‘If it doesn’t bite you, electrocute you, sting you… then it doesn’t belong here!’ So begins this amazing Amazon fishing adventure with Brit abroad Steve Townson on a river that’s home to an unbelievable 3,000 species of freshwater fish. Steve, who happens to be World Peacock Bass Champion, spends a week on a floating hotel […]
Welcome To The Jungle: FREE TO VIEW
Just One Fly: FREE TO VIEW
Rae Borras takes up an invitation to compete in the River Test One Fly Competition, fished by top anglers and celebrities on the home of English fly fishing and its carriers. The rules are simple – the anglers have just one fly with which to catch as many trout as they can. If they lose […]
Game Fisher’s Diary Aug/Sept Issue: FREE TO VIEW
To mark the arrival of summer (at last), and our launch onto Samsung Smart TVs, the Aug/Sept 2012 issue of the free-to-view video magazine Game Fisher’s Diary is the biggest yet, with over three hours of great content for fly anglers everywhere. There are highlights from no less than five full-length feature programmes, with something […]
Angling Trust Action On Cormorants Campaign
The Angling Trust has today launched the Action on Cormorants campaign which urges anglers to write to their MPs supporting the call to put cormorants and goosanders on the general licence on an annual, reviewable basis. This would give them the same status as rooks, crows, jays and magpies whose numbers can be controlled without […]
Shakespeare Championship Qualifier
Evesham Town & Ferry Waters48 Fished.1 Trevor Chalk 18-7-0 (peg 20)2 John Freeborn (Sensas North) 13-6-8 (peg 60)3 Paul Glenfield (Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths) 12-9-0 (peg 36)4 Paul Norledge (Worcester AA) 12-0-0 (peg 30)5 Pete Morris (Sensas WB Clarke) 11-6-0 (peg 7)Qualifiers:Trevor ChalkJohn FreebornWith the river still holding a tinge of extra colour, weights were once […]
Alvechurch Grab The SuperCup
Birmingham match team Alvechurch Fisheries have claimed victory in the biggest club angling competition of the year, the Bait Tech sponsored Angling Times Supercup. Fished at Tunnel Barn Fishery at Shrewley, the match saw 15 teams going head to head after a series of gruelling knockout rounds – five each from the Midlands, South and […]
Anglers Going To Seed On The Warwickshire Avon
Better weather means clearer water on rivers and a change of tactics for match anglers fishing the Evesham Festival qualifiers. On Saturday in the Wychavon match fished by 75 anglers, Steve Ashmore started on the feeder, picking up a few perch and eels. He fed a pole line with hemp all day and in the […]
National Fishing Month Off To A Flying Start
Despite the poor weather conditions and the cancellation of the CLA Game Fair at Belvoir Castle, National Fishing Month 2012 began in style with a celebrity launch. Fisheries Minister, Richard Benyon, was on hand to open activities at a special event organised by Reading and District Angling Association (RDAA) at Longwater Lake, Green Park, Reading […]
Wales ‘Storm’ Holyhead for Home Win
Bad weather meant that this years’ Home Nations Boat Championship had to be restricted to a four hour session afloat on each day of the two days of the Championships from 4th – 7th July in Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales, but this did not prevent the hosts Wales taking the spoils in Holyhead. Uptide tactics, […]
Midlands National Fishing Week Events
August see the start of National Fishing Month – the focus of which is to get new people to try the sport. Sponsor Go Outdoors has organised a series of in-store events which include teaching sessions and hints and tips on carp, coarse, game and sea fishing, including at the Coventry store on August 3rd […]
Late Summer Canal League
Gary Kirkham has booked a series of six open matches on the Stoke Works section of the Grand Union Canal in late summer, before the winter leagues start. The dates for the diary are August 5th, 19th, September 2nd, 9th, 23rd and 30th. “We should get the best of the fishing on the canal before […]
Amazon Angling To Hit TV Screens
Adventure angler Steve Townson has fulfilled his dream of getting a TV series about the incredible fishing of the Amazon Basin onto British television. The eight-part ‘Fishing Expedition Amazonia’ will be screened every Friday at 10pm from Friday August 31st on Discovery TV.It came about following a chance meeting with producer James Worby at an […]
Chilly’s Abbey Lakes Adventure; FREE TO VIEW
Chilly is brushing up on his, er, ‘French’, as he heads across the channel to Abbey Lakes, a carp water noted for its really big carp that’s been in the Premier League of the French carp circuit for over a decade. Chilly’s not got any special treatment – the venue’s Fox Lake is fully booked […]
Carp Channel Issue 12 Now Live And Free To View
Rain, rain and more rain. If the atrocious weather in the UK is keeping you from your angling, why not get some of your carp fishing fix by checking out the latest issue of the Carp Channel, which is now live and free to view here on this website. And even if you are cooped […]
Fantastic day On The Wye For Tony
Tony Cockerill from Kent had what he described as, “the best two days of my life” when he booked a two-day coaching break on the River Wye with Dave Harrell through Docklow Pools. Tony joined Dave on Docklow’s Rotherwas stretch of the river and on the first day he was shown how to put swimfeeder […]
