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Boxing Day Pairs Match
Call Daiwa Hallcroft fishery on 01777 710448 or E-mail fishing@hallcroftfishery.co.uk for further info or to book in. Draw 9.30am Boxing DayHallcroft Fishery & Caravan Park, Hallcroft Road, Retford, Notts, DN22 7RA
Collingham anglers home and dry
This month (December 2009) the Environment Agency completed the construction of 18 new stone angling pegs on the tidal River Trent at Collingham. Before the new pegs were built anglers had to manage to fish from large rocks that were used for flood defence purposes or unstable grass banks. Because this stretch of the river […]
Lanes Bait Winter League
Lanes Bait Winter League, final round (6) 34 pegsMeadowlands Fishery, Warren and Lambsdown pools 1st Kev Mcmanus (Tornadoes) 61lb 4oz2nd Nige Harrhy (Barston) 28lb 12oz3rd Steve Daley (Maver Solihull AC) 19lb 12 oz It was a difficult day at meadowlands not many big weights showing, but this did not stop Kev Mcmanus from catching 61lb […]
Wiltshire Wins Classic Qualifier at Larford Lakes
Classic Qualifier – Specimen LakeSunday, 13th December 2009A brilliant turn out of 31 anglers on a bitterly cold day. A severe frost overnight made for difficult presentation. Winner on the day was Rob Wiltshire (Cwmbran Nobblers) who drew peg 19 on the burr bank. Rob cast long with method feeder and 6mm pellet to land […]
The E3,000 Lough Ree International Pike Festival
A Boat Angling Competition For Predator AnglersWednesday, Thursday and Friday 14th-16th April 2010 If you like the idea of pike fishing in Ireland, and winning some serious while you’re at it, then you should consider the Lough Ree International Pike Festival. The festival is open to all anglers and will take place on Lough Ree at […]
Shakey Clear With A Round To Spare
Shakespeare continue their dominance of the region’s team match fishing scene – they have as good as qualified for the semi finals of the Winter League from the Warwickshire Division with a round still left to fish. The team’s latest triumph came in round five on Lee Woodhouse’s HanKat stretch of the Walsall Canal – […]
New Fish For Tunnel Barn
Mike Hamblington has ‘got the fish moving’ at Tunnel Barn Farm with a winter stocking of half a ton of F1s, and the results have been immediate.The beauty of F1s – a kind of carp/crucian carp cross – is that they feed straight after they have been stocked, and they feed all winter. Mike has […]
Free Night Light With Angler’s Mail
ANGLER’S MAIL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL IT’S time for…THE ANGLER’S MAIL BUMPER CHRISTMAS ISSUE!The giant double issue of Angler’s Mail is on sale from Tuesday, December 15, priced only £2.50, and it comes with A FREE NIGHTLIGHT. Highlights of this big value magazine (cover-dated Dec 15/22) include: • REVEALED: 2010’S BEST NEW GEAR. • CARP LESSONS TO LEARN BEFORE […]
North Uist Top 10 Trout Lochs
Re-produced from an article originally published in Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Robert MacDougall-Davis reveals his top ten North Uist trout lochs A labyrinth of vast, mysterious and seldom fished lochs lie hidden away in the watery paradise of North Uist. So where on earth do you start and how does the visiting angler, who […]
The Realm of the Hebridean Slob Trout
Re-produced from an article originally published in Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Robert MacDougall-Davis goes slob hunting in North Uist’s brackish lagoons Deep purple stretches far into the distance and a plethora of trout infested lochs lie amid the heather, dotted puddle-like, beneath an all encompassing backdrop of gunmetal mountains. This is North Uist, the […]
OnlineFishing Is A TV Gift For Anglers
Angling TV channel OnlineFishing.tv is a year old and has over 220 great fishing shows to watch online and in great quality.There are no less than 15 exclusive new TV series already on the channel and some of these are now available on DVD just in time for Christmas, including ‘Nick Hart’s FlyFishing School’, ‘Chilly […]
New Tame Home For 10,500 Fish
A stretch of the River Tame at Tamworth that was badly affected by pollution has received an early Christmas present of 10,500 young fish. The fish, which include roach, dace, chub and barbel, were bred at our Calverton Fish Farm, near Nottingham, specially for re-stocking rivers. At any one time, Calverton holds about 1 million […]
Christmas Success For Birthday Boy Rob
Coventry’s Rob Swain won the big Christmas match at Packington Somers just in time for his 57th birthday this week.Like most of us Rob, who used to fish the canals and rivers with Leamington DAM, has had to adapt from natural waters to the commercial scene and by his own admission it’s taken him 12 […]
Lake District Report 2009
Reports to 30th November 2009 Updated on 2nd December 2009 ENGLISH LAKES FLY FISHING WITH PATRICK ARNOLD. ANGLING IN THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT (165A)This Report now covers Game Angling only. WEATHER November is often a wet month but this year it was exceptionally so – taking the Country as a whole it was the wettest […]
Plans To Introduce Beaver’s To England’s Rivers Are ‘Ludicrous’
Labour’s Parliamentary Angling spokesman Martin Salter used last week’s Commons debate on fisheries to describe as “ludicrous” plans by Natural England to re-introduce the beaver to the English countryside. The Reading West MP highlighted the new fish passage regulations and proposed new rules governing hydropower schemes which are designed to remove obstructions to migrating fish […]
