Grant Jones

I visited a friend in Norfolk who seemed insistent that shoals of mullet are few and far between in his parts; but having said that, he's a coarse angler and on our one walk by a harbour we saw a big shoal, so I take what he said with a rather hefty pinch of salt! The mepps technique is excellent, so long as they prove to be thin lips! Rather different story with the thick lips... a right pain they are! To the original poster, if you want to see more on this mepps technique I can recommend this very easy to follow step by step, it really will put fish on the bank and thin lipped mu

100% Smooth Hounds in the original post images. For a long time it has been assumed we have two species of smooth hound in British waters, the starry smooth hound and the common smooth hound (which grows considerably bigger in warmer foreign waters). Recent genetic research, however, has suggested all of the UK's hounds are in fact starry hounds, some just don't have the visible spots/stars. We shouldn't be too quick to assume these fish are commercial cast offs. Whilst that probability is high, as per the comments in this feature: Solent Hounds, these fish, like their smaller cous