Sea Fishing 4 Fun

Website of Baywater Anglers, created by Lindsey Green

Welcome to www.seafishing4fun.org, the website of Baywater Anglers, a sea fishing club based in Totnes and Torbay. We are a family club committed to encouraging others into the sport of sea angling and helping those who are already involved. As you browse through the site, clicking on images or text links below to find lots more pages, you will find information on shore fishing, rigs, boat fishing, bait and other areas that tickle our fancy, such as the occasional sidestep into the world of fly fishing in saltwater - often referred to as 'saltwater rodding'. We hope you find you find the site useful.

Baywater Anglers

Bass

Bass are one of the most prized of the sea fishing species, being a handsome, silver fish that fights hard and is tasty to boot. It also responds well to light tackle, whether it be fishing from boat with light baitcasters or float-fishing from shore with a match rod or similar. This link will take you to articles on bass fishing from shore and boat, estuary fishing, fly fishing, sandeels and bassing at Lannacombe.

Garfish may not be everybody's cup of tea but catch them on light tackle and they may well surprise you. Personally, I think that they are one of the most sporting of our British sea fish and very much enjoy fishing for them using ultra light tackle. Click on the links to find out more about fishing for them from both boat and shore.

Garfish

If mackerel grew to double figures, many British sea anglers would not bother to fish for anything else! These hard fighting sea fish are fun to catch, great as bait and respond to a variety of sea fishing techniques. Here we show you how with articles on shore fishing, fly fishing and boat fishing.

Mackerel

Pollack can be great fun for sea anglers, whether it be miles from the shore, drifting slowly over a wreck, or casting out from a rocky headland. Here we offer some advice on some of the most popular sea fishing strategies for these wonderful fish, including shore, boat, wreck and fly fishing together with a peek at some of the most successful artificial lures.

Pollack

Plaice may not be one of the most sporting sea fish but, given the right tackle, they can put up a game scrap. Baitcasters and light sea fishing rods especially will give them a superb chance to perform. Here we show you how with articles on the fish itself, ragworms, shore fishing, including tandem traces and finally boat fishing techniques, including the highly successful predator rig.

Plaice

Wrasse are often one of the first species caught by sea anglers, hugging the rocks close to shore so that distance casting is rarely necessary. We look at several unusual sea fishing strategies, like pole fishing from the shore or using a variation of the flying collar rig from boat. Articles include catching wrasse from shore and boat, prawns and background information on the fish itself and, for those who like to experiment, how to catch them on the pole.

Wrasse

Tackle Zone is an area where we look at articles of sea fishing tackle that tickles our fancy. It includes reviews on tackle and a guide to some of the tackle shops in and around Torbay.

Tackle Zone

Tidal Tackle

As most of our fishing is done in Torbay, we thought that it might be useful to include a guide to some of the more popular marks.

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