PHOTOS
My favourite reel - Everol from Italy
Little freshwater mullet (tainha)
You can catch a hundred carp a day!
Happy smiles while sea fishing :-)
Mario with some excellent Algarve red snappers
The fish love this Guardiana weir as much as the anglers!
You could catch more than twenty of these in a day of sea fishing
Mario with a dourado (dorado), also known as Mahi Mahi
Blue shark - one of twelve that day!
We have a few mirror carp in Portugal
Pleasure fishing - carp
Me on a private dam in Alentejo
Carp caught on a private dam in Alentejo
24lb carp caught on a private dam
41lb common carp caught at night with sweetcorn on a private dam
My mate Dave with a big carp
Client playing an Algarve Mako Shark
Robert and a string of skipjack tuna
My daughter sea fishing
Mario with an Algarve Golden Snapper
Secret weir... somewhere in Algarve!
Client with a dourada (dorada) - a female dourado (dorado)
Lovely Algarve dam in springtime
Some nice visitors
Secret river, Algarve
A strange ray we occasionally catch when shark fishing
The Alqueva Dam - the largest manmade body of water in Europe at over 200sq km
Classic Algarve beach scene
21 lb southern barbel
Barbel alley - John's secret spot
This is what we call snag fishing - the home of giant comiza barbel!
The BBC filming Fishing Impossible with me in 2016
German angling reporter fishing my secret river
Gary Spencer with an Algarve barbel
The BBC filming Fishing Impossible with me in 2016
Russell and his lovely Algarve southern barbel
Russell in the Alqueva dam
Young Tony and his Algarve barbel
John's bass fishing boat
Paul Bowen with an Algarve barbel
Happy client with a normal barbel
Possibly the most difficult place I know to fish. Home to hundreds of monster barbel!
Barbel Society member barbel fishing with me
Portuguese carp record holder, Chris Whitman, with a medium size carp
Playing a nice fish on the Alqueva dam
Terry - a regular visitor from England with a medium size carp
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SEA AND FRESHWATER FISHING IN PORTUGAL
With the one and only John Bate!