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!! 
Mark Holmes Bags a 50lb Beauty!
Hardy & Greys Academy member Mark Holmes has just banked a 50lb 6oz beauty. It is Mark’s sixth UK 50 plus and comes after a succession of good catches over the summer. When asked about the details of the capture Mark said, “This carp is the 2nd 50lb plus I have had from Lakeview and […]
Sunline Joins Fight Against Line Cheats
One of Japan’s top fishing line manufacturers has joined EFTTA’s campaign against line cheats. Sunline, which was founded in 1977 and is a major supplier to its domestic market, has signed up to EFTTA’s Line Charter – a campaign designed to end the practice of wrongly labeled line packaging. The company’s Hiroshi Togi said: “Sunline […]
Catch A Catfish: WATCH FOR FREE
Simon Clarke is your guide to setting up correctly when catfish are your target quarry, in this programme from the Fishing TV stable. It’s free to view here on this website in September’s issue of ‘Coarse And Match Fishing Monthly’. WATCH ‘CATCH A CATFISH’ NOW Catfish Pro boss Simon runs through how to set up […]
Geoff Vallence Secures Bury Hill Silvers Festival
37 Anglers took part in this midweek annual event on the Old Lake at Bury Hill Fishery and for plenty of the competitors the bream and skimmers were obliging. Day 1 saw Ed Green draw peg 74 and he took full advantage putting together an excellent feeder performance with 84-0-0 of bream up to 5lbs […]
Dominant Dorking Take Preston Innovations World Club Classic Qualifier
Dominant Daiwa Dorking rounded off the year with their forth major team success on Nottingham’s Newark Dyke on 24th/25th September 2011. Their emphatic victory over 9 of Britain’s top teams has surely guaranteed their number one UK status.This World Club qualifier is now in its second year and is made up of teams finishing in […]
Coarse And Match Fishing Monthly III – WATCH FOR FREE
The third issue of ‘Coarse And Match Fishing Monthly’ – the video magazine for coarse and match anglers – it out now and FREE TO VIEW here on this website.The issue is packed with over 20 videos and over three hours of great coarse fishing instruction and entertainment from some of the sport’s top names… […]
Angel Of The North Lakes September 2011
Sunday 25th Sept 2011 open Lookout Conditions: – Partly Cloudy, ambient temp 17 deg, wind SSW 14 mph, barometer 1007.6mb, moon phase waning crescent, water temp 10.1 deg, Ph 7.76, DO 8.95, mv 45 1st Eddie Collins 40lb silvers peg 5 went over net2nd Chris Owers 33lb 13oz peg 113rd Neil Brown 32lb 11oz peg 124th John […]
Giant Ravensthorpe Rainbow
Highlight of the week of trout fishing at Ravensthorpe is the capture of a whopping 14lb 2oz rainbow trout to Andy Kress. Andy was out fishing with his son and a friend only 100m from the lodge when he managed to tempt the fish, which is just 6oz short of this season’s best. The fish […]
Huggins Wins British Waterways Stillwater Champs 2011
Low water levels at Boddington Reservoir forced organisers to move the British Waterways Stillwater Championships to Blythe Waters at Solihull, and with high winds blowing competitors were apprehensive. However, the top three anglers all weighed in over 37lb with Dynamite Baits Backed Sean Huggins taking the £3,000 top prize thanks to a 55-7-0 bag from […]
Mellings Is Midland Angler Of The Year 2011
Wayne Mellings is the 2011 Midland Angler Of The Year after posting a perfect two-point scorecard at Solihull’s Barston Lakes. The competition, which was set up by Total-Fishing.com’s Gareth Purnell up with fishery owner Nigel Harrhy some nine years ago when he was editor of Midland Angler magazine, sees 40 top anglers fishing two matches […]
Fish ‘O’ Mania 2012 Qualifiers
The venues for the 2012 Fish O Mania competition and it’s good news for Midlands anglers with five of the 16 qualifiers taking place in the region. Moorlands Farm isn’t in the line-up this year, but Maver Larford is on May 5th, in addition to Makins Fishery on April 21st, Woodland View Fishery on April […]
Harrell Smashes Severn Record
Hot on the heels of a new River Severn float record, the river match record has been obliterated by Dave Harrell with an incredible 213lb weight. Fishing in the Upton-on-Severn Festival, Dave drew a plum peg which is not usually used in matches but is known to hold a big head of big bream to […]
Fly Fishing Large Stillwaters – WATCH FOR FREE
Large stillwaters strike fear into the heart of many fly anglers; but there is no need to be daunted by their size. In this episode from Fishing TV’s exclusive series, ‘Nick Hart’s Fly Fishing School’, we learn from a full-time professional fly fishing guide as he takes on several hundred acres of water in the […]
Packington Somers Fishery September 2011
FISHING & MATCH REPORT – WEEK ENDING 25/9/11 MATCH RESULTS STARLETS VETS (MOLANDS)1. John Berry 41 – 2 Peg 44 Carp, Skimmers & F1’s on Pole & Pellet2. Dave Duggan 37 -143. Ray Quiney 31 – 84. John Downing 31 – 1 WEDNESDAY OPEN (MOLANDS)1. Lee Richards (Packington) 69 – 3 Peg 2 […]
Browning Moorlands Farm September 2011
Tuesday 20.09.11 – Super Cost-Cutter19 fished on Bank & Moors1st Paul Cartwright (Moorlands) 89.2.0 Peg 18 Moors2nd Chris Clemson (Dudley AC) 76.0.0 Peg 21 Moors3rd Pete Mace (Moorlands) 64.10.0 Peg 4 Moors Wednesday 21.09.11 – Over 50’s19 fished on Silver & Middle1st Trevor Hodges (Wetherton Roofing) 127.2.0 Peg 14 Silver2nd Barry Chesson (Park Inn) 110.12.0 Peg 42 Silver3rd Paul Foster (Starlet Vets) 107.4.0 Peg 34 Silver Thursday 22.09.11 – Cost-Cutter18 fished on Meadow1st Martin Lefevre (Moorlands […]
