Great Fishing Excuses

Any good fisherman needs a breadth and depth of superb fishing excuses. The minute people see you with rod and reel returning from a trip they will want to ask you “catch much?”. Do in order to save face you need a good excuse on the tip of your tongue. Here are my tried and tested quality excuses:   Overfished Global warming North wind East wind South wind West wind Dull hooks Cheap line or tackle Followed another fishermans advice…

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HDR Photography of Cornwall

I really like HDR photos, although I’ve never actually gotten round to taking any myself. These are a few of my favourites that have been taken around Cornwall:

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Three on Thursday – Beck

  This week Beck is up for Three on Thursday. He is an American, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. I’m not a massive fan of all his work, but he has some absolute jems. I like to listen to him when cruising around in the van.   Beck – Loser   Beck – E-Pro   Beck – Gamma Ray

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Spider Crabs

  Spider Crabs are awesome. They are gnarly looking, scary fellas, but they are pretty easy to catch and are darn tasty. They don’t have much brown meat but their long claws can get huge and contain some great white meat (their meat is a bit less strong than the edible/brown crab) Finding and Catching them: Spider Crabs start to turn up on our shores around late Spring time and by Mid Summer the larger males have turned up to…

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Cornish Mines – Photography

Mining used to be at the heart of the Cornish empire. Now they’re just beautiful ruins representing the former glory of Cornwall.    

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