Category: Angling News

Macey On Camera Meets The Mekongs

Big fish man Dean Macey has travelled with ‘Fishing TV’ to the famous Gilhams Fishing Resort in Southern Thailand for a series of programmes in which he’s targeting some of the venue’s incredible freshwater fish, including arapaima, giant catfish, and the biggest carp of them all, the awesome looking Siamese carp, which grows to world […]

Minister Backs Angling Trust on Killer Chemicals

Angling and fishery organisations have today welcomed an announcement from the Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon that plans are being drawn up to remove products containing the  dangerous insecticide Chlorpyrifos from domestic sale.Mr Benyon was responding to strong representations from the Angling Trust, the national representative body for anglers, and fishery owners along the Kennet […]

Dorking Top Team Champs

Southern aces wins Match Fishing Team Championship. Daiwa Dorking have won the Match Fishing Team Championship on the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham, scoring a remarkable 61 points out of a possible 70. The team, made up of Simon Willsmore, Darren Davies, Will Raison, Michael Buchwalder and Ian Didcote beat second placed Shakespeare Superteam by a […]

Get Ready For The Bagging Machine League

Match anglers in the UK have a brand new national competition to look forward to, which looks set to give club and open match fisherman an equal chance of winning. Eighteen months in the making, the BAGGING MACHINE LEAGUE http://www.matchfishingonline.com/Competition.aspx will see anglers able to enter their weights from one weekend five-hour match a week, […]

Rob Wootton Wins 2013 Shakespeare Championships

Shimano and Dynamite Baits backed ace, Rob Wootton has lifted the Shakespeare Championship winners trophy, and £6,000 first prize, after a close match on Evesham’s Warwickshire Avon.The Leicester based rod caught a net of good perch and chub on long pole and flat float tactics, feeding chopped worms and maggots through  a baitdropper.  Rob’s winning […]