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Getting your head around gear ratios

• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling (first published November 2021) Retrieve speeds can be really important in many styles of lure fishing, and those speeds are dictated by several factors, including your reel’s gear ratio.       […]

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Match the catch!

• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling (first published October 2021) We all know about ‘matching the hatch’, but what about ‘matching the catch’? Believe it or not, choosing a lure that imitates the fish you’re chasing […]

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Our feathered eyes in the sky

by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling • Most of us know that birds can be a great indicator of the presence of fish, but you might not have realised just how complex and subtle these feather-to-scale connections […]

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Cheating the tax man

• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling None of us particularly enjoy paying taxes, but when those levies take the form of a prize catch stolen from our lines by a hungry predator, the pain is real! […]