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!! 
Irish Salmon Fishing: 94 Rivers Open For Salmon Angling in 2013
Mr Fergus O’Dowd T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, has approved a suite of regulations and bye-laws that will govern the wild salmon fishery in 2013. These will come into effect from Tuesday 1 January 2013. Minister O’Dowd said “Next year I am pleased to note 94 rivers […]
Fry Takes Barston Christmas Match With A Winter Record
Barston’s annual Christmas Match was won by the ever consistent Simon Fry. Simon, who finished as runner up in the 2012 UK champs, only losing out on weight, drew fancied peg 17 at the Solihull water, right where he wanted to be, and fished the Method at 70 yards for 116-10-0 made up of fifty […]
Daiwa Hallcroft Fishery December 2012
Monday 17th December 2012 Daiwa Hallcroft VeteransCroft (10 Pegs) 1 G Hiley, Peg One Angling; Peg 21; 18-9-0Geoff Hiley fished maggot and caster over groundbait at 13 from peg 21 for all skimmers and roach2 R Holmes, Notts AA; Peg 24; 6-0-0Roger also caught silvers but alternated between maggot and pellet for mainly skimmers to […]
Huge Yellowfin Tuna Could Be Biggest Ever
This massive yellowfin tuna caught off Mexico is probably the biggest ever landed on rod and line, but it can never be claimed as an IGFA All tackle World Record for the species. The mighty fish was landed by John Petruescu while fishing aboard ‘Excel’ nearly 1000 miles off San Diego and skipper Justin Fleck […]
Amazing Bird Catching Behaviour By Catfish
Scientists from the University of Toulouse have captured wels catfish sneaking up on pigeons washing themselves in France’s River Tarn, and beaching themselves to catch and eat them. They observed the amazing behaviour 45 times, 28% of which resulted in successful captures. Researchers have published their findings in the journal PLoS […]
Sherwood Forest Farm Fishery December 2012
Wednesday Fun League 12/12/12Holmedale Lake15 fished1st Mick Langton Sherwood Forest Fishery Peg 50, 13-4-02nd Pete Ellis Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 18, 5-8-03rd Geoff Mawby Gateford Angling Supplies peg 36, 4-6-04th Andy Lakey Worksop Angling peg 49, 3-15-05th Pete Hodgetts Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 33, 3-7-0 Fishing through holes in the ice after a minus 5 frost […]
Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery December 2012
POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 16th December 2012 With the cold weather moving in the fish are still feeding with pleasure anglers reporting excellent catches including f1’s, common carp, mirrors, barbel, roach and skimmers. TBF opens and matches this week have been won with bags in excess of 115lbs. Top PoolPellet to the islands […]
Moorlands Farm Fishery December 2012
Tuesday 11.12.12 – Super Cost-Cutter10 fished on Middle1st Cliver Wright (Mosella) 46.1.0 Peg 52nd Dave Bartlett (Moorlands) 24.12.0 Peg 103rd Paul Little (Moorlands) 15.11.0 Peg 2 Wednesday 12.12.12 – Over 50’s15 fished Rover all pools1st Mal Watson (DGL) 46.10.0 Peg 37 Meadow2nd Dave Williams (Halesowen BL) 32.4.0 Peg 30 Meadow3rd Martin Lefevre (Moorlands Gold) 23.6.0 […]
Daiwa Hallcroft Fishery December 2012
Monday 10th December 2012 Daiwa Hallcroft VeteransBridge Pool (12 Pegs)1 J Hobson, Sheffield, Peg Outer 6; 49-14-0With ice on the lakes and aerators on fishing was far from ideal for this veterans match. However Jack Hobson found some carp willing to take his hairrigged corn on bomb tactics2 R Brooks, Sheffield, Peg Island 26; 12-14-0Ron […]
Will Raison Joins Old Ghost
Old Ghost are honored and pleased to announce that well know and respected international match angler and Individual World Champion plus 5 x Team World Champion, Will Raison, has joined Old Ghost as a sponsored angler. On the 14th December a sponsorship contract was signed between Will and Jim Burton, Marketing and Sales Director of […]
Minister Acts to Save Salmon in North Sea
The Angling Trust has warmly welcomed the decision by the UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon MP to reduce significantly the netting of salmon and sea trout off the North East Coast. Fisheries charities and the Angling Trust have campaigned for many years for the removal of these nets because they take fish returning to a […]
Big perch procession
At the start of December, Quantum Specialist team angler Fredrik Harbort and his fishing partner Sascha Cervenjak enjoyed a perch session that could not have been much more successful. In just three short afternoon sessions at a marina in northern Germany, the pair landed more big perch than they ever would have thought possible in […]
‘Chalkstream Charter’ to follow Hampshire Summit
Over 100 of the top figures in English fly-fishing packed into a special summit called to discuss the plight of our chalkstreams at the Grosvenor Hotel in Stockbridge this week.Of these unique rivers, 85% are situated in England and most of these are in the South with the most famous being the Test, Itchen and […]
Shelf Life With Will Raison: Free To View
Will Raison is at Gold Valley Fishery this month and as ever is dealing with techniques that anglers need to be up to speed with right now, in his regular ‘Will Raison’s Match Year’ video feature for Coarse & Match Fishing. At this time of year water clarity and falling temperatures mean that fish on […]
Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery December 2012
POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9th December 2012 With the cold weather moving in the fish are still feeding with pleasure anglers reporting excellent catches including f1’s, common carp, mirrors, barbel, roach and skimmers. TBF opens and matches this week have been won with bags in excess of 115lbs. Top PoolPellet to the islands […]
