Audio Angling

Recorded in 2013. The Common Skate tagging program that has done so much to bring the Scottish population back from near collapse is taken for granted these days. But back in the e...

Recorded in 2013. Controversey has surrounded the catching of Scotlands first ever Porbeagle Shark by Dr. Dietrich Burkel off the Mull of Galloway back in 1970. Here Dietrich Burke...

Recorded in 2013. For still water species of coarse fish, far and away the most productive in terms of individual growth, particularly for Bream and Tench, are gravel pits left to ...

Recorded in 2013. Fishing abroad for hard fighting warm water game fish species can be a costly business if you fish from a boat or with a guide. Here shore angler Ken Robinson giv...

Recorded in 2013. Perch were once a prolific fish. Then in the 1960's, shallow ulcer disease all but wiped the species out in the UK. Now nearly 50 years on, from those few resista...

Recorded in 2013. Back in the 1960's, the River Lostock in Lancashire was devoid of fish. Now in 2013 it's full of the things ranging from coarse species to Brown Trout. There's ev...

Recorded in 2013. Back in the 1980's, Phill Williams set himself a target of 100 UK fish species, 300 worldwide fish species, a double figure wild trout, a 100 pound fish in freshw...

Recorded in 2013. As anglers, we've all seen change, particularly in the numbers and sizes of our more popular fish species. But this has been going on since the 14th century. Here...

Recorded in 2013. The River Ribble in Lancashire was illegally stocked with Barbel during the 1970's. By the turn of the century, it was producing some of the biggest specimens in ...

Recorded in 2013. As the captor of the last Mako Shark in UK waters back in 1971, and having thoroughly researched the species for his new book The Shark Hunter, David Turner tells...

Recorded in 2013. It's not that long ago that fish which would make the angling press these days even from a boat, were regularly being caught from the shore in Scotland. Absolute ...

Recorded in 2012. From his first Mako encounter in the late 1950's up to the last ever British Mako Shark catch in 1971 which was aboard his Falmouth based boat 'Huntress', Robin V...