I have compiled a list of sea fishing links here which you might find useful. I could have crammed this page with links but there's a lot of rubbish out there. If it's on this page it's because I use it and it's the best I've found so far. If anyone has any suggestions for other good sites please contact me.
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Online Shopping
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Spotty Dog Tackle offer a great range of specialised products which other online dealers often do not seem to have. Their extensive range of Kamasan & Gamakatsu hooks, HiRO terminal tackle and Ultima lines alone make Spotty Dog Tackle well worth a look. Specialist beach casting blanks from the likes of Century and Conoflex are available along with an extensive range of shore fishing reels and some specialist multipliers. Friendly staff, great customer support and prompt deliveries with orders. Click on the link to the left to go to their website.
Excellent range of products, outstanding customer service, orders are always prompt, on time, and more importantly - right!. Thoroughly recommended.
Veals
A Scottish company which I have used a few times in the past and are reliable.
Glasgow Angling Centre
This is an Irish dealer I have started to use. Henry's stock the sadly missed Storm Jointed Thundersticks. If you're going plug fishing for bass you need some of these in your tackle box.
Henry's Tackle Shop
Local Links
The biggest and most comprehensive tackle dealer in Co. Kerry. Have a look at the contacts page for more information.
Landers Outdoor World
Charter fishing in the quiet waters of Castlemaine Harbour and Dingle Bay. All manner of species and techniques are catered for but the thornback ray and tope provide awesome sport in the shallow waters here.
Castlemaine Harbour Fishing
Renowned bass angler Bob Moss, provides information on ghilling services, rod building and his own range of books covering sea angling in the area. If you're coming to Kerry don't leave home without a copy of these, they are invaluable!
Bob Moss
The Lynne family in Brandon are providing self drive boats for anglers wishing to explore the waters of Brandon Bay. This is a unique opportunity for anglers wishing to head off for the day themselves. The 18ft open boats are powered with 15hp engines and allow anglers the freedom to explore the waters from Brandon Head right around to Castlegregory.
Brandon Bay Boat Hire
Kevin Braine provides a full time ghilling service around the Waterville area in South Kerry. He is also the man behind the excellent range of excellent frozen baits KB Baits.
KB Fishing
O'Sullivans Marine are the premier boat builders here in Tralee.
O'Sullivans Marine
Fisheries Boards
Good site with plenty of information on game, sea and coarse angling in Ireland.
Central Fisheries Board
This website has plenty of specific sea fishing information for the Shannon Region including detail on popular marks and reports from charter boats working out of the estuary.
Shannon Regional Fisheries Board
Contact details are listed elsewhere on this site, Tralee falls under the remit of this region.
South Western Regional Fisheries Board
Irish Sea Angling
Huge website here with loads of information regarding shore and boat fishing in Ireland. The best resource for all round sea angling information in Ireland. SAI also hosts a number of very active forums, this huge community of contributing anglers have amassed a huge collection of information which is updated daily.
SAI
SAI - Forums
The official homepage for the Irish Specimen Fish Committee. Details regarding Irish records, specimen weights, claim forms and regulations can all be found here.
Irish Specimen Fish Committee
Ghilling service in the south east which also provides summer schools and courses on salt water fly fishing and lure fishing with an emphasis primarily on bass.
SEAi
Cork sea angler Chris Lipinski's personal website with good information on shore marks around the Cork area and up to the minute catch reports.
Chris Lipinski's Site
Useful website here with aerial photographs of almost every marina in Ireland.
Marinas - Ireland
Sea Fishing
Home to Sea Angler Magazine. This website which has been launch recently (2007) is shaping up to be a fishing super site!
Go Fishing - Sea Angler Magazine
Neil Mackellow's home page with an emphasis on casting and reel tuning.
Neil Mackellow
John Holden home page. Great rod reviews and again emphasis on long range shore casting. Some excellent CD-ROM's and DVD's on reel tuning and long range casting are available to purchase.
John Holden
Huge online resource from one of the UK's most respected anglers Mike Thrussel. Excellent forums but the back catalogue of articles covering every imaginable aspect of shore fishing is what makes this site stand out.
World Sea Fishing
A parody of Yahoo!/Google. Fishoo is an online fishing search engine.
Fishoo!
A cult publication ever since it was first released. This excellent online e-book deserves to be read "cover to cover" so to speak. Written by a leading biologist and fanatic angler.
Operation Sea Angler - Mike Ladle
Good resource of fishing information in the UK.
Total Fishing
A good overview of all the basics needed for successful shore fishing.
Sea Fishing Online
A very entertaining site with a unique take on sea angling in our waters.
The Numpties Guide to Sea Fishing
Fish Identification
Very comprehensive online database. The detail here will keep fish geeks occupied for hours!
FishBase
A UK based website which offers full colour pictures and fact sheets on all salt water species living in Irish and UK waters.
The Aquarium Project
Weather and Tides
Again, listed on the tides page of this site. The best online tidal prediction software out there.
Admiralty EasyTide
This website provides basic tidal information for a number of ports around Ireland. This site however works very very well on mobile phones and is listed here for this reason.
Tides - Ireland
A New Zealander, Ken Ring has risen to prominence with his long range weather predictions. Unlike conventional meteorology, he bases his forecasts on the cycle of the moon.
Predict Weather
More details on this excellent resource are available on the weather page. This is the best website for short term forecasts for Ireland.
Met Éireann
Miscellaneous
In depth article on all aspects of mullet fishing by Leon Roskilly.
Mullet Fishing
Saltwater FlyFishing
You have to head stateside to get quality info on this branch of our sport. Excellent forum. You'll find all you need here.
Reel Time Saltwater Fly Fishing Forum
An earlier version of this site went offline for a while. Now it's back with the biggest on-line database of saltwater fly patterns & tying instructions.
Salt Water Fly Tying - Joe Branham
Good site with plenty of useful information on all aspects of fly fishing. Plenty of very informative articles and even a few saltwater patterns.
Global Fly Fisher
