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 618 FEBRUARY 2023
Sea Angler
THE SOLUNAR EFFECT: FACT OR FICTION? • How much impact does the solar system really have on fish behaviour? Mike Thrussell goes into space to explore the theory behind how the sun, the moon and the tides influence fishing
NORWEGIAN WOOD (BRIGNALL) • Top UK shore angler David Wood-Brignall has set up camp in northern Norway turning visiting anglers’ fishing dreams into reality
LRF IN THE ABC ISLANDS • Damion Fryer packs light and makes the most of his opportunities on a family holiday to Aruba in the Dutch Caribbean
CHEB AND FLOW • Will Cooper explains how to target wrasse this winter using soft plastics and Cheburashka weights
KNOWING NICK • Dave Lewis remembers his friend, the late angling broadcaster and journalist, Nick Fisher, who changed the face of angling on TV in the 1990s
EAST LONDON BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT • South Africa’s Indian Ocean coast around the city of East London produces some world-class shore fishing opportunities, as local angler Charles Foster explains
SKER ROCKS • With access to deep water at close range this low water Bristol Channel venue is a top ray mark with productive fishing all year-round
MOUNT BATTEN PENINSULA • As a wartime RAF base one of Plymouth’s most famous marks was out of bounds to angling until the 1990s. Local expert Mike Millman explains what to expect and how to fish the breakwater and surrounding marks
RAMSGATE • David Mitchell on the fishing options from this historic Kent angling port
HANDS DEEPS, WHITING GROUNDS AND THE RANNEYS • Mike Millman shares his knowledge of three very different boat fishing options to try off Cornwall’s south coast
ZEN FISHING • Simon Smith enters a higher plane of awareness by practicing the art of slow fishing
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED • Catch a specimen fish to stand a chance of winning some great prizes from Okuma
YOUNG RODS • Sea Angler’s celebration of the great angling achievements of its many younger readers
GALLOPING WEST • Essex charter skipper, Scott Belbin, and family head west for a week aboard The Galloper on an adventure port-hopping along the South Coast
THE STRAIT AND NARROW • A lifetime of fishing has taken Mike Millman all over the world in search of new adventures. But for him Gibraltar, Britain’s outpost in the Mediterranean, remains the perfect fishing holiday destination
POPPING IN PEDASI • Globetrotting angler, Dave Lewis, on rock ‘n’ roll, roosters and rain during his first trip to fish Pedasi on Panama’s Azuero Peninsula
WE’RE GOING TO IBIZA! • An overnight trip in the Mediterranean from Spain to the Balearic Islands presents the perfect opportunity to tackle two species of tuna, and enjoy some Spanish hospitality...
GREAT GRANDERS • Sea angling historian, Mike Millman, tells the fascinating stories of four spectacular big game records
BIGEYE TREVALLY • Be...