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 Lakes July 2013
Another fantastic week of high catch rates with some anglers catching over 300lb on an evening session between 4 to 8pm for example Mal Gardner caught 56 carp between 4lb smallest to to 2 double figures one 10lb and one 14lb, 2 roach between ¾ to 1 ½ lb, 2 ide 3lb ½, 1 good […]
Sherwood Forest Farm Fishery July 2013
Wednesday Summer Fun League 17/7/13Holmedale Lake23 fished1st Kristian Powers Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 56, 120-8-02nd Steve Barraclough Frenzie Bait peg 45, 116-10-03rd Martyn Brown Eastwood Angling Centre peg 4, 90-12-04th Andy Lakey Worksop Angling peg 36, 83-2-05th Steve Keyworth Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 21, 67-15-06th Matt Malia Wickersley Angling peg 9, 63-1-0Kristian drew the end […]
Daiwa Hallcfort Fishery July 2013
Sunday, 21st July 2013 Daiwa Hallcroft Open MatchMoat/Canal Pool.P Elliott, MAP Leegem Canal 2 146-2-0A great day’s fishing was capped off with the bonus of £1000 Link Peg as Paul Elliott won from peg 2 on Canal. Paul fished paste on the pole at 12m to catch mainly small carp in his winning net. S […]
Angling Trust Team Hails Breakthrough Over Cormorant Problem
Anglers and fishery managers have today welcomed the decision by the Natural Environment and Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon to replace the current bureaucratic and wholly inadequate system of licensing the control of cormorants with a new catchment-based approach which will allow for predator control based on local needs rather than arbitrary national limits. The […]
Mako Shark Caught Off Wales Makes BBC News
A mako shark caught off Pembrokeshire in Wales is believed to be the first of the species caught by an angler fishing around the British coastline for over 40 years. The two-metre-long fish, weighing around 200lb and reported by the BBC, was caught by Andy Griffith who was fishing aboard Andrew Alsop’s charter boat ‘White […]
Saving The Seabed May Not Cost The Earth After All
A government decision to slash 75 per cent of a proposed network of marine conservation zones (MCZs) intended to save seabeds and estuaries in England from being damaged by commercial and recreational activities, has been criticised by professional fishery managers. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is proposing to go ahead with […]
White Acres Fishery July 2013
THURSDAY’S MARUKYU RESIDENTS ROVER MATCH18th JULY 2013 63 ANGLERS FISHED ALL WATERS 1st SAM KELK 142lb 05oz KINKEY PELLET CLUB Peg 16 Canal Pellet on the short pole 2nd ROY SHEARS 136lb 13oz TOWN LEAGUE Peg 17 Twin Oaks Short pole with paste 3rd ANDY HAVENHAND 127lb 05oz PRINCESS ROYAL Peg 5 Twin Oaks Bomb […]
Angling Trust & Canal & River Stillwater Qualifier
49 anglers contested in this latest qualifier at the prolific Boddington Reservoir on 17th July 2013 in the fourth qualifier of the Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Stillwater Qualifiers for 2013. The blistering heat and often totally still conditions were always going to make things difficult.The huge shoals of sizeable carp for which […]
Daiwa at ICAST 2013 – introducing the new Daiwa Tatula
The world’s largest sportfishing trade show was held last week, hosting 9,500 members of the global sportfishing industry in LA to showcase the latest innovations in fishing gear, accessories and apparel. Needless to say, it’s a spectacle of some proportion and it would take far longer than the allocated three days to comb through every […]
Biddle Bags Stuart Spence Memorial – Just!
The Stuart Spence Memorial on the Perdiswell stretch of the Birmingham-Worcester Canal attracted a good turnout and the fishing wasn’t bad either with everyone catching and the majority weighing in over 6lb. Stuart, who passed away last year, was one of the characters on the local match scene and was known for always fishing in […]
Browning Quaker Net The Winning Team Title in The Angling Trust Winter League Final
With temperatures up in the high twenties, a low and gin clear River Trent at Besthorpe, South Clifton, North Clifton and Laughterton, and conditions no-one wanted greeted the 12 teams of 10 anglers that had qualified for this, the Final of the Angling Trust Winter League series on Saturday 6th July 2013. Much had been […]
Fosters To Build New Fisheries Where You Can Try Before You Buy
Birmingham fishing tackle outlet Fosters of Birmingham is planning a series of new day ticket lakes which will include tackle shops on site, offering anglers the chance to ‘try before they buy’ when it comes to major tackle purchases. Bosses are looking at two sites on the outskirts of the city which will include match […]
Lord Percy Lands Huge Salmon
The Duke of Northumberland’s brother, Lord James Percy has landed a 46lb 3oz Salmon while fishing on the River Alta in Norway. Lord James landed the fish of a lifetime using a Hardy Zenith 14′ 6″ #9 rod, Fortuna X2 Reel and Mach Spey line.
Rutland Water Brown Trout Record Smashed!
Rutland Water’s 20-year-old brown trout record has been smashed with this magnificent 17lb 6oz 4dr fish caught by Empingham angler Tom Cooper. Tom was sharing a boat with his elder brother Richard and the pair ventured up the North Arm. The excitement built for Tom as the giant fish followed his top dropper to the […]
Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery July 2013
RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEKS ENDING 14th July 2013 Date: Monday 8th July 2013 OPENPools: High PoolNo F/man: 30 1st Dave Chapman Coventry 80 – 1 342nd Rob Round Maver Solihull 79 – 6 303rd Derek Martin Baileys of Warwick 75 – 13 184th Pete Hancox Birmingham 69 – 3 455th Chris Constable TBF Vets […]
