Fishing World

EXPLORING NEW GROUND

IF you spend most of your time fishing areas that are well known to you, in general you develop a lot of knowledge in relation to the tides, wind conditions and water clarity that make a spot work. Be it a point in a cod dam or a marlin spot well offshore, we develop a type of almost unconscious familiarity with certain places where, after fishing these spots for many years, we go there with understanding, expectation and a lot of knowledge based on previous experience. Sometimes I find myself in one of my favourite spots and can’t for

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