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 630 JANUARY 2024

Sea Angler

PRESSURE DROP • Struggling to know how, when, where, or even if to fish at all during the winter storm season? Use Dr Roger Munro’s masterclass on how wind and air pressure affect fish behaviour to supercharge your winter shore fishing

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON • On a mission to catch a 20lb spurdog from the shore, fishing pals Shaun Conlane and Liam Gunn head to a new mark in the Highlands with high hopes of finding their target species. But what else might they encounter on their Hebridean expedition?

ARMOURED MILITANTS BUILT FOR BATTLE! • Mike Millman, in his final piece for Sea Angler, delves into the British record fish history of the gurnard family

THE COD DETECTIVE! • There are still cod to be caught around the coasts of southern England and Wales despite their huge decline in numbers over recent years. Dave Lewis explains how using the detective skills of a good private investigator is the best method of locating your subject – a plump winter codling!

JANUARY 2024 • MIKE THRUSSELL PICKS OUT THE PERFECT TIDES AND TACTICS FOR TARGETING HUSS FROM THE SHORE AND BIG COD SHOALING UP OVER WRECKS

Tales from the tideline THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST • Memories of Christmases past come flooding back for Simon Smith as a new rod gets overshadowed by a long-forgotten gift from the past

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

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

MIKE MILLMAN THE ORIGINAL SEA ANGLING INFLUENCER • Whether you realise it or not your fishing has probably been influenced by Mike Millman, one of Sea Angler’s original contributors who was still writing for us right up until he passed away last month at the age of 90. We pay tribute to his remarkable life, work and contribution to sea angling

GALLOPING AFTER UNICORNS • Essex-based skipper of the Galloper, Scott Belbin, is looking forward to another run of codling in the outer Thames Estuary this winter when, hopefully, they will have packed on a few pounds and are on the feed!

IF YOU CHUM, THEY WILL COME! • A window of settled weather allows Dave Lewis to get offshore in search of blue sharks where his faith in the power of fish oil is finally rewarded

TRUE-BLUE WHITING UK & IRELAND SPECIALIST SPECIES HUNTER • Known for inhabiting deep water the blue whiting can be caught much closer to shore. In fact, you may have already caught one and misidentified it as its much commoner cousin, as Dave Lewis explains

PROFESSOR POLLACK & PARTNERS • Dr Simon Thomas explains how anglers and charter skippers have got together with two Universities to find out more about a worrying decline in the size and number of pollack

Q&A

THE FAIL-SAFE ROD ACTION • A rod’s action is a crucial component of how it performs, but what does it mean and how does it affect you casting?...