Midlands angling magazine Match Fishing has been filming underwater to see how fish at commercial waters react to the techniques match anglers are using. The series is the brainchild of Joe Carass, who has taken a lead from the carp fishing world – where underwater filming has revolutionised the way that anglers fish. Joe explained: […]
Match Fishing Magazine Goes Underwater
Ivan’s Great Italian Lake Session
Ivan’s Great Italian Lake SessionTaska backed Ivan Battisti is fresh from a superb session on a big lake in Northern Italy which saw him back a trio of big commons to just short of 50lb. Fishing white fish boilies on a D-rig utilising a Baseline Tungsten Aligner and Core Zero, Ivan, who bagged fish from […]
Rob Wootton Wins His Third Ivan Marks Festival
Rob Wootton has won the Ivan Marks Festival 2013 at The Glebe with 238lb. Rob drew peg 47 on Uglies Pool on the second day of the two-day event where he flicked a long lined rig to the island and caught carp shallow on 6mm pellet…. It’s the third time he’s won it – well […]
World Record Cod Over 100lb Caught Off Norway
Norway has produced a world record rod caught cod in the shape of this monster weighing just short of 104lb to German angler Michael Eisele. Michael was fishing at Breivikfjord near Hammerfest in the north of the country and weighed in at 47lb (103.6lb) nearly 5lb over the IGFA All Tackle world record for the […]
World Record Giant Snakehead
Thai angler Bkkguy John Ang Woon Heng might have a new world record giant snakehead on his hands after landing this 26lb brute. The enormous fish would beat the existing IGFA All Tackle world best mark for the species by a massive 4lb and it’s believed he is submitting a record claim. Great news also […]
Video Catch And Release Competition For Juniors From The IGFA
The IGFA is launching a video competition for young anglers who can show that they know how to safely handle and return fish. Fisherman the world over up to 16 years of age are invited to submit a video entry of no more than three minutes in length and the best might find themselves in […]
Huge Brown Trout From New Zealand Could Be New World Record
In New Zealand angler Otwin Kandolf may be unable to claim a world record for this monster Brown Trout – despite it being over the current best mark and the official weighing process at a local buther’s being filmed and shown live on television. The 93cm long female fish was weighed at 20.5kg (45lb) on […]
Dent Strikes At The Oaks To Make Fish O Mania Final
Everything seems to be going right for James Dent (MAP/Marukyu), a 21 year old Joiner from Yarm, with two recent wins under his belt already this year in the Dynamite Baits Festival and qualifying for the ‘Maver Match This’ Final, as well as coming second in the Milo Festival and being selected for Sensas U23’s […]
Full Moon Fifty For Couturier
French carp ace Franck Couturie fished under a full moon for this 50lb common carp caught from a French lake he’s targeting. Franck fished a Taska Line Aligner Combi rig with a 20mm Trigga Pineapple N’Butyric topped with a 16mm Pop Up at the business end.
Four Carp Over 40lb From Public French Lake
Dennis Hellings first French trip of the year produced a string of big mirrors topped by a 47.4lb beauty, with two more fish over 40lb. The Taska backed Belgium angler was fishing a public lake in northern France and baited up with Dreambaist BAM baits. Dennis takes up the story: “Every year I go around […]
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Scott Improves His Carp Fishing!
Scott Horrocks was over the moon to catch a 33lb carp on his first visit to Linear Fisheries under the guidance of tutor Andy Ormrod. Andy, who runs Bolton based http://www.improveyourfishing.co.uk, selected the Oxfordshire complex because Scott had been catching carp to 16lb close to his Lancastrian home but felt he was ready for something […]
Bream Feed For John Sherwood Memorial
Over fifty anglers turned up at Redditch’s Arrow Valley Lake for the John Sherwood Memorial match and they were greeted with strong winds – conditions which often see bream feed well as the daytime light values are cut down. And so it proved with winner Mark Hemmings tempting eight of them plus two carp on […]
Mark Mugs Eric’s Cat
The catfish are certainly starting to feed at Shatterford Lakes. Following the capture of a potential fishery record last week from Master Lake (‘Monster Moggie May Have Broken Shatterford Best’), Kidderminster angler Mark Mole decided to fish Eric’s Lake and was rewarded with this 22lb 2oz fish. He was using a zig rigged boilies, so […]
New World Common Carp Record Landed In France
Meet the biggest common carp ever landed – all 100lb 8oz of it! The mighty fish came from Etang La Saussaie in the Champagne region of France and was caught by Colin Smith. The carp, which came from peg 14 on the lake on Premier Bait, came at 6.45pm. It was last captured in 2011 […]
Benwick Sports Stocks Browning Poles
Benwick Sports of Soham in Cambridgeshrie are now stocking Browning poles and are holding the largest stock of poles in East Anglia. The Browning models they have in stock include the Z12, Z8 and Z6 models. Click on this link and use the navigation on the left t find the Browning poles: http://www.benwick-sports.co.uk/indexmatch.htm Normal opening […]
