Author: geepster

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

Strong Numbers For Total-Fishing.com

Angling website Total-Fishing.com has posted its second highest ever set of traffic figures, recording over 58,000 monthly unique users in the month of June 2014.  Industry standard statistics from Google Analytics show that 58,605 unique visitors visited the website between May 31st and June 30th 2014 – less than 2,000 off the best ever figures […]

National Junior Championships 2014: Report

This year’s Angling Trust Cadets, Juniors and Intermediates National Championship was held at Makins Fishery, Nuneaton, Warwickshire on Saturday 28th June.  The weather on the day was very unsettled for all the competitors taking part with showers set in for most of the day. Nearly 200 young anglers between the ages of 10 and 22 […]

Sharks: No Limits? No Future!

Pic: Wiki Shark Trust Patron and wildlife presenter Steve Backshall and UK Fisheries Minister George Eustice will be presenting their views on uncontrolled shark fisheries today at a series of Shark Trust No Limits? campaign events – part of SEA LIFE London Aquarium’s annual Ocean of Stars. Shark fishing is big business in Europe, with […]

Angler’s Mail July 1st

Angler’s Mail, July 1 issue Inside the latest issue of Angler’s Mail magazine – on-sale from Tuesday – you can learn all about what makes Preston Innovations Matchman of the Year champ Andy Bennett a winner on the competition circuit. He stars in an Action Replay feature and gives a master class on commercial bagging […]

Drennan England Storm Back To Win 2014 European Gold

Drennan Team England. (Top L-R) Will Raison, Simon Willsmore, Lee Kerry, Sean Ashby, Mark Downes. (Bottom L-R) Alan Scotthorne, Mark Addy, Callum Dicks. Pic: www.drennantackle.com Drennan Team England have man­aged to win the European Championship after a nail biting last hour on the Hensies-Pommeroeul Canal in Belgium. Twenty-four teams com­peted on a tough venue dom­in­ated […]

Hallcroft Fishery June 30th

29th June 2014 Sunday Open Match Moat Island/Bridge Outer – 46 pegs M Stainsby, Barnsley Bait Co. Bridge Out 36 91-8-0 Another close match today with plenty of angler sin wth a shout. Mark Stainsby produced a great result from aa average area on Bridge. Mark caught caught using meat and corn to both margins […]

Ringstead Grange Trout Form

Ringstead has fished even better this last week due to the weed cutting and lifting and the cooler weather. Good reports on how the weed has been managed. Local Angler, Matt Skinner from Hargrave had a beauty weighing in at 6lb. Phil Wilmott from Northampton had a limit of 21/2 lb ers. Barry Hall from […]

Evesham Qualifiers June 28th/29th

Evesham Festival Qualifying Match Report. Evesham Championship Qualifier. Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 61  Fished.   1 Richie Reynolds (Maver Bait-Tech) 10-14-0 (peg 43) 2 Tom Scholey (Pole Fishing Magazine) 7-15-0 (peg 6) 3 Matt Woods 6-3-0 (peg 85) 4 Ian Sutherland 5-13-0 (peg 68) 5 Anthony Taylor 5-6-0 (peg 18)   Qualifiers: Tom Scholey […]

Sherwood Forest Fishery June 30th

Wednesday Open 25/6/14 Holmedale Lake 24 fished   1st Daz Staley Subfish peg 4, 143-7-0 2nd Ian Rowney Mansfield Piscatorial AS peg 39,134-5-0 3rd Greg Cooper Dynamite Matrix Trentman peg 14, 117-12-0 4th Andy Lakey Worksop Angling Supplies peg 9, 110-0-0 5th Nigel Shipman Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 45, 105-10-0 6th Martyn Brown Eastwood Angling […]

ASSO Fluorocasting Fluorocarbon Mainline

Fluorocarbon continues to grow in popularity among carp anglers for a mainline choice, due to a number of qualities including low-stretch, low-visibility and strong abrasion resistance. ASSO FluoroCasting Fluorocarbon offers all of this and more and is available now in the UK for the first time. Made using a high-grade fluorocarbon which ASSO says has […]

ASSO Tetramax Fishing Line

ASSO line may not be that familiar to many UK carpers, but it’s sold in over 80 countries and is a popular choice among big carp anglers in Europe. Made from a high grade co-polymer with a fluorocarbon coating, this light brown line offers many features, and it’s now available over here. One of its […]

Angel of the North Fishery June 29th

Cracking fishing right at your feet with carp being caught on cubes of meat, multiple maggot,  paste, pellet, and worm, in large numbers, with silvers on maggot, pellet, worm, sweetcorn, caster . Feed pellet, maggot, chopped worm, groundbait, hemp, caster. Brian May from Wolverhampton fished the after work sessions on 3 days this week and […]

Big Bad Thames Bream

Tony Curd got the river season off to an absolute flyer with this fantastic catch of big bream from the River Thames. Tony got to Teddington very early and fished the last bit of the non-tidal river upstream of the weir using groundbait feeder tactics for 40 slabs in just four hours, with the biggest […]