Moorlands Farm Fishery has announced its Christmas match schedule with special fur and feather events on Thursday December 20th and Saturday 22nd, with the fishery closing then until Boxing Day. The complex then welcomes in 2013 with a New Year’s Day Open – more details on www.moorlands-farm.co.uk .
Christmas Matches At Moorlands Farm
Winter Common Record For Summers
Monument Fishery has a new common carp record after West Midlands based engineer Ian Summers slipped the landing net under a magnificent fish weighing 43lb 14oz. While other anglers around spodded out big beds of maggots, Ian stuck to a more conservative feeder approach over a bar at 60 yards to keep disturbance to a […]
Tunnel Barn Farm Christmas Match Programme 2012
Extra prize money from the bonus pegs will be added to some matches to boost the prize fund MONDAY 24TH SANTAS SPECIAL OPEN *£100* WEDNESDAY 26th THE BOXING DAY BASH NO PEG FEES 100% PAYOUTTHURSDAY 27th PAIRS MATCH £45 PER PAIR *£200*FRIDAY 28TH THE FRIDAY FLYER OPEN *£100*SATURDAY 29TH OPEN *£100*SUNDAY 30th OPEN *£100*MONDAY […]
Huge 6lb Perch To Lure Angler
Here’s a perch to tickle the fancy of any predator angler out there – all 6lb 6oz of it. That’s bigger than the British record! The magnificent fish fell to the rod of German angler and guide Andreas Schutt, who caught it while lure fishing in the southern Baltic in two to three metres of […]
Near 50lb Salmon From The Tweed: FREE TO VIEW
The latest issue of Game Fisher’s Dairy includes the incredible picture and story of a near 50lb salmon landed on the fly from the River Tweed – the biggest from the famed Scottish borders river for years. It fell to the rod of Edinburgh angler Jim Read, with expert assistance from ghillie Ian Farr, and […]
Chilly Bags His Target Fish: Video
Carp ace Ian Chillcott has already banked his target fish from Linear Fisheries’ Manor Farm Lake –– and The Carp Channel was there to exclusively capture it on film. You can see the capture FREE TO VIEW in the video news bulletin in the brand new issue of The Carp Channel – just visit www.carp-channel.com […]
Massive Tweed Salmon On The Fly!
The biggest salmon seen on the River Tweed for years – a fish close to 50lb – has been landed from the river below Sir Walter Scott’s favourite Borders viewpoint. Ghillie Ian Farr helped land the mighty cock fish, the biggest he’s banked in 25 years at the job. The lucky anger was Edinburgh’s Jim […]
Good Roach Fishing On The Newry Canal
A hard overnight frost and a reduced water level in the Albert Basin didn’t bode well for the Anglers assembled outside the Quays on Sunday morning. Some of the gathering looked decidedly worried as they presented their licences for the Loughs Agency Fishery Officers to inspect. With some men travelling from as far away as Newtownabbey […]
Fishing for Life Strategy launched
A strategy to get more people fishing and help projects that use fishing to provide support to people in need was launched at the Angling Summit in London. The new strategy, Fishing for Life, was launched by Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon to encourage more people to try angling. The Environment Agency and Angling Trust developed […]
Chapman At The Treble
Dave Chapman has had a week to remember at Tunnel Barn Fishery. The White Hart rod won Monday’s open match on Club Pool with 76-10-0 of carp and F1s on pole and pellet, fishing three lines at six, eight and ten metres. He then followed up in the Tuesday Over 50s event, fishing the same […]
Ladies No Longer First At Birmingham Anglers Association
Some equality that perhaps won’t be welcomed by the fairer sex is the Birmingham Anglers Association’s decision for abolish their Ladies Membership. The move is a direct result of a European Union Directive, that makes it illegal for clubs and associations to discriminate on the grounds of gender. Ladies from 17 to 65 years of […]
Harrell’s Triumphs In Hereford Festival
Dave Harrell once again proved his river fishing prowess by winning the Shakespeare sponsored Hereford Angling Festival. Despite low and clear conditions for this sell-out three-day event, there were plenty of good weights, especially from the pegs in the 80s on the right bank. The area produced the day one winner in the shape of […]
Youngster Banks Massive Ebro Albino
Will Sudders has banked what may be the biggest albino catfish ever landed by a teenager on Spain’s River Ebro, at a massive 175lb. At 7ft 10in long, the monster was a full three feet longer than the 13-year-old from Colchester in Essex. It came during a week when fishing was ‘quite slow’ with the water […]
Darryl Moore wins the Angling Trust British Pike Final Championship
This year saw an increase of competitors taking part in the Angling Trust British Pike Final on the 20 Foot River, and Glassmoor Bank on Whittlesey AA’s waters with a total of 225 entrants. Difficult weather conditions greeted the competitors with an overnight frost, and rain settling in for most of the morning of […]
Patching Pond Raid: FREE TO VIEW
The latest issue of The Carp Channel includes a brand new episode of Chilly On Carp, in which Ian Chillcott uses all his senses to catch cool-water carp on a lake stocked by Donald Leney in the early 1960s. This time our ace is on Patching Pond in Sussex, England, one of the oldest man-made […]