Former editor of many a fishing magazine, owner of Total-Fishing.com and MD of a pest control company!! Author: geepster
Former editor of many a fishing magazine, owner of Total-Fishing.com and MD of a pest control company!! Former editor of many a fishing magazine, owner of Total-Fishing.com and MD of a pest control company!! 
Angel of the North Fishery, March 8th
This week has seen some fantastic fishing fishing corn pellet or worm on the pole or waggler is seeing the best results catching carp ide and skimmers on lookout also on bowes fishing the same was is also producing good bags fishing up the channel on pellet or corn can result in a carp a […]
Phil’s 5lb 4oz river perch ‘ the fish of the season’
Anglers have hailed Phil Smith’s superb 5lb 4oz river perch as the fish of the season, from any venue. The mighty predator, thought to be the equal biggest of the species caught from a UK river, fell to the Coventry angler’s classic tactic of legered lobworm. Previously the biggest UK river perch mantle was held […]
Drop shotting at Woodland View
Strange goings on at Woodland View Fishery where anglers have been seen dangling curious jelly like offerings into the margins. But fret not, because the top Midlands match venue is experiencing some of the new drop shotting craze that’s sweeping the country. Drop shotting is a form of very light lure fishing, and is especially […]
Harrell: Pair up on river matches
Midlands match fishing ace Dave Harrell is touting a novel pairs idea that would see two anglers fishing from the same peg. Dave, the man behind the successful Riverfest series, believes it could encourage more pleasure anglers back onto running water. He said: “A lot of pleasure anglers don’t match fish because you are isolated […]
Crucian carp features on 2015 rod licence
The Environment Agency has unveiled its new design for this year’s rod licences. Designed by renowned angling and wildlife artist, David Miller, the new rod licences are now on sale. The image on this year’s coarse fishing rod licence is a crucian carp (Carassius carassius) and the non-coarse is a salmon (Salmo salar). Last year […]
12lb 10oz Rainbow Trout From Ravensthorpe
Superb start to the new season with Anglian Water • Richard’s 12lb 10oz Rainbow at RavensthorpeRichard Cooper lands best fish of Opening Weekend. • Great start to the new season at Pitsford – especially if your name is Gavin!Eleven year old Gavin Ferni catches his first ever trout.Gavin Layton lands eight fish for 17lb • […]
David Hall Passes Away
David Hall, founder and chairman of David Hall Publishing, has passed away. David died peacefully in his sleep after a short spell in hospital. He was diagnosed with cancer almost two years ago and had spent the past 12 months at home being cared for by his wife, Cherry. Throughout that period, David continued to take […]
World carp record for globetrotting British angler
Globetrotting British angler Wayne Metcalfe may have a new world record on his hands after landing this massive 172lb Siamese carp from the Jurassic Mountain Fishing Resort in Thailand. The Widnes man, who describes himself as a ‘nomadic angler’ and who travels the world fishing, played the mighty fish for nearly THREE HOURS after hooking […]
Tunnel Barn Farm March 3rd
RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 1st March 2015 Date: Monday 23rd February Pools: Canal pool OPEN No F/man: 16 Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO 1st John Stratford Young MG 54-10 20 2nd Pete Hancox Birmingham 50-9 3 3rd S Birch Northfield 47-8 22 4th Graham Young Youngs MG 33-11 18 […]
Jimmy Bullard wins at Stafford Moor
Former Premier League footballer Jimmy Bullard proved he’s no slouch in matches of another sort when winning the Silver Fish Festival at Devon’s Stafford Moor Fishery… an especially impressive achievement when you realise former World Match Fishing Champion Will Raison was among his rivals. Jamie totalled five points to take the trophy with relative ease, […]
Angel of the North Fishery March 1st
Best weights this week in the matches was 82lb 12oz on peg 24 Bowes it was an Interesting weeks catches with weather conditions fluctuating from –3 overnight to a balmy 5 deg overnight, lots of fish are being caught on a variety of methods fishing 6mm banded pellet on the bomb or feeder is working […]
Magnificent Chew Valley perch falls to Fox lure
WOW!!! This picture shows why so many predator anglers regard Somerset’s Chew Valley as the No1 destination in the UK… and not just for pike. The quite magnificent perch of 4lb 10oz is the fish of a lifetime for any perch angler and fell to the rod of local angler Mike Anderston, who was lure […]
Crime Hunter join the Angling Trust
The Angling Trust is delighted to announce that former Head of the police’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, Nevin Hunter, has become an Angling Trust Key Volunteer in its Enforcement Team. In this role Nevin will continue to support the Angling Trust’s multi-agency approach to fisheries enforcement and its encouragement of partnership working and intelligence-sharing, in […]
Buffalo boy lands junior carp record
No wonder fourteen year old Adam Szepesi is all smiles after getting the better of this 28.35kg (62lb 8oz) smallmouth buffalo carp (Ictiobus bubalus) while fishing Lake Fork, Texas, USA. Szepesi was fishing with local guide Austin Anderson, and needed 30 minutes to land the fish after it ate the corn he was using for […]
Much needed break for the bluefin tuna
Pic: Wiki The American National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has just released the Final Amendment 7 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan, which provides much needed protection for western Atlantic bluefin tuna. Most notably, new seasonal closures will protect western bluefin tuna when they are in the northern Gulf of Mexico—their only […]
