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!! 
Fish The Magnificent Severn
If you dream of catching a double-figure barbel or a 20lb zander, a forthcoming Severn Rivers Trust event entitled ‘Fish The Magnificent Severn’ in Worcester could set you on the right track, when some of the country’s top river anglers will be giving an intensive course on how to fish the magnificent Severn. Among the […]
Six new venues added to Riverfest 2015
Six new venues, twelve more places in the final, a bigger prize pot and a new ‘teams of three’ competition are the big changes to this year’s RiverFest competition. The Angling Trust has been working closely with competition creator Dave Harrell to grow the popular event still further, starting with more qualifying venues. These include, […]
Tunnel Barn Farm January 27th
RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 25th JANUARY 2015 Date: Monday 19TH January Pools: New pool OPEN No F/man: 15 Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO 1st Dave James Mosella 51-2 13 2nd Jamie Jones Maver 48-12 1 3rd Wayne Sweetman TBF 26-7 7 4th M Richards Maver 23-9 44 5th C Chamberlain […]
Anglers Celebrate As EU Bans Trawling For Bass
Trawling for bass during the spawning period has been banned in a historic set of emergency measures aimed at averting a total collapse of Europe’s bass stocks. The ban on pelagic trawling – which accounts for 25 per cent of the impact on the stock and includes the controversial method of pair trawling – will […]
Angling Trust Launches A New Fund For Fishery Improvements
The Angling Trust is delighted to launch a new ‘Fishery Improvement Fund’. The funding comes from the Environment Agency from some of the proceeds of rod licence sales. The £65,000 Fund will make awards of up to £5,000 to eligible organisations for buying equipment, to make habitat improvements or for projects that get people fishing […]
Packington Somers 26th January
FISHING & MATCH REPORT – WEEK ENDING 25/1/15 MATCH RESULTS STARLETS VETS (LITTLE GEARYS) 1. Ron Savage (Lanes Bait) 10 – 8 Peg 15 Skimmers on Pole & Pinkies 2. Pat Clark (Lime Tree Social) 7 -12 3. Phill Hull (Lanes Bait) 4 – 3 WEDNESDAY OPEN (MOLANDS) 1. Danny […]
Daiwa Hallcroft Fishery 26th January
25th January 2015 Daiwa Hallcroft open Moat (27 Pegs) S Clark, Mansfield Island 70 50-5-0 Steve Clark blitzed this Sunday field with 50lb of carp. Fishing maggot, pellet and corn in conjunction with a small feeder was Steves winning tactics M edgecombe, Doncaster Outer 6 25-12-0 Mal Edgecombe fished feeder with banded 6mm pellet for […]
Angel of the North Fishery Jan 26th
Frozen lakes all week with only a handful of pegs free but if you stick it out there is still good nets of roach and skimmers to be caught on waggler fished maggot on look out ide are feeding well on corn with micros Sunday 25th January open Lookout Conditions : partly cloudy ambient temp […]
UK Match Fishing Championships 2015
The UK Angling Championship is the oldest of the ‘Big Three’ fishing tournaments, and is regarded as the most prestigious to win, going back to 1984, some of the finest match anglers in the country have won this event. This year’s dates have now been released. The venues are the same as last year, and […]
Crucian Carp Project Video Goes Live
The National Crucian Carp Project has this week launched a new information video aimed at encouraging angling and fishery interests to embrace crucian conservation and draw up plans for more crucian waters in their areas. The video is also part of a new episode of the Fishing Britain series produced by the YouTube channel FieldsportsChannel.tv […]
Angler doubles world guitar fish record with 275lb giant
Not many anglers can ever have more than DOUBLED a world record in fishing, but that’s exactly what Dean Reddy might be claiming after landing two Giant Guitarfish from the South African shoreline. Dean, who measures all his catches using a tried and tested formula before tagging and returning them, was fishing in Kwazulu Natal […]
33lb cod caught just off South Wales
South Wales is the place to be for big cod at the moment, as illustrated by the capture of this 33lb fish from just outside Porthcawl Harbour. The fish was taken by Nick Beale from a private boat. Neal was fishing lugworm, but suspects he probably hooked a whiting which was then snaffled by the […]
Packington Somers January 19th
PACKINGTON SOMERS FISHERY Telephone: 01676 523833 FISHING & MATCH REPORT – WEEK ENDING 18/1/15 MATCH RESULTS STARLETS VETS (GRATUITIES/WILLOW/LITTLE GEARYS/REEDY BAY) 1. Ron Savage (Lanes Bait) 49 – 6 Peg 16 GRATUITIES Carp & Skimmers on Pole & Maggot 2. Colin West (Tornadoes AC) 35 – 8 3. Roy […]
Tunnel Barn Farm January 19th
RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 18th JANUARY 2015 Date: Tuesday 13TH January Pools: Extension pool TBF VETS & over 50’s No F/man: 20 Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO 1st Jim Wills TBF 39-15 9 2nd Barry Duggan Warwick Portabello 38-14 7 3rd Chris Constable TBF Vets 35-2 19 4th Pete Hancox […]
Daiwa Hallcroft Fishery 19th January
18th January 2015 Daiwa Hallcroft Teams of 4 Silverfish League – Rnd 6 Moat/Bridge/Croft – 52 Pegs S Cameron, Kelly’s Store Croft 25 26-12-0 For the second round in a row, anglers were greeted with the lakes covered in ice and the boat was put into use to clear the pegs to fish. Sean Cameron fished […]
