Author: geepster

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

Shatterford Lakes April 2012

Vicki Davies from Worcester shocked several regular Cat anglers yesterday (1.4.12) by landing a massive 68lb beauty on Peg 15 on Masters Lake (at 5am), using luncheon meat. Picture attached. Vicki landed her first cat here last summer, which weighed in at just over 20lb, and she was hoping to beat that with an impressive 30lb […]

Tunnel Barn Farm April 2012

POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1st APRIL 2012 With the warm weather holding the fishery has fished particularly well over the past week with match weights up to 178lb required to win the opens and pleasure anglers reporting mixed bags up to 100lb of fish. The fish are now coming up in the water […]

Angling Trust To Fight Spread Of Beavers Into England

Angling bosses are courting controversy by bidding to stop the spread of beavers from Scotland into England. The Angling Trust has today written to Fisheries and Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon urging him to authorise the trapping and lethal control of beavers following the alleged failure of the Scottish government to contain populations within a […]

Scottish Grayling Record Broken

A seven-year-old angler has broken the Scottish grayling record after catching a huge specimen from the country’s river Clyde. At a weight of 3lb 10oz, the impressive fish smashes the previous best for the species, caught from the river Tweed, by over 8oz. The overjoyed captor, young Sam Thomson from Forth, south Lanarkshire, tempted his […]

fishingbaits.biz – The Marukyu Specialists

fishingbaits.biz  – The Marukyu Specialists At www.fishingbaits.biz you will find a new online service that sells the range of high quality baits from the Marukyu stable, and plenty of expert advice about how to get the best from it. The site even includes a bait ‘Wizard’ (www.fishingbaits.biz/fishing-bait-wizard.php ) which allows you to input the details […]

Welsh Smoothies – WATCH FOR FREE

Join Dave Barham, editor of Boat Fishing Monthly, on his annual smoothhound pilgrimage in this made-for-TV programme from the Sea Watch Monthly crew that’s free to view in April’s issue. He’s fishing four miles offshore aboard ‘My Way’ – and the reason he comes to this mark every year is because of the stamp of […]

Fishing The Pellet Cone: WATCH FOR FREE

Three times Matchman of the Year Andy May is without question on of the top commercial fishery match anglers in the country. And in this programme from video magazine Coarse & Match Fishing Monthly, he fishes Cudmore Fishery in Staffordshire, England, with a view to showing how to fish the pellet cone effectively. He catches […]

Fishing Western Australia WATCH NOW

On their first day at the Montebello Islands off the coast of Dampier, Steve and Marshy troll the shallow coral reefs for the prized coral trout. Sure, they’re easy enough to hook. But landing them … that’s another matter altogether.   There is also a surprise in store when Steve hooks an angry shark mackerel […]