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!! 
Good Roach Fishing On The Newry Canal
A hard overnight frost and a reduced water level in the Albert Basin didn’t bode well for the Anglers assembled outside the Quays on Sunday morning. Some of the gathering looked decidedly worried as they presented their licences for the Loughs Agency Fishery Officers to inspect. With some men travelling from as far away as Newtownabbey […]
Fishing for Life Strategy launched
A strategy to get more people fishing and help projects that use fishing to provide support to people in need was launched at the Angling Summit in London. The new strategy, Fishing for Life, was launched by Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon to encourage more people to try angling. The Environment Agency and Angling Trust developed […]
Chapman At The Treble
Dave Chapman has had a week to remember at Tunnel Barn Fishery. The White Hart rod won Monday’s open match on Club Pool with 76-10-0 of carp and F1s on pole and pellet, fishing three lines at six, eight and ten metres. He then followed up in the Tuesday Over 50s event, fishing the same […]
Ladies No Longer First At Birmingham Anglers Association
Some equality that perhaps won’t be welcomed by the fairer sex is the Birmingham Anglers Association’s decision for abolish their Ladies Membership. The move is a direct result of a European Union Directive, that makes it illegal for clubs and associations to discriminate on the grounds of gender. Ladies from 17 to 65 years of […]
Harrell’s Triumphs In Hereford Festival
Dave Harrell once again proved his river fishing prowess by winning the Shakespeare sponsored Hereford Angling Festival. Despite low and clear conditions for this sell-out three-day event, there were plenty of good weights, especially from the pegs in the 80s on the right bank. The area produced the day one winner in the shape of […]
Packington Somers Fishery November 2012
FISHING REPORT – WEEK ENDING 11/11/12Last week 89 rods caught 243 fish for an average of 2.73. The best fish of the week was an 11lb 9oz rainbow caught by Bob Tench of Shustoke who was fishing from the bank on Cocks Close and he caught it on a […]
Packington Somers Fishery November 2012
FISHING & MATCH REPORT – WEEK ENDING 11/11/12MATCH RESULTSSTARLETS VETS (GEARYS & LITTLE GEARYS)1. Derek Davies (Lanes Bait) 31 – 7 Peg 10 LITTLE GEARYS F1’s on Pole & Pellet 2. Norman Davies (Packington) 19 – 93. Ron Savage (Lanes Bait) 17 – 9 4. Dave Wood (Lanes Bait) 17 […]
Youngster Banks Massive Ebro Albino
Will Sudders has banked what may be the biggest albino catfish ever landed by a teenager on Spain’s River Ebro, at a massive 175lb. At 7ft 10in long, the monster was a full three feet longer than the 13-year-old from Colchester in Essex. It came during a week when fishing was ‘quite slow’ with the water […]
Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery November 2012
POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 11th November 2012 With the temperature dropping in the day and at night now, the fish are still feeding well 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 140lbs. Top […]
Moorlands Farm Fishery November 2012
Tuesday 06.11.12 – Super Cost-Cutter17 fished on Bank & Moors1st Roger Hinton (CPA) 29.3.0 Peg 5 Moors2nd Ray Phillips (Moorlands) 25.12.0 Peg 19 Bank3rd Dave Bartlett (Solhampton) 24.4.0 Peg 25 Bank Wednesday 07.11.12 – Over 50’s20 fished on Meadow1st Dave Williams (Halesowen BL) 73.10.0 Peg 562nd Mal Watson (DGL) 66.14.0 Peg 403rd Ken Sherriff (Kidderminster […]
Daiwa Hallcroft Fishery November 2012
Monday 5th November 2012 Daiwa Hallcroft Veterans Bridge Pool (16 Pegs)1 M Cordall, Newcastle, Peg Island 24; 40-12-0A strong cold northerly wind put pay to any large weights in this monday vets open. Mark Cordall of Retford led the way with 40lb from island peg 24. Mark fished pellet feeder with hair riggd corn for […]
Darryl Moore wins the Angling Trust British Pike Final Championship
This year saw an increase of competitors taking part in the Angling Trust British Pike Final on the 20 Foot River, and Glassmoor Bank on Whittlesey AA’s waters with a total of 225 entrants. Difficult weather conditions greeted the competitors with an overnight frost, and rain settling in for most of the morning of […]
Patching Pond Raid: FREE TO VIEW
The latest issue of The Carp Channel includes a brand new episode of Chilly On Carp, in which Ian Chillcott uses all his senses to catch cool-water carp on a lake stocked by Donald Leney in the early 1960s. This time our ace is on Patching Pond in Sussex, England, one of the oldest man-made […]
Just For The Halibut: FREE TO VIEW
The latest issue of Sea Watch – the video magazine for shore and boat anglers – sees Dean Macey spending the night of the summer solstice fishing off Norway with angling journalist Dave Barham and fishing tour operator Ian Peacock. They head out after 10pm in broad daylight in the hands of a local skipper […]
Monster Carp For Former Match Star.
Match angler turned carp man Craig White has banked the sought after ‘Half Lin mirror from Vinnetrow Lake in Chichester at a whopping 54lb 8oz, smashing his personal best by over 13lb. Craig used to fish for top match outfit Daiwa Dorking and represented Drennan Team England Youth, winning a bronze medal in Portugal in […]
