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!! 
Hallcroft Fishery results 24th July 2016
24th July 2016 Daiwa Hallcroft Open Moat (42 Pegs) D Oldham, Maltby Outer 6 180-6-0 Daz Oldham made it 2 wins in 2 with this victory from moat outer peg 6. Daz fished pellet and corn for 25 carp to 12lb S Clark, Mansfield Island 68 125-7-0 Steve Clark fished bomb and pellet and maggots […]
Angel of the North Lakes, July 24th
Catches are great with the water temp so high, both with carp and silvers are all feeding well, just need to keep feeding to keep fishing your peg. Some very good sized fish also being caught in good numbers. Paste made out of angel 3 mm pellets, banded angel pellets, are great for carp, and […]
Angling Trust backs Goring Hydropower protest on famous Thames Weirpool
The national representative body for angling, the Angling Trust, has this week put its weight behind the legal challenge mounted by Goring Parish Council against South Oxfordshire District Council planners in a judicial review which is seeking to overturn the planning permission recently granted for a hydropower scheme on Goring Weir. The Trust has been […]
Daiwa Schools National Angling Championships 2016
This year’s match was held on one of the hottest days of the year when temperatures touched 30 degrees centigrade. Yet despite this, the venue fished really well with thirty five competitors recording double figure weights and better. The winning team was Campsmount Academy from Doncaster who scored an impressive 47 points out of a […]
Bewl Water’s Tagged Golden Trout: £2500 To Captor
One lucky angler could find themselves £2,500 better off if they rise to the challenge of landing the Golden Trout at Bewl Water. The tagged trout with a price on its head has been released into the lake on the Kent and Sussex border and, from August 1st, anglers who pay an additional supplement of […]
Daiwa Dorking win World Club Championships 2016 in Italy
Taking on the Italians in their own back yard has always been seen as an enormous match fishing challenge, but the 2015 Div 1 champions Daiwa Dorking not only ‘handled the heat’ on the Circondariale Canal in Ostellato (San Marino) but did so by winning both days with 11 and 12 points, beating 27 other […]
Massive opah set for new world record
This massive opah could be a new world record and is one of five hooked at the same time on a trip near San Martin Island. The 181lb fish, which is 18lb over the current IGFA record, was caught by Joe Ludlow aboard the boat Excel. Ludlow was fishing in 190 feet of water soon […]
Tough on the Tees for RiverFest Qualifier
The Tees was a difficult river for most in this Riverfest qualifier on Saturday 16th July with just two 13lbs weights topping the frame. Gary Watson winning A zone with 13lb 1oz of bream and skimmers on the feeder. Peg A19. Winner of B zone was Ian Exley with 13lb 5oz of pole caught small […]
Craig Lowness tops Rochdale Canal Pairs Qualifier
Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Rochdale Canal Pairs Qualifier On Sunday 17th July 2016 was the long awaited Angling Trust/Canal & River Trust Canal Pairs qualifer on sections of the Rochdale Canal. 25 pairs fished the match with the weather staying dry and warm. Result. 1st Craig Lowness (Summit section) 18lb 15oz 8 bream […]
Packington Somers results 17th July 2016
FISHING REPORT – WEEK ENDING 17/7/16 MATCH RESULTSSTARLETS VETS (MOLANDS & SIBLINGS A & B) 1. Ron Savage (Lanes Bait) 66 – 5 Peg 7 SIBS A Carp & F1’s on Pole & Maggot 2. Bob Calcott (Packington) 63 – 9 3. Pat Clark (Lime Tree) 62 – 4 4. Derek Hartshorn […]
The anti wet wipe league
The campaign launched by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) against pollution caused by discarded wet wipes has this week received the backing of the Angling Trust – the national representative body for all forms of recreational fishing. The MCS ‘Wet Wipes Turn Nasty When You Flush Them’ campaign highlights the problems of sewer blockages caused […]
Angel of the North July 18th
Wow some absolutely stunning size quality fish have been caught this week. It is worth targeting Tench green 7lb 1oz caught , Rudd over 2lb in weight caught, Ide 4lb, Chub, Perch of 4lb 4oz deep stripes and huge mouth, quality other species as well as massive carp . Try Angel Pellet 8 mm banded […]
Tunnel Barn Farm results 17th July 2016
RESULTS FOR CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 17TH JULY 2016 Date: Monday 11th July 2016 MONDAY OPEN Pools: JENNY’SNo F/Man: 18 1st A Harper Mosella 111 – 8 8 2nd D Lutwyche Hawkesbury 91 – 7 2 3rd R Poulter Tunnel Barn Farm 80 – 9 6 4th D Callahan Measham Redfins 72 […]
Moorlands Farm Fishery July 15th
Tuesday 05.07.16 Super Cost – Cutter 22 fished Silver & Middle 1st Jon Hudson (P.R. Floats) 105.13.00 Peg 24 Silver 2nd Syd Julian (DHA) 104.02.00 Peg 35 Silver 3rd Keith Marsden (Leeds) 103.03.00 Peg 20 Silver Wednesday 06.07.16 Over 50’s 20 fished Bank, Moors & Island 1st Mal Watson (DGL) 151.08.00 Peg 11 Bank […]
Bookies favourite Andy May wins Fish O Mania
In a hard fought final played out in some tough conditions, local man Andy May finally got his hands on the coveted Fish’O’Mania as he held firm to take the title in the closing stretch. It was the Middlewich man’s third attempt at fishing’s big one and he fought off Kerry Kirkwood and Ross Harold […]
