So for any of you that have been reading this from the very start you may have noticed it's been a very long time since I added an achievement to the short list at the bottom right of this page. Well as of now I can finally add a 3rd!
This is no major accolade to be singing and dancing about just like the other 2, to be fair as far as I can tell these are on the same sort of level in their respective magazines. I managed to get myself into the Sea Angler magazine for completing the Shimano mission for the Small-eyed Ray, a fish you probably haven't heard that I caught by now.... ***insert laughing face***.
So I sent in the picture thinking my name would get listed with the other guys on the page, but was literally ecstatic when my good friend Iain messaged me saying my picture got in!
As a subscriber to the magazine my copy was waiting for me at home when I got back from work, as you can imagine I wasted no time at all in rushing through to the page.
To go along with this I received a badge to be sewn onto a jumper or something along the lines once I've made my mind up which one.
I'm really enjoying my sea fishing at the moment and although I never set out for any of this kind of stuff, I noticed the weight for the fish in the magazine so just went with it on a why not basis. As I said in a previous post next year I am going to try for some trophies within the club I'm a member of but for myself not for any kind of recognition.
My sea fishing as most of you know very much started out with just playing around with LRF, then I joined the Wessex Tackle species hunt, a local store, to test myself a little and from there realised that if I wanted to get more species I was going to need to move on from just the light lure tackle.
This year I invested in some new gear for beach fishing, some 14ft rods and multipliers, tripod and a few other bits for comfort on the long nights more than anything else. I set myself a personal target of 30 species this year, currently I'm on 26, although due to some coming before I joined the Angling Trust species hunt and some out on a boat I'm on 22 officially on the hunt list.
This means I also got another badge for reaching 15 species. I believe the next one comes at 30 so I'll actually have something tangible to show I reached my goal, that will be cool.
Please excuse the poor quality of the pictures of these badges I took them on my phone resting them on my mouse pad.
I have really been enjoying seeing what fish I can find just casting out different rigs and different baits and obviously still doing some LRF from time to time, next year though I really want to push myself and see how far I can really take it.
Thanks for reading and as always tight lines.
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