What Do You Spend?

Catching fish doesn’t have to be a challenge to your wallet

PUTTING CASTING MATTERS ON HOLD, I’ll focus instead on the price of beach fishing. I have two reasons for doing so. First, the many questions concerning rods and reels for casting a long way. Second, and far more important, the wide and growing perception that beach fishing done properly has become a big-money game.

I have had writing this article in mind for a long time, but what finally prompted me to wade into such contentious waters was a phone call from a reader fairly new to fishing, who had been advised that to do the job properly, he should spend some £500 on a rod and reel. Plus, ideally, that he should have a matched pair of each. What did I think?