It can take years to learn how to fish a new location effectively. Friendly advice from locals, joining a club and using your ‘watercraft’ skills will all help to accelerate your progress but at the end of the day, boots on the beach and trial and error is what counts.
This is the situation I found myself in when I moved to the north Kent coast in 2013. With very few other shore anglers to be found I spent countless hours researching the shore at low water, fishing different tides, different times, different tactics and recording it all on a spreadsheet in the hope of figuring out how to consistently get results at my chosen marks. To be honest, after hundreds of hours of fishing with very little to show for it, I gave up and my interest went elsewhere. How I wish there had been the opportunity at the time to call on a professional, such as Vince Knight who runs Specialist Fishing Guiding services and takes clients out fishing on the very same beaches on which
