This was my 4th time back in the Azores attending the Azores Big Game Fishing Tournament - always a great time with good friends and an amazing location. My report was featured in Saltwater Boat Angling magazine in their January 2020 issue.
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Find out all about some of the best association water for salmon in the UK as I visit the Forres Angling Association on the River Findhorn in Scotland for Trout & Salmon magazine.
I was delighted that the Inari-Saariselka Tourism office in Finnish Lapland wanted to use my local salmon fishing story in their official tourism magazine. It starts on page 24 (Salmon Fishing By The Light of the Midnight Sun) but it is worth flicking through all the magazine to see what a visit to Finnish Lapland might have in store for you! I can highly recommend it and I will be going back as soon as I can for more fishing and wilderness adventures.
When I hatched a plan with Paul Procter last year to visit his main stomping grounds in the Cumbrian region of England, little did we both know what was to follow. Brown trout in the local rivers were the target but we could have never dreamed how the day would turn out, ending in his largest UK river trout ever. Paul wrote about the day's fishing in an exclusive story for Trout & Salmon Magazine's March 2018 issue and I supplied the photographs.
Totally at home on the banks of an English chalk stream - the Orvis Helios 3 F
I was invited by Orvis UK to test out their latest Helios 3 rods down on their beat of the River Test in Hampshire. I was not disappointed!
Fly fishing my way around the beautiful Inari-Saariselka area of Finnish Lapland under the midnight sun with Ville Kaipennen of Lapland Safaris looking for Atlantic salmon - Santa central come the wintertime, and its close Norwegian neighbour of Finnmark.
>>READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON FISHANDFLY.COM HERE...
One of my favourite shots from a trip to Pesca Maya lodge in Mexico's beautiful Ascension Bay. Pleased to see it getting some love from Hatch Magazine.
The superbly marked cheek of a large Cumbrian brown trout.
In a county better known for the copper mining history of the Lake District, it was in fact the stunning golden-bellied brown trout of the wild Cumbrian rivers that had drawn me north from my home in Sussex in early May. I stayed at the wonderful Hole House Cottage courtesy of The Coppermines & Lakes Cottages and spent 2 days on the rivers with Paul Procter, fly fishing for large and superbly marked brown trout...
>>Read the full article on FishandFly.com here...
One of my all-time favourite photos features this year in the 2017 Salmon & Trout Conservation UK Gamefisher magazine on page 30 picturing Jeremy Lucas on the Upper Eden. I loved the way the river snakes off into the distance and the obvious concentration of an expert angler in action.
(By the way, that was also me on the cover of the 2016 issue!)
I trialled the ThermoTorch 5, the FireCel Mega 6 and the ThermoCharge 6 for FishandFly.com. Firstly, all great names – they just sound like they are exactly what you will need for your adventures in the great outdoors!...
>>Read the full review on FishandFly.com here...
Marina Gibson is a popular up-and-coming Orvis-endorsed fly fishing guide in the UK with a large and growing social media following who loves all sorts of fishing and getting new anglers of all ages into the sport. She is now a brand new member of the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust and will be sporting her new BTT shirt proudly on trips to Christmas Island and Belize this year. Photo courtesy of Patrick Camber.
Earlier this spring, the inaugural 2017 London Fly Fishing Fair was staged over two days in the impressive main hall of London's Business Design Centre. As their UK representative, I was on hand to fly the flag for Bonefish & Tarpon Trust. Hosted by Orvis UK in their booth, I had plenty of interest in the work of the Trust, handing out a full box of BTT journals, membership leaflets and merchandise to UK fly anglers who stopped to talk, many of whom travel internationally to flats locations around the world. The international support for this new kind of consumer fishing show in the UK (New York’s Urban Angler, the Bahamas and several destination companies offering flats fishing trips were represented) was very well received by the public. The Fair is set to grow even larger next year with plans already underway for 2018. If you would like more information, please CONTACT ME.
A strange catch of a fish with an extending mouth while on holiday in Thailand had me wondering what I had caught. The fish experts at SportFishing Magazine has me covered with the answer and a missed world record opportunity apparently!
The 2016 Azores Airlines Big Game Fishing Tournament drew in teams from both sides of the Atlantic to these idyllic islands and the weather was much better than my last visit 2 years ago. Being on the winning boat meant I got to see and photograph the winning blue marlin for my article published in Saltwater Boat Angling magazine.
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It was a nice surprise to see my photograph of a pike being held low in the water prior to be being released named as Fly Dreamers photo of the week earlier in the month.
The eyes of the water wolf!
I had been saving this favourite Snook image of mine for the right feature article to come along and was very pleased when top US title Sport Fishing Magazine used it splashed across a double-page spread in the magazine's October 2016 issue.
You can read the full article online on their website at http://www.sportfishingmag.com/big-snook-fishing-tips
Last week I was delighted to be back in Ponta Delgada on beautiful Sao Miguel island in the Azores for the Azores Airlines 2016 Big Game Fishing Tournament ...
Sea trout like their cousins the salmon make their way upstream to spawn.
I was very pleased to be able to help out the Institute of Fisheries Management with their need for a sea trout image to grace the Spring 2016 cover of FISH, their very interesting members magazine.
Visiting likely locations to view and photograph leaping sea trout the last 3 years takes a lot of time and patience and there are plenty more occasions where nothing is seen than the few where I timed it just right. Still, having the chance to witness such a spectacular sight local to me in Sussex even just once a season makes all the cold muddy hikes across the countryside in the dead of winter worth it.
Zambuni PR organised a recent press day on the Orvis beat of the famous River Test in Hampshire. A collection of my fellow journalists and anglers braved the extreme conditions early on and were rewarded with some healthy brown and rainbow trout which were all returned. We also got to try out some of the latest Orvis fly rods and reels.