On Wednesday 17 March 2010 the Environment Agency’s Central Midlands Fisheries Team transferred 52 large mature chub from the River Sence to the River Tame to boost stocks even further after pollution last year killed many fish in the Tame. The operation was a success with 30.7 KG of chub weighing up to1.5 KG captured […]

Spreading the word of excellence and professionalism in game angling instruction; The Game Angling Instructors Association (GAIA) held its annual spring meeting on the Tweedswood beat of the river Tweed near Melrose in the Scottish Borders. The event was run from the 12th to the 14th of March 2010 and was a mixture of assessments, […]

Some of Europe’s top match anglers will be attending a Spring Open Day at Benwick Sports on April 10th. Confirmed guests include Didier Delannoy, Alan Scotthorne, Bob Nudd, Will Raison, Mark Pollard, Steve Ringer, Neil Machin, Lee Kerry, Nick Larkin and Andy Kinder. The day will include a pole alley and demonstrations from Sonu, Guru, […]

Leamington Angling Association member Robert Swann ended the season in style with what could be a river record barbel from the Warwickshire Avon. Robert was fishing the association’s stretch of the Midlands river at Wasperton using good, old fashioned barbel tactics – luncheon meat over a bed of groundbait – to land the fish that […]

The predator fishing grapevine is buzzing with stories of an enormous fish from the Norfolk broads caught in the last days of the river season. The mighty female pike is said to have bottomed out 42lb 8oz scales and was caught by Craig Humphries, a 30-year-old who lives in Germany and can definitely be described […]

Last Thursday, 11 March 2010, Fisheries staff from the Environment Agency released 500 rudd into Golden Hill Pool, Stoke on Trent. Golden Hill Pool was hit badly by the ‘big freeze’ this winter and lost a number of carp and bream although, fortunately, the tench that we stocked before Christmas seem to have been unaffected. […]

OnlineFishing.tv will be filming at this year’s Ivan Mark’s Memorial match to create a TV tribute to the greatest match angler of them all.The internet based TV channel for anglers – www.onlinefishing.tv – will be filming an episode of its Match TV series, an hopes to talk to many anglers who fished with the match […]

It’s been hard to get any kind of decent river fishing in this winter – just ask Warwickshire Avon specialist Ashley Burton. He’s normally on the river three times a week throughout the last two months of the season, but such has been the weather he’s hardly been out and when he has, he’s hardly […]

CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH NUMBER: 18TROPHY:   Last Bash TrophyDATE:   14 March 2010VENUE:  Peninsular Lake, Blake Hall1st Malc MUNN   24 lb 8 oz  2nd  Dave COTTERILL  21 lb 2 oz3rd  Carl HENRICK   17 lb 8 oz4th  Gary HEMMINGS  14 lb 12 oz5th  Anthony WHITE   14 lb 8 oz REPORTMatch 17 (Jubilee Cup) was cancelled due to dangerous conditions and we wait to see whether it will […]

Saturday the 27th February saw 65 anglers brave the cold conditions to raise money for Bury Hill’s Haiti Angling Appeal.With both a predator match and silver fish match taking place, the fishing was understandably tough following two or three days of torrential rain prior to the event, although conditions on the day were dry and […]

Chub Academy member Chris Lowe has landed a double whammy!           Fishing a 48-hour session on a private syndicate water, Chris not only landed the 47.3lb mirror carp, breaking his PB; but also put himself in pole position for largest fish caught by a Greys/Chub academy so far this year this year. Using a Greys Torsion […]

Double figure fish breaks long standing Irish record An angler fishing out of County Cork has boated a new Irish haddock record at a massive 11lb 14oz. Tony Santry was deep sea fishing with skipper Colin Barnes of the Holly Joe when he hooked into a bigger than average fish. After a bit of a […]

The River Suck produced one of her famous big predators this week in the shape of the 32lb 8oz pike to pike fanatic Richard Dunne. Richard, who was fishing under a full moon, was fishing the river just outside Ballinasloe when he hooked the big female, which is a personal best by just 4oz.“I’d had […]