Madeira

[MackerelMan]

we're off to Madeira in April
we don't do boats

• do we need a licence to fish off the shores?

• apart from dangling rods over the 3000 foot cliffs, where are the best places to fish please?

[kingyfisher]

Many moons ago I remember seeing the locals fishing off a flat rock platform at the base of a high cliff.We were looking down from on high,and were amazed to see how far the guys could cast a lightly weighted float for Garfish/Ballyhoo.
They used a string of floats spread out along the line which was fastened to a long bamboo pole,the floats got smaller the further towards the hook they were ,giving a sort of tapered weighting on the line .They cast the float like a fly fisher and could get up to 40-50yds ! Amazing ,wish I'd taken some pics .

[MackerelMan]

Thankyou very much for taking the time to send that info. We'll try that. Cheers