Author: geepster

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

Money Raised For Tweed Foundation

Pic Caption: Photograph enclosed Nick Yonge, Director, Tweed Foundation and Mark Cockburn CEO FishPal.  FishTweed were delighted to hand over a cheque for £3,000 to Nick Yonge, Director at the Tweed Foundation, on Friday 7th February 2014.  The money was raised through anglers giving donations when making bookings on the FishTweed site and will be […]

Moorlands Farm Fishery February 2014

Tuesday 04.02.14 – Super Cost-Cutter18 fished on Silver1st Pete Trueman (CPA) 44.0.0 Peg 342nd Pete Hodge (CPA) 41.8.0 Peg 403rd Clive Wright (Mosella/ABC) 40.0.0 Peg 26 Wednesday 05.02.14 – Over 50’s12 fished Rover all pools1st Dave Williams (Halesowen BL) 70.2.0 Peg 12 Moors2nd Richard Kings (CPA) 41.8.0 Peg 23 Silver3rd Ray Phillips (CPA) 15.8.0 Peg […]

Sherwood Forest Farm February 2014

Open MatchHolmedale Lake Sunday 9/2/14 17 fished  1st Nigel Shipman Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 35, 73-7-02nd Danny Crewe Subfish, peg 39, 62-3-03rd Brian Elliott Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 19, 47-0-04th Pete Hodgetts Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 45, 40-9-05th Phil Carline Subfish tackle peg 14, 32-7-06th Lee Placket Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 9, 25-5-0 The wind spoilt the […]

Sherwood Forest Farm February 2014

Open MatchHolmedale Lake Sunday 9/2/14 17 fished  1st Nigel Shipman Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 35, 73-7-02nd Danny Crewe Subfish, peg 39, 62-3-03rd Brian Elliott Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 19, 47-0-04th Pete Hodgetts Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 45, 40-9-05th Phil Carline Subfish tackle peg 14, 32-7-06th Lee Placket Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 9, 25-5-0 The wind spoilt the […]

Daiwa Hallcroft February 2014

9th February 2014 Daiwa Hallcroft Silverfish League Moat/Bridge Island – 32 pegsD Hiley (Peg 1 angling) Bridge Isl 13 29-6-0The silverfish league continues to produce some impressive weights. Dave Hiley won the latest round with 29lb of skimmers. Dave fished caster, pellet and maggot on long and short pole for skimmers to 2lbB Holmes (Matrix Trentmen) […]

Des Taylor Big River Chub Fishing

Big fish ace Des Taylor is the star turn in the new issue of ‘Coarse & Match Fishing’, which is live and free to view online, on mobile, on tablet, and on Samsung and Panasonic Smart TV under the Fishing TV app. Des is on his favourite river, the Severn at Hampton Loade, as he […]

A Tenner Says I Weigh In More Than You Today!

A new ‘social’ betting platform will allow anglers to easily set up side bets with fishing mates, either with virtual currency or with real money. TedBets.com, which is free to join, allows you send a text before a fishing match or session, throwing down a challenge to your angling mates. You can effectively make any […]

Foster Rocks World Carp Record

Fosters Of Birmingham tackle shop boss Richard Foster came close to claiming the world’s biggest ever carp capture when he out-battled this 130lb Siamese carp at Gillhams Fishing Resort in Thailand.  The destination near Krabi already holds the record with Keith Williams’ 134lb 7oz capture in October 2013 (https://www.total-fishing.com/fishing-news/world-record-siamese-carp-birthday-boy-keith ), and owner Stu Gillham confirmed […]