Audio Angling

Recorded in 2011. As a bait digger for many years, Fleetwood based Dave Christy has a vast reservoir of knowledge on the distribution, gathering and keeping of marine worms for angling bait which he shares with us in great detail here.

Recorded in 2010. Andy Owen operates the angling catamaran 'Morgan James II' out of Port Dinorwic on the Menai Strait where has two contrasting options to offer his clients. The first of these is deep water wreck fishing out in The St. Georges Channel, the other being inshore reef, bank and open ground fishing for a vast array of popular species including Bream, Bass and Tope.

Recorded in 2011. Dave Builth skippers the charter boat Upholder out from Amble, while Rodney Burge was her previous owner. Both are members of the Amble lifeboat crew, and in their different ways, both know much regarding the history of sea angling along this part of the Northumbrian Coast.

Recorded in 2011. George Wilson is the manager of the widely acclaimed Highfield Fishery at Hambleton on Lancashire's Fylde Coast. Here he talks about the construction and management of the fishery.

Recorded in 2011. Zyg Gregorek owns the luxury multi lake and accommodation complex known as Anglers Paradise at Halwill in Devon. Here he talks us through the initial concept through to its completion and its prospects for the future.

Recorded in 2011. Martin Bray, as did his father Jack before him, operates the tackle shop and one time boat booking office on the quay at Looe in Cornwall which was the hub of Shark fishing in Britain, adjacent to the head quarters of the the Shark Angling Club of Great Britain. Then gradually it slipped into terminal decline.

Recorded in 2011. In the 1970's and early 80's, Frank Vinnicombe reputedly caught more Mako Sharks for his clients than every other boat and angler put together, earning himself the nick name The Mako Man.

Recorded in 2010. Salcombe charter boat skipper Chris Roberts talks to Graeme Pullen about the inshore, offshore and estuary prospects from the port.

Recorded in 2011. Full time fly fishing guide and instructor Mike Roden talks about fly fishing in the North West.

Recorded in 2011. Veteran Fleetwood trawler skipper Dick Farrer talks about his days on the old side winder trawlers running up to Iceland both before and during the Cod Wars.