A very low river Tyne with bright sunshine made for tough conditions for the thirty five anglers taking part in the seventh round of Riverfest Qualification. Nicky Jose of Tricast Woodlands crushed the opposition in A Section. Nicky caught 23lb 11oz of dace on the pole at 9 and 11 meters with maggot over groundbait […]

The River Don hosted Riverfest’s sixth round and although the river was fining down and rather clear, anglers at the draw still fancied a few fish from A-sections’ ‘Earth Centre’ and so this certainly proved to be! It was the top of A section that saw a right ding dong battle between Fred Prudham peg […]

The River Trent was running at seasonal level for this qualifier and with cloud cover and early morning rain, bream weights were expected to dominate the proceedings in at least two of the zones. The match was won at downstream end peg 60 by Stuart Gray who plundered a shoal of bream and skimmers on […]

Fifty-five anglers lined up along the roadside stretch of the North Bank of the River Nene. Hot and still conditions made the fishing tricky and the stretches resident bream were finicky. Gavin Butler was the runaway winner in the match with 19lb 10oz of bream on the feeder, from an early peg in zone A. […]

The River Weaver always seems to fish well for bream when there’s colour in the water and this match was no exception! Making full use of a favoured end peg draw, Welsh International Lee Edwards made no mistakes and ran out victor at his first attempt this year. His weight of 37lb 3oz mostly bream […]