Audio Angling

Recorded in 2010. The top side of Morecambe Bay up the Duddon Estuary was once alive with summer Cod, Plaice, Tope and Bass. Vast catches could be made there on a regular basis. Then it started to slip into decline. Here we look at the area in it's 1970's and 80's hey day.

Recorded in 2010. Tony Parry, skipper of Jensen II based at Rhyl in the summer and Liverpool over the winter talks about the history and current status of both fisheries, plus his thoughts on renewable energy in the form of offshore wind farms and their direct and indirect effects on fishing and fish distribution.

Recorded in 2010. As a dinghy angler who was present and participated in the famous Flyde Coast jumbo Cod fishing era between the mid 1970's and mid 1980's, Phill Williams takes a realistic as well as a nostalgic look at this probably never to be repeated event. Many huge Cod were taken very close in to Lancashire's Cleveleys shoreline. But it wasn't a case of success guaranteed, as very often there would days with little or no reward for your efforts, at times in weather and sea conditions at the limit of what the small un-sophisticated boats back then could handle

Recorded in 2009. Veteran angler Frank Bee talks about his long commercial and charter fishing career, and how that influenced the charter angling scene both at Fleetwood and in Morecambe Bay. Then, in his early 70's, he retired from the charter fishing and bought himself a small boat which amongst many good catches was responsible for the North West Cod record of 42 pounds.

Recorded in 2010. Gethyn Owen is an ex-Welsh International boat angler turned successful charter skipper operating out of Holyhead. A measure of that success is anglers fishing aboard his boat My Way having successfully claimed the Welsh records for Tope, Spurdog and Smoothhound, which in each case was returned to the sea alive.

Recorded in 2009. Mick Riley, sole survivor of a dinghy angling tragedy off Lancashire's Fylde Coast talks about the events leading up that day, the feeling of isolation and desperation of the situation, and of his ultimate rescue. Given a hard time later in the press, un-justifiably as it would turn out, here he put the record straight and tries to persuade other small boat anglers to be more safety conscious.

Recorded in 2009. Humberside sea angler Ian Burrett loved the Luce Bay area so much that he moved home there to set up the highly successful Onyermarks charter business. Ian is also a great advocate of conservation and a founder member of SSACN.