This page has been introduced to the updated web site and will be used to provide reports on the fishing in Portugal and specifically on the trips made with customers and visitors using the holiday and escorted fishing services of Tightlines-Portugal and John Bate. So keep an eye on it over the coming weeks and months.

It also has an RSS feed you can load into your web browser and keep up to date with any breaking news or reports. (The little blue or orange symbol on the rh side of the address bar)

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The following are new visitor testimonial for some of our visitors making new or return visits to Portugal using the services provided by Tightlines-Portugal.

The fishing in Portugal is so fantastic!    

This is the second year we have fished with John and he looks after us so well that we will be fishing with him every year from now on.

Ireland is finished for us, the fishing in Portugal is so fantastic, with thousands of hard fighting carp in perfect condition (from the dams), good barbel fishing on the river and accommodation and food is very good, the Portuguese people are very friendly too.

What really impressed us that for a week we only saw two other anglers and they just passed us by whilst they were spinning for bass. We had miles of water to ourselves and not knowing either the next bite would be from a 1lb carp or from one of over 20lb.

Roy and the gang from Wigan