Author: geepster

Former editor of many a fishing magazine, owner of Total-Fishing.com and MD of a pest control company!!

Drennan Barnsley Blacks add Stillwater Team Champs to their titles

ANGLING TRUST STILLWATER TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 Saturday saw 18 teams line up for the second Stillwater Team Championships sponsored by Garbolino/Lindholme Fishery.  There were five sections each on Cudmore and Heronbrook fisheries. At the draw captains were slightly apprehensive about how either venue would fish since there had been an overnight drop in temperature down […]

Sherwood Forest Fishery August 17th

  Wednesday Open 13/8/14 Holmedale Lake 18 fished   1st Daz Staley Subfish peg 14, 279-12-0 2nd Andy Lakey Worksop Angling Supplies peg 17, 213-3-0 3rd Nigel Shipman Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 20, 170-7-0 4th Pete Hodgetts Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 21, 163-6-0 5th Mick Langton Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 39, 151-15-0 6th Lee Hendly […]

White Acres Residents Matches August 14th

THURSDAY’S PRESTON INNOVATIONS     RESIDENTS ROVER MATCH 14th AUGUST 2014   60 ANGLERS FISHED ALL WATERS   1st  STEVE TAYLOR                             197lb 06oz  CROWN TACKLE & BAIT Peg 10 Twin Oaks           Pellet feeder & margins with pellet   2nd  MITCH RILEY                                159lb 11oz          DYNAMITE / MATCHMAN SUPPLIE Peg 4 Twin Oaks                                          Margins & […]

Spud Murphy Into Riverfest Final

Remnants of  Hurricane Bertha hitting the UK with torrential rain backed by 40 mph wind could not dampen the enthusiasm of the 57 anglers that lined the banks of the River Soar at Sutton Bonnington for the eighth Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier of the year, held on Sunday 10th August. On a nicely rising river […]

White Acres Match Results August 14th

11th AUGUST 2014    30 ANGLERS FISHED TWIN OAKS & ACORN   1st    JOHN STEPTON                                                       204lb 11oz      SENSAS SOUTH EAST Peg 15 Twin Oaks            Pellet feeder   2nd   ANDY TURNER                                                                        187lb 02oz              ALFRETON ANGLING Peg 14 Twin Oaks     Pellet feeder   3rd   SIMON WATSON                                                    173lb 06oz             SUMMERHAYES Peg 11 Twin […]

Moorlands Farm August 11th

Tuesday 05.08.14 Super Cost Cutter21 Fished Meadow1st Geoff Darlow (Redstone Caravan Park) 102.06.00 Peg 542nd Bill Rathbone (St Francis) 82.04.00 Peg 113rd Syd (Julian (Moorlands) 56.08.00 Peg 57 Wednesday 06.08.14 Over 50,s22 fished Silver1st Paul Bailey (Moorlands) 98.10.00 Peg 022nd Tony Attwood (fosters) 82.14.00 Peg 043rd Mal Watson (DGL) 80.08.00 Peg 16 Thursday 07.08.14 Cost […]

Hardwick wins 2014 Barston Bowl

Eighty fished the sell out 2014 Barston Bowl, which produced two ton up weights at the in form Solihull fishery. The match had a later draw time of 11am with fishing 1pm to 6pm and this improved the fishing. Mick Bull was the first to put a big weight on the scales, and everyone assumed […]

Tunnel Barn Farm August 10th

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEKS ENDING 10th August 2014Date:  Monday 4th August  2014 OPENPools: Canal PoolNo F/Man: 15Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Pete  Caton Banbury Gunsmiths / Drennan 179 – 9 72nd Pete Rice Bagem Baits 171– 2 213rd D Lutwyche Hawkesbury 155 – 5 34th Pete Hancox Birmingham 135 – 5 195th Alex […]

Barnsley & District AA crowned Angling Trust Division 1 National Champions 2014

Forty two teams (420 competitors) fished the River Trent on various sections of the river from the non-tidal section downstream of Nottingham to the tidal section upstream of Torksey in the Angling Trust Division 1 National Championship on Saturday 9th August 2014. Weather conditions were far from ideal, with bright sunshine and blustery winds generally […]

Packington Somers August 10th

PACKINGTON SOMERS FISHERY Telephone: 01676 523833 FISHING & MATCH REPORT – WEEK ENDING 10/8/14   MATCH RESULTS STARLETS VETS                         (MOLANDS & WILLOW) 1.  Brian Overton (Packington Vets)            78 – 8                Peg 46     MOLANDS      Carp & F1’s on Pellet Feeder 2.  Dave Atkins (Ridgemere AC)                   68 – 9 3.  Ray Quiney (Packington)                          61 […]

Big weights at Sherwood Forest Fishery

Wednesday Open 6/8/14 Holmedale Lake 19 fished   1st Nigel Shipman Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 14, 193-12-0 2nd Martyn Brown Eastwood Angling peg 24,179-4-0 3rd Andy Lakey Worksop Angling Supplies peg 28, 152-5-0 4th Bob Green Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 36, 101-11-0 5th Karl Wilson Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 39, 100-1-0 6th Craig Radford Woodhouse […]