Author: geepster

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

Following In The Footsteps Of Mr Crabtree

John Bailey presents a brand new angling TV series based on the iconic comic strip Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing, which begins broadcast on Quest on January 24th. The original Mr. Crabtree goes Fishing is the comic strip story of a father who takes his son Peter on a series of angling adventures over the course […]

Sherwood Forest Farm Fishery January 2013

Wednesday Fun League 9/1/13Holmedale Lake16 fished1st Jon Turton Boundry AC peg 17, 31-5-02nd Pete Hodgetts Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 14, 19-7-03rd Mick Langton Sherwood Forest Fishery Peg 33, 19-0-04th Geoff Mawby Gateford Angling Supplies peg 39, 11-10-0A very cold start to the match with the first white over frost greeting the anglers this morning.Jon drew […]

Moorlands Farm Fishery January 2013

Tuesday 08.01.13 – Super Cost-Cutter15 fished on Silver1st Dave Williams (Halesowen BL) 55.0.0 Peg 402nd George Reynolds (Kings) 52.14.0 Peg 53rd Iwan Mills (Robin’s Timber) 50.8.0 Peg 25 Wednesday 09.01.13 – Over 50’s21 fished on Bank, Moors & Island1st Mal Watson (DGL) 84.5.0 Peg 24 Bank2nd Iwan Mills (Robin’s Timber) 78.0.0 Peg 12 Island`Thursday 10.01.13 […]

Severn Barrage could be “devastating”

A Proposal to build a barrage across the Severn Estuary could be ‘absolutely devastating’, MPs have heard.The Angling Trust, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) and RSPB told the House of Commons Energy & Climate Committee they all supported tidal energy development in the Severn, but that the current proposal lacks detail and claims that it […]

Kevin Nash Book Wows Total Carp Editor

The long awaited memoirs of carp fishing legend Kevin Nash have recently hit the shelves –and are already proving popular among punters in the UK and beyond. Total Carp magazine Editor, Marc Coulson was one of the first people to get his hands on it, and explained: “Kevin is quite simply a living legend within […]

Nash names ‘Mossy’ carp

Still on the subject of Nashy, Kevin has named one of the new fish stocked into his Church Lake ‘Mossy’, as a tribute to keen carp angler, David Moss, who was just 16 when found dead at Moreton Fisheries in Lancashire after suffering what is thought to be a massive heart attack.  His tragic death […]

Spooky Jerk on course for success

For years, the Quantum Specialist range has included first-class Yuwaku wobblers but a genuine jerkbait has been missing. So the developers were happy to finally satisfy the demands of the test anglers. Principal test anglers for specimen pike, Frederik Harbort and Lars Vormelker, had always been particularly vociferous in demanding such a lure. The Spooky […]