It was the late Ian Gillespie who coined the term ‘uptiding’ when he likened it to up-stream chub fishing. Ian (co-inventor of the original Breakaway lead and designer of the Spearpoint hook) was an early convert to uptiding after experiencing amazing results using the, then, new method. After a few years of comments like, “If you want to fish there why not move the boat there?”, the results started to speak for themselves. Well known anglers of the time, like Geoffrey Bucknell and Clive Gammon, came to Bradwell on Sea in Essex to sample what boat casting had to offer.
The basics of uptiding are fairly simple: a grip weight is cast up and across the tide. Line is then let from the reel until the weight is felt to have hit the seabed. More line is then paid out;
