Sep 14, 2016

Our Alderney Lure Festival 2016

The 3rd and 4th of September saw both local and visiting lure anglers congregate upon the beautiful island of Alderney for the annual Alderney Lure Festival. Hosted by Alderney Angling and its 4th year, it was great to hear the event was going from strength to strength, with a record turnout. Read more

Adam Kirby Notes, September 8 alderney, alderney angling, alderney lure only 24 hour species hunt, ballan wrasse, bass, competition, corkwing wrasse, garfish, giant goby, goldsinny wrasse, leopard spotted goby, mackerel, pollack, pouting, rock goby, scad, shanny, species hunt, tompot blenny, whiting

Sep 12, 2016

Postage Stamp

Managed to avoid Flounder so far this year, so that’s my 24th lure-caught species for 2016.

Adam Kirby Image, September 0 flounder, wales

Sep 11, 2016

My First Welsh Bass

A trip to visit relatives in Carmarthenshire this weekend gifted me the opportunity to fish a picturesque estuary on the flooding tide. The end result was a nice Bass on the 15g Caro rod. My first Welsh bass! Fought really well in the shallows and has left me wanting to do more of this style of angling.

Adam Kirby Gallery, September 0 bass, caro, hto stink pots, wales

Aug 30, 2016

Swanage Tompot Bonanza

Dropped in on Swanage Pier for a few hours this bank holiday and bumped into fellow light lure enthusiast, Ricki Hill. It was really firing in places and it was painful when I had to tear myself away, all too soon. Pleased to hear that Ricki found the rare Baillons after I left. I did add Black Bream and Pouting to my yearly tally. The number of Tompot Blenny was staggering.

Adam Kirby August, Gallery 0 black bream, dorset, pouting, swanage pier, tompot blenny

Aug 24, 2016

Painted Comber on Hardbait

Painted Comber on a Hart U-Vib 40

Adam Kirby August, Image 0 hardbaits, hart, hart u-vib 40, painted comber

Aug 22, 2016

Light Rock Fishing in Skopelos

As always, an awesome weeks holiday in Greece. This time on the island of Skopelos. Amazing how much fun you can have with just a travel rod, a spinning reel and a small bag of lures. Read more

Adam Kirby August, Gallery 0 amberjack, annular bream, damselfish, east atlantic peacock wrasse, goldblotch grouper, greece, mediterranean cardinalfish, painted comber, rusty blenny, scad, scorpion fish, skopelos, small red scorpionfish, two banded bream

Aug 21, 2016

Grouper Game in Greece

I was lucky enough to find a couple of these juvenile grouper lurking at the bottom of a quay in Skopelos, Greece. I believe them to be Goldblotch Grouper (Epinephelus costae), which I think is a first for me. You can’t help but love grouper. A proper rockfish! They both aggressively took small paddletails fished on 1g jigheads.

Adam Kirby August, Gallery 0 goldblotch grouper, greece, grouper, skopelos

Aug 20, 2016

LRF Amberjack

Probably the best sport I had in Skopelos was that offered by a tenacious little pack of juvenile Amberjack. Not particularly hard to hook-up once you found them – the faster the better! Super aggressive and great fun once hooked. Read more

Adam Kirby August, Gallery 0 amberjack, greece, skopelos

Jul 31, 2016

Apocalyptic Mackerel

Week 30. The week the Mackerel turned up. The week ALL the Mackerel turned up.

Adam Kirby Image, July 0 baitfish, mackerel, portsmouth

Jul 25, 2016

Portland Wrasse

We endeavoured to find a new wrasse mark this weekend but the results were slightly disappointing. Having said that, we did find some stunning scenery and worked out access routes, etc. In fact, I think we stumbled upon some great looking bass ground. Read more

Adam Kirby Gallery, July 0 ballan wrasse, dorset, portland, wrasse

Jul 19, 2016

Ladram Bay Hire Boat Fishing

Cracking day-out fishing Ladram Bay on one of the self-drive hire boats. Read more

Adam Kirby Gallery, July 0 ballan wrasse, boat, devon, ladram bay, mackerel, pollack

Jul 18, 2016

Shimano Soare Tidey

Whether I was fishing the latest must-have Japanese rockfishing tecnique, or just posh float fishing, I don’t know. But I really enjoyed fishing a small estuary system yesterday with the hope of a flounder or mullet. Instead this little bass obliged. I’d like to try it again.Read more

Adam Kirby Image, July 0 bass, caro, estuary, shimano, shimano soare, shimano soare tidey

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