Lymm Angling Club are pleased to announce they now hold the fishing rights to 4 ½ miles of the Bridgewater Canal from Waterloo bridge in Runcorn town to Crawley’s bridge at Preston Brook marina. From 1st March 2013 the club’s 1600 strong membership can enjoy this prime location which is regarded by many as one […]
Lymm Angling Club Take Control Of Bridgewater Canal
Junior Carp Camp 2013
Bait company CC Moore is once again getting behind the Carp Society Junior Carp Camp, which takes place at the end of May at the society’s flagship water Horseshoe Lake. Open to budding carpers aged 12-16, over four days the anglers will learn a variety of skills from casting to carp care, floater fishing to […]
Carp Farmer Fails In Otter Case
Carp famer and fishery boss Brian Dodson says he will go bankrupt after his attempt to sue the Environment Agency failed. Mr Dobson (60) claimed £2 million in compensation after he claimed otters killed his stock of 22,000 carp. He argued that the EA had a duty of care to alert him to the clear […]
Greys Bring Breakthrough Toreon Technology To Rod Making
Greys have been turning heads in the carp world with the introduction of a breakthrough carbon fibre technology used in its new AirCurve rod range. Three years in the making, the Aircurve utilizes a material called Toreon, which combines carbon fibre with a resin containing a series of Nano particles that has allowed them to […]
Fox Zig Aligna
One of the products that attracted plenty of interest at the recent round of carp shows was the new Fox Zig Aligna. In essence it’s a scaled down version of Fox’s existing Line Aligna sleeve, but with a loop at the back to hold your foam hook baits. It eliminates the need for a knotless […]
Kamasan Starlets In Winter League Southern Semi Final
Kamasan Starlets shine at the Angling Trust Winter League Southern Semi Final on the Grand Union Canal, Milton Keynes Following an overnight drop in temperature most anglers found their pegs frozen, but luckily most had thawed an hour into the match which led to a slow start at the Angling Trust Winter League Southern semi-final […]
Operation CLAMP DOWN
Targeting illegal angling during the coarse close season Between 15 March and 15 June 2013, the Angling Trust Voluntary Bailiff Service, in partnership with the Environment Agency (EA), will be running Operation CLAMP DOWN – targeting illegal angling during the coarse fishing close season. The VBS is currently a pilot project in the EA South […]
Potential Grey Gurnard Record Boated Off Plymouth
Plymouth Castaways SAC member, Kristian Quenault, is claiming a new boat caught Grey Gurnard record with this fish weighing 2lb 8oz.The gurnard took a Savage Gear Sandeel over a wreck off Plymouth. It was verified by respected angling journalist Mike Millman with the weight verified on a calibrated set of scales..Kristian was fishing from private […]
England Feeder anglers to compete at the European Feeder Friendly in Holland
The Van Den Eynde European Feeder Friendly International will be taking place again this year on 6th-7th April in Holland on the Ghent-Terneuzen canal.Last year saw two teams cross over the channel for this friendly feeder match representing the Angling Trust and team sponsors, Preston Innovations with the two teams bagging up the medals. […]
Team Daiwa Dorking win the Winter League Southern Semi Final
Cold but otherwise perfect conditions greeted the 100 competitors to the first Southern semi final of the Angling Trust Winter League at Gold Valley Lakes, Aldershot on Saturday 2nd March 2013. A slow start for most, and unfortunately a few blanks as the carp were still tightly shoaled, but otherwise some excellent weights were recorded […]
Monster Wels Catches In Biting Cold
The start of February 2013 saw Black Cat test anglers and wels guides Stefan Seuß and Benjamin Gründer and their guests head to the middle reaches of the Po. The wels camps on the river are normally closed at this time of year as the angling season does not start until the beginning of March. […]
England Youth Trials 2013
Larford Lakes is hosting a round of trials to find out who will represent England’s Under-23 side in the forthcoming world match fishing championships, which will be fished in July along the River Villaines in Brittany, France. The trial takes place on March 23rd along the venue’s Burr Bank with trialists fishing 75% of the […]
Barbel On The Feed At Linley
There was a good turnout of 30 anglers for the Birdgnorth Angling Society match on the River Severn and Linley on Sunday and those who made the frame enjoyed some decent sport. Barbel fishing on the feeder has come to be dominated by pellet fishing on the big river these days, so it was good […]
Silver Fish Feeding At Stourport
It’s been quite tough going on the area’s stillwaters in the last week – one match at Earlswood Lakes was won with a single skimmer bream – but some stretches of the River Severn have been in decent form running into the last weekend of the river season. Cradley Heath Labour held an event at […]
Cat Comes In From The Cold
It may still be pretty cold out there but Shatterford Fishery has already produced its first catfish of the year – a species more associated with the warmer months. The beauty of Shatterford is that the lakes there are deep and so fish are less affected by the plunging temperatures. The 30lb catfish came from […]
