Sporting Fish TV Trailer

Robin Howard aka Fishyrob moved to Brighton in 2002, having wandered down to the marina on a day trip from Essex and realised here was somewhere with such a variety  of fish that he just had to be there. At the time he was working in the City as an IT consultant. But here was a location by the sea within easy commuting distance to London - Brighton fitted the bill perfectly. Too well, as it turned out. Never expecting the East Sussex coast to affect him quite so much as it did, getting on the train into London really began to hurt, especially when the tides were big and the surf running.

But it's not just about Brighton, it's the miles and miles of rugged reefs to the east, the rivers which hold untold promise, and the beaches to the west which on their day are unrivalled in the UK for shore fishing. He began to think of other ways to create enough income to leave the City, eventually making the break in 2005, partly as his desire to be around Sussex grew too much and partly as a result of his IT skillset becoming old hat. After 18 years, computers were no longer fun.

In Brighton, one of his greatest pleasures was receiving fishy friends and taking them out to enjoy the local marks. The results were usually pretty good, and one of them gave him the encouragement he needed, "You should do this for a living". The idea stuck, and this is now his fourth year of guiding full time. He now gets to go fishing every day and no longer has to race for the last seat on the fast train to Victoria. Fishing every day means he has accumulated a fund of knowledge on the coastline and the techniques critical to success. In this series of programmes we'll be following him as he sets out in pursuit of the south coast's sporting fish.

 

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