa Rica – Jungle Tarpon and ocean going goodies!
      • The Generation Game
      • Penzance Treasure
      • Talking Sharks
      • bluemouth
      • Ireland inshore reef fishing
      • Silver dusk
    • August 2021
      • Sea Angling Classic 2021
      • Ilfracombe
      • Tope – The predator within easy reach
      • Brixham – LRF Mecca
      • On the drift
      • Egi…what?
      • Shad Power
      • The search for a sailfish
      • Cuba on the fly
      • Specimen hunting in Fenit
      • Silver Dawn Part 1
      • The Forgotten County
      • Getting Hooked Up with Gruu
      • Chasing Ghosts
      • A time for change
      • to boat or not to boat
    • July 2021
      • Understanding Black Bream
      • Getting Hooked Up with Ben Stockley
      • The search for a yellowfin tuna
      • smoothound hunting
      • Finding the conditions
      • Boat fishing on Bonaire
      • For the Rhyl of it
      • Dawn Ray-ed
      • Fish Pedasi – Panama
      • The Big LERF 2021
      • Toothy Critters
      • Paddling for gilts
      • Wrasse n Smash
      • So what about colour
      • A sole surprise
      • SAC Press Release July 21
    • June 2021
      • Ascension Island Diaries part 1
      • light shore game fishing on Bonaire
      • Untouched Sudan
      • Getting Hooked up – with Gareth Griffiths
      • In it to win it
      • Bristol Channel Forecast July to September
      • Time to boat
      • Bristol Channel ray fishing aboard Lorna Doone
      • Planning a smooth day at sea
      • Sensational Shad
      • Yak Attack Ireland
      • Road to redemption
      • Summer of LERF
      • Bass lure fishing in pembrokeshire
      • Bassackwards
      • Sea Angling Classic
    • May 2021
      • Day of the Ray
      • A slice of Lyme
      • Incredible India
      • Getting afloat and chasing records
      • How to catch a bristol channel smoothound
      • The risk of closures
      • Wig’ed Weekend
      • Hookpoint: Phase 2
    • April 2021
      • Spurred On
      • Pure Smut
      • India Barramundi
      • A night time crusade
      • Going light on the Bristol Channel
      • Shark Waters
      • Looking through the lens
      • Seaspiracy Conspiracy
    • March 2021
      • AFAW Tournament Match Pro MK2 – First Look
      • Kicking back on the Caribbean Coast
      • 3 double figure bass 2021
      • Blue Skate – Here to stay?
      • Bristol Channel Spring Forecast
      • Britain’s Hidden Fishes and the Big LERF
      • Tales from the dragons tail
      • Hookpoint: The App
    • February 2021
      • That time in Costa Rica
      • Northern Silver
      • Panama – Fishing the Pacific my way
      • Winter Flounder
      • Chesil Heaven or Chesil Hell?
      • Just a bigger pond
      • Where have all the flounder gone?
      • Death of the independent review
    • January 2021 issue
      • lifes little luxuries
      • Fishing for survival
      • North East Rock Rods
      • Graphene – The game changer?
      • An introduction to fishing the Fal estuary
      • Bristol Channel forecast – January to March
      • Is fishing exercise?
      • Time to join the Angling Trust
    • 2020
    • 2019
  • Email subscription
  • Other Info
    • Youtube channels
      • The Fish Locker
      • Dogfish Diary
      • Chris O’Sullivan Fishing
      • The Gambling Angler
      • Saltwater Lure Fishing
    • Facebook fishing pages
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