World Boat Team Champion 2006. World Team Silver 2005 & 2007. European Line Class Champion 2007. NFSA Wessex PM Champion seven times. Double NFSA Wessex Champion of Champions winner.

Achievements: Winning the Southend Boat Open comp as a junior angler three times on the trot – including the biggest cod of the comp for the same three years, beating all the adults – including a very miffed Mick Toomer! … Continue Reading

Fishing achievements include: Opening up the Scottish porbeagle shark fishery in Caithness by landing the first Scottish porgie outwith the Northern Isles. Fifteen caps for EFSA Scotland. Several major open competition wins. My first garfish at Plymouth! Winning a grand … Continue Reading

Author of “The Codling Crouch”. And I've caught a few codling over the years!

A member of WFSA boat team for 5 years until I took a break from International competition to concentrate on my charter boat business. Best result to date was helping Wales to its highest placing of 4th, and finishing in … Continue Reading

I list my personal bests/angling achievements as: a 165lb shore-caught Bronze Whaler shark; a 39lb cod from the boat; overall second- place at the Surfcast Wales International 2007

I'm a journalist with the Dundee morning paper, The Courier, and also The Sunday Post. For something like 15 years I wrote a weekly sea angling column for The Courier's sister paper, The Evening Telegraph

My 40-year dual passion for freelance photography and our countryside has resulted in regular publication in many top titles. Early photographic topics were as diverse as old bee hives, windmills and canal boats until I got my break with Sea … Continue Reading

I would list among my personal bests/angling achievements: Eight big cod from Dungeness beach in 1978: one weighed 8lb, six sat between 15lbs and 18lbs, three were just over 20lbs, and there was the small matter of a 32lb beast. … Continue Reading

I have lived and breathed the sea since an early age. I was serially dragged out of my bed at 5am to haul creels on my school holidays, and I’ve never quite been the same. I have owned and shared … Continue Reading