Category: Angling News

Kev Grout Wins 2013 UK Carp Cup

Battling horrendous conditions and a final line-up of the quality we had never seen the likes of before meant this year’s Carp Cup champion would be even more of a deserved winner, but who would emerge from 40-hours of top end competition and leave with the coveted UKCC trophy? The weeks leading up to the […]

Grant Takes On Shatterford Lakes

Top Midlands open match angler Grant Albutt is taking on the running of one of the best waters in the region in Shatterford Lakes. The six-lake venue, which was established in 1972, is situated in a valley on the Bridgnorth Road only 10 minutes from Kidderminster and Stourbridge and is noted for offering great sport all […]

Kamasan Starlets Sign Rob Wootton

Birmingham based match team Kamasan Starlets has added to its ranks by signing Rob Wootton onto its books. Rob has been on a great run of results this year and won the Shakespeare Championship at Evesham in August. He has concentrated on individual events in the main in the past but expressed the desire to […]

Great October Sport At Portumna

Mike Murray of Murray’s Angling Services reports that the past couple of weeks have provided fantastic sport in Portumna both on The Shannon and Lough Derg. Huge shoals of roach, hybrids, bream and perch have been congregating between the Salmon Run and the entrance to Lough Derg. Pike  are shadowing the shoals and silverfish anglers […]

Vendace Re-Appear In Bassenthwaite Lake

The vendace – Britain’s rarest freshwater fish and one that was thought to be extinct in the UK apart from in two waters – has re-emerged in a study of Bassenthwaite Lake. A ‘fish community study’ run through the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology found a single specimen. The small size of the fish, only […]

Grayling Record From Slovenia

During a recent trip to Slovenia, American angler Christian Anderson landed a potential new All-Tackle Length world record grayling (Thymallus thymallus) while fishing the Soca River on August 7th. Anderson was fly fishing with a small ant patterned dry fly and needed only three minutes to subdue the 39 cm fish – only the second record […]

Light Tackle Black Snapper

Aussie angler Ian Middleton already holds several line world class records for Papuan black snapper (Lutjanus goldiei), and after a recent trip to Papua New Guinea, he may have claimed another. While fishing with local guide Barly Kelai on August 17th, Middleton tamed a 9.98 kg (22 lb 0 oz) black snapper on only 2 kg […]

Shambles Bank Turbot: FREE TO VIEW

There can’t be many sea anglers out there who wouldn’t love to catch a big turbot and that’s exactly what Dave Barham and Jim Midgley are after when they head out over the famous Shambles Bank in this new episode of ‘Boat Fishing With Barham’ from Fishing TV. The guys are champing at the bit, […]