shark – Fallons Angler

Friday Allan’s Fangler (FAF) – March 2017, and on time!! Yeehah!!!

Leave a Comment / ALLAN'S FANGLER, SMALL FRY / By Fishpool

Trumping marvellous Editor Fallon tends to get nervous when Fishpool talks politics. Hardly surprising really, given my rather unusual stance that encompasses Far-Right Liberalism with Globalised Nationalism and Feminist Mormonism. So when I suggested that I begin the round up of March’s news with a story involving China, a giant orange slug and an odd …

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Friday’s Allan’s Fangler (FAF): August 2016 (even more-even more belatedly)

Leave a Comment / ALLAN'S FANGLER, SMALL FRY / By Fishpool

Kissing with Confidence Barbless hooks, keepnets, unhooking mats, net dips, boilies, nuts, cancerous maggot dyes, night fishing, multiple rod use, braid, bent hook rigs, gaffs, knotted net meshes, floating poles, fixed leads and leads that drop off, bolt rigs, spears, harpoons, hand grenades……….we’ve argued them all to death, but a recent Angler’s Mail focussed on …

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Dawn on the Hook

Leave a Comment / BIG FISH, FALLON FISHES / By Garrett Fallon

“Wexford. The oldest place in Ireland,” some would say. “Like Cornwall, only wetter,” say others. I snuck an old sturdy carp rod into a packed car heading for a family holiday in Ireland, and found myself fishing on Booley Bay beach near Duncannon on the aptly named Hook Peninsula. The tide was racing in, the …

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Jabberjaw

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 42, BITS'N'PIECES, FISH WE LIKE / By Fishpool

Fishpool was in a glorious state of reminisce earlier in the week – and was suddenly struck by the mental image of a drumming great-white shark. For anyone else who may have forgotten, The Neptunes are a band from the future. Purveyors of ‘rock’ music, they are a five-piece, made up of teenagers Biff (guitars), …

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Blue shark

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 28, BITS'N'PIECES, FISH WE LIKE / By Fishpool

While Fishpool recently discovered that some sharks are utterly Pathetic, one species for which such an adjective could not be less accurate, is the blue. The blue shark (Prionace glauca) is a fish of temperate and tropical waters, occurring in all but the coldest seas. It is a slender bodied shark, with large pectorals and …

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Great white shark

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 25, BITS'N'PIECES, FISH WE LIKE / By Fishpool

No fish commands such fear and awe, or is perhaps so misunderstood as the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). This is a truly massive fish – specimens approaching 20 feet in length have been reliably reported, while many believe the great white can grow significantly larger. They are found throughout the world – though require …

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Dwarf lanternshark

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 25, BITS'N'PIECES, FISH WE LIKE / By Fishpool

Only one fish can follow a shark that grows to 20 feet in length, and that is a shark that doesn’t grow more than twenty centimetres…. The dwarf lanternshark (Etmopterus perryi) is widely regarded as the smallest shark species in the world. It is also one of the least known, with a small population only …

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Jaws

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 25, BITS'N'PIECES, THINGS WE LIKE / By Fishpool

Based upon Peter Benchleys’s 1974 novel of the same name, Jaws celebrates its fortieth birthday this year. Winning three Academy Awards, the film was an enormous success, but despite being commercially and critically acclaimed, the depiction of the great white shark as a man-eating monster has not helped the species’ true identity. Director Steven Spielberg …

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Walker Bay

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 25, BITS'N'PIECES, PLACES WE LIKE / By Fishpool

For many years South Africa was regarded as one of the premier spots in the world for shark fishing, with anglers coming from across the globe, many hoping to hook a great white shark. As the great white became increasingly threatened throughout its range, many countries, South Africa included, banned the fishing for them. This …

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British great whites?

Leave a Comment / BACK OF THE SHED, Bits 'n Pieces Issue 25, BITS'N'PIECES / By Fishpool

Every summer, with Parliament out and news stories slow, someone will spot a shark off The Needles or the Cornish Coast and the papers will explode with tales of Jaws prowling around our beaches. Invariably, the sighting proves to be a basking shark, an enormous, but utterly harmless plankton eater. Just occasionally though, these stories …

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Bluntnose Six-Gilled Shark

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 20, BITS'N'PIECES, FISH WE LIKE / By Fishpool

Also known as the cow shark, the bluntnose six-gilled shark (Hexanchus griseus) is a fish of the deep sea. Growing large – in excess of 20 feet in length – this is the largest member of the Hexanchidae family of sharks that date back over 200 million years. Aside from the additional gill slit from …

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Tiger Shark

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 18, BITS'N'PIECES, FISH WE LIKE / By Fishpool

Found in tropical and sub-tropical waters throughout the world, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is one of the most widespread fish in our seas. It is classed as an ‘average’ sized shark, though they will still reach a length of 15 feet which is plenty big enough in Fishpool’s eyes. The largest ever caught was …

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The Shark Arm Case

Leave a Comment / BACK OF THE SHED, Bits 'n Pieces Issue 18, BITS'N'PIECES / By Fishpool

On the 25th April 1935, Australian fishermen Albert and Charles Hobson caught rather more than they had bargained for. A 14 foot long tiger shark (see Fish we Like) was tangled in their line and having dragged it to shore they decided to take it to a local aquarium. There it became a popular exhibit …

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Basking Shark

Leave a Comment / Bits 'n Pieces Issue 17, BITS'N'PIECES, FISH WE LIKE / By Fishpool

Every summer comes the same sensationalist headlines: ‘Giant Killer Shark off Prestatyn!’, ‘Great White at Weston!’, normally accompanied by a photo of a slightly droopy dorsal fin poking through the waves. Though there is evidence of great whites in British waters (more of that in a future Bits and Pieces), the sightings that are sparking …

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