Sea Angler

The best-selling sea fishing magazine in the UK. Covering the seas around Britain and all the fish that inhabit them. Sea Angler magazine is essential digital for true followers of the beautiful art, covering deep sea boat action through to shore fishing. Sea Angler brings together the complete package providing reviews of the latest rigs and exclusive offers for the world's best brands. As well as engaging the biggest names in the sport to provide you with their tips and tricks to catch the best fish! Covering the seas around Britain and all the fish that inhabit them. Sea Angler is the best selling sea fishing magazine in the UK. Whether it’s: baits, rigs, poles, marks, setups or equipment you are interested in, you’ll stay abreast of all the comings and goings with a Sea Angler digital magazine subscription.

WELCOME • ISSUE 629 DECEMBER 2023

Sea Angler

UP-RIVER BASSING EXPLORING A NEW FRONTIER • Bass angling innovator Sam Cox has opened up a brand-new fishery by targeting bass in freshwater on the Norfolk Broads – with staggering results. Here he explains his approach and technique to help you plan your own 2024 freshwater bass campaign in your local river

A PRO’S GUIDE TO CHESIL COD • Professional shore fishing guide Vince Knight shares his expert tips and experience on how to bag a chunky winter cod from one of England’s most iconic deep water shore venues

LRF FEEDING FRENZY • Ben Bassett recounts an unforgettable evening’s fishing where the humble and underappreciated scad was the star of the show

FLOUNDERING IN PLASTICS • Dr Roger Munro uses his 35 years of catch data to ask whether an alarming reduction in the catch-rate of flounders across much of the UK’s estuaries is linked to decades of plastic polluting both the freshwater and marine environments

SURF’S UP • Dave Lewis explains how to fish one of Wales’s classic surf beaches, Freshwater West

A FYNE DAY FOR FISHING • Known for its oyster fishery Loch Fyne can produce some superb fishing and throw up some welcome surprises. Joe Whyte profiles some of the best marks to try and explains when, where and how to maximise your chances of success

DECEMBER 2023 • Top tides and tactics for flounder and ling as the end of the year approaches

Tales from the tideline FROM SHADOW, FROM SAND • Do you remember your first time? Simon Smith brings to life the magic and beauty of one young man’s first night fishing session

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

YOUNG RODS • Sea Angler’s celebration of the great angling achievements of its many younger readers

WHITING A FISH FOR ALL SEASONS • Available from the Scilly Islands to Shetland, whiting have been a standby of many a boat fishing trip over the past 128 years. Angling historian Mike Millman traces the passage of time and the biggest fish caught from 1912 to the present day

GRAND SLAMMERS • Skipper Dave Roberts and crew head into the racing tides of the Bristol Channel on a mission to achieve ‘the slam’: four species of rays in one day

FAREWELL TO A FLAMING GOOD SKIPPER... • Dave Lewis talks to Colin Penny, one of the UK’s most popular, longest-serving and well-respected charter skippers as he makes plans to retire

JOHN DORY UK & IRELAND SPECIALIST SPECIES HUNTING • Dave Lewis explains where, how and when to add one of the most unusual-looking and highly-rated table fish in the UK to your species list. What’s more, any shore catch could instantly become a new UK record!

THE HISTORY OF FLUOROCARBON • Many anglers now wouldn’t consider using anything else, but fluorocarbon line was only developed in 1970 and at the time was one of angling’s technological great leaps forward

THE ORIGINAL SPECIES...