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!! 
30,000 Euros Prize Fund In The Donegal Treble Hook
Ireland’s ‘Mr Sea Angling’, Norman Dunlop, is the brains behind an innovative new multi discipline angling festival in the Donegal Bay area, with a chunky prize fund of over 30,000 Euros. Run in partnership with Donegal Angling Holidays, The Donegal Treble Hook will attract coarse, sea and game anglers, with the team catching the most […]
Over £5,000 Raised For RNLI At 2013 World Dab Champs
A huge turnout of 216 anglers braved horrendous conditions to compete in the World Dab Championships, fished on the beaches of Dungeness in Kent. This annual event is fished mainly to raise money for good causes, and it certainly did that, with a cheque for £5309 winging its way to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. […]
Clark Is The 25th Irish Shore Champ
England’s Chris Clark was top rod in the 25th Irish Shore Fishing Festival, walking away with a cheque for 1,000 euros following a perfect score of three zone wins. Fished at three different beach marks around Leinster, 60 competing anglers found mainly flounders, dabs, whiting, rockling and coal fish feeding in spurts at the start […]
North East England 2013 Angling Trust Kayak Competition
A new Kayak Championship is being organised in the north east of England under the expert guidance of angling journalist and broadcaster Sam Harris. Backed by Moonfleet Angling, which is putting up an angling kayak as the top prize, it’s a heaviest fish competition that will be fished over June 29th and 30th from launch […]
Whiting Beats 32-Year-Old British Record
How about this for a whiting? If you think it’s a monster you are right, in fact it’s the new British boat caught best after being ratified by the British record fish committee. The 7lb 6oz fish was caught using an Eddystone Eel by Mark Curtis off Plymouth and beats the old record, held since […]
Will Raison Shows Mild Manners In This Month’s Issue
Will Raison Shows Mild Manners In This Month’s Issue In the belief that there will finally be a break in these Arctic conditions, former world champ Will Raison shows how to approach match fishing in a mild winter spell in the latest issue of ‘Coarse & Match Fishing’. This latest instalment of ‘Will Raison’s Match Year’ […]
Angel Of The North Lakes February 2013
A mixed week of catches from good carp sessions to good silver sessions then if frosty overnight a struggle to catch more than a few good fish till later in day, water temp come up then the frosts bang it down again, it is fishing much better at dusk with some larger carp catching then. […]
Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery February 2013
RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEKS ENDING 10th February 2013 Date: Monday 4th February 2013Pools: Club PoolNo F/man: 16 1st Dave Chapman Coventry 58 – 5 132nd Pete Hancox Birmingham 36 – 11 113rd Graham Young Youngs TBF 36 – 8 14th Malcolm Jones Banbury Gunsmiths 26 –15 35th Steve Birch Northfield 21 – 14 126TH […]
Daiwa Hallcroft Fishery February 2013
Monday 4th February 2013 Daiwa Hallcrof VeteransBridge Outer Pool (8 Pegs) 1 G Hiley, Peg One Angling; peg 12; 21-2-0Strong cold winds made conditions far from ideal for this latest monday match. Geoff fished maggot and small pellet on groundbait feeder for 1 carp and 15lb of skimmers2 I Donaldson, Notts; peg 24; 14-14-0Ian waited […]
Great News for Recreational Sea Anglers
The Angling Trades Association (ATA) has warmly welcomed the momentous decision to outlaw the despised commercial practice of discarding healthy but unwanted marine fish back into the sea. Between one-quarter and one-third of the total catch quota of EU fishermen is estimated to be discarded, and this may rise as high as 90% of the […]
Zebco Pro Stow Box Revival
Rhino Pro Stow Box: storage marvel for spoons, wobblers and pirks! The Pro Stow Box is enjoying a revival at Zebco Europe – a successful part of the range a few years ago, the box is back on the market after a hiatus by popular demand! The original, sensational box allowed a whole collection of […]
Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery February 2013
RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEKS ENDING 3rd February 2013 Date: Monday 28th January 2013Pools: Extension PoolNo F/man: 18 1st C Constable TBF Vets 33 – 14 272nd Steve Birch Northfield 29 – 4 243rd B Edwards Youngs TBF 26 – 3 394th Dave Chapman Coventry 26 – 0 25th Tom Neil Rutlanders 23 – 1 […]
Winter League Practices At Makins
Makins Fishery is rearranging its open match schedule to facilitate practice for the forthcoming Angling Trust Winter League Semi Final at the end of February. The Thursday NISA Opens on the preceding weeks have been re-arranged; the 14th February match now taking place on Phase Two (Crater, Snake, Reptile, Little Reptile and Paddock) and the […]
New BAA Water At Fladbury
The Birmingham Anglers Association has purchased some new water at Fladbury on the Warwickshire Avon. The water is on the meadow on the right bank immediately downstream of Jubilee Bridge and connects to their existing water there. The plan is to provide vehicle access to this new stretch but for now you have to walk […]
Midlands Fishing Show 2013
The second year of the free-to-enter Midlands Fishing Show for coarse and carp anglers at the Ricoh in Coventry sees more manufacturers, more celebrities and more great show-only offers. If you were one of the nearly 9000 that came in 2012, you will already know what a great show and venue this is, so make sure […]
