I caught the fishing bug as a young lad more than 30 years ago and being based on the estuary of the River Colne in north east Essex I've been lucky enough to have the opportunity to fish much more regularly than many anglers can manage. I was also a professional bait digger and rod-builder for over a decade before moving away from the tackle/bait trade for a number of years.  I started up BlakDogTackle.com as a family-run, online only business in 2008 with the help of my wife, who runs the day-to-day administration of the company.  We currently specialise in supplying sea angling tackle, particularly tournament reel upgrades, light-line tackle and rod building equipment to UK and international customers and are increasing our range of products regularly so hopefully every sea angler will find something that is on their wish list amongst our products.

As a customer of a great many tackle retailers over the last 30 years I have long since recognised that good customer service is every bit as important as competitive prices. With this experience in mind the basic principles behind BlakDogTackle.com are simple; we will do our best to offer good-quality products at affordable prices, backed up with honest advice about the products we sell (even if it means you don't buy from us) and a high level of customer service.

While it would be impossible to test every single item of equipment personally (if only I had that much fishing time available) I do attempt to try out as many items as possible and will not retail equipment that I wouldn't be happy to use myself. Customers are also very much encouraged to review the products they have purchased; if an item we have sold is not up to standard we want to know about it.

In addition to BlakDogTackle.com I have, for some time now, run three other sea angling websites, under my internet nickname of Blakdog.  All three offer free advice and services to any sea angler that cares to visit them and if you want to see how my fishing is going then simply click on the picture below to take a look at my personal fishing blog, A Sea Anglers Notebook.

If you have placed an order with us then many thanks for your custom, if not then thank you for taking the trouble to visit; we hope you will visit us again and find something amongst our products that takes your fancy.

Tight Lines,

R Smith (aka Blakdog)

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