Drenan England will return from the world angling championships without a men’s senior medal after the event on Italy’s Ostellato Canal. As so often happens, the Italians totally dominated on home water, scoring a brilliant nine points on day one with three section wins. Incredibly that was bettered by Holland, led by manager Jan Van Schendel, […]
Italy Win World Angling Championships Gold; No Medal For England
Evesham Angling Festival Shakespeare Championship
Evesham Angling Festival Shakespeare ChampionshipSaturday 27th August70 Fished.With the previous day’s heavy rain adding colour to this notoriously clear stretch river, many competitors were hopeful of a few better skimmers, bream, tench and barbel. However, only a handful of better fish showed and those who’d stuck to the ‘safe’ small fish option came out on […]
Abu Garcia/Wychavon Championship
Evesham Angling FestivalAbu Garcia/Wychavon Championship28th August 201170 Fished. Jon Arthur has added the prestigious Abu Garcia Wychavon Championship title to his angling CV after a single-minded bloodworm approach paid dividends. The blustery wind and fast pace made presentation difficult, but Jon managed 20 good sized roach, along with a few smaller samples for an 8-4-0 […]
Evesham Angling Festival Team Championships
Evesham Angling Festival29/08/2011Match Fishing Team Championship70 Fished Daiwa Dorking have taken the Match Fishing Team Championship trophy after one of the closest finishes in the history of the event. Dorking’s five-man side finished on 59 points from a possible 70, just five clear of second-placed Ultimate Barnsley Blacks and eight points clear of third-placed Shakespeare […]
Oakwood Win The Division Two National
Team honours in the Angling Trust Division Two National Championship held on Saturday 20th August 2011 on the Basingstoke Canal went to canal experts and ‘local’ team Oakwood Angling who put their experience and knowledge of the canal to good use by amassing 360 points, their lowest section points being a creditable 19 points on […]
Drennan England Win The Angling Trust Masters
The annual Angling Trust and Fish Legal Masters event was held at Mallory Park Fisheries, Leicestershire on Saturday 20th August 2011 supported by 16 industry and press teams. This is primarily a team event with 6 anglers in a team spread over the whole complex. There were 11 weights over 100lbs but it was not […]
Shakespeare/Match Fishing Veterans Championship
24/08/201170 Fished. The legend that is Dennis ‘Fatha’ White destroyed the field in this years Veterans Championship, with a superb display of hemp fishing from fancied peg 50. Barnsley man Denis started his match on his favoured bread punch at nine metres. Fishing a 1g rig, Denis soon started to catch small roach, while regularly loose […]
Wychavon Qualifier Results
21/08/201167 Fished. With bloodworm and joker banned for this weekends matches, Sundays Wychavon qualifier proved to be tough for a lot of the field, with very few of the small fish that we witnessed over the last two weekends making an appearance. This didn’t bother the joint winners Paul Jackson (Gloucester) and John Rafferty (Baileys […]
9th European Pike Championship
2011 GRAND PIKE OF VASTERVIK One of the World’s Best Pike Fishing Camps – VASTERVIK FISHING CAMP TEST CENTER, are pleased to present the Biggest PIKE FISHING competition in Europe! The Championship is to be held on October 1st – 8th, 2011 at the VASTERVIK FISHING CAMP, Sweden. The most accomplished PIKE FISHERMENS from Belgium, […]
Andy Powers To £50,000 Angling Final Win.
23 year old, unemployed, competition angler, Andy Power, from Somerton, Wilts, took the Maver Match This £50,000 winner takes all angling final held a Larford Lakes, Stourport Worcestershire, beating23 of the UK’s top match anglers to land the catch of a lifetime. Grant Albutt (Garbolino) finished a close second, losing a possible match winning £50,000 […]
Daiwa Dorking Storm To Division One National Success
Daiwa Dorking took centre stage at the Angling Trust Division One National Championship on Saturday 6th August 2011 on the New Junction Canal, Doncaster to not only win as team Champions with 551 points and weight of 25.520kg, but for top England International angler, Steve Gardener to win the gold medal in the individual category […]
Abu Garcia /Wychavon Qualifier
30/07/201163 fished. A low clear river along with blazing sunshine is generally a recipe for a tough days fishing, but Pershore rod Jim Smith found no such problems after drawing fancied peg 29 . As this peg had won the match the previous weekend, Jim set about his day with confidence knowing that his swim […]
Danny Ashington Wins The Barston Bowl
Nigel Harrhy presents the Barston Bowl to Danny Ashington and a £1000Danny won from peg 67 in the far deep corner of the Barston lake. He fished long into the corner, having to stand most of the time to see his float over the reeds. His float was right nby the edges of the foot […]
Black Cat On The Prowl…
Black Cat, keen to get their claws into the event, have pounced on one of the three sections available for the 2012 World Catfish Classic. The section, which will be presented as the Black Cat Zone, will be easily recognised by the placement of the distinctive Black Cat logo upon its banners. The Black Cat […]
Davis Wins Shakespeare Qualifier 23rd July 2011
62 fished. Ex Shakespeare Superteam Stalwart Tony Davis scored an impressive win from peg 42 with a weight of 9-4-0. Going into the last hour, Gloucester- rod Tony had just a few small fish and his hopes of any kind of comeback seemed dashed when he lost a serpent sized eel just as he was […]
