Angling Trust Winter League Northern Semi Final (Sponsored by Partridge Lakes, Nr Warrington) Sunday 1st April 2012 Stainforth & Keadby Canal, Thorne Match Report The second of the Angling Trust Winter League Northern semi-finals again faced the changes in the weather conditions with overnight temperatures of minus 3 degrees, which was going to have a big […]
Ultimate Barnsley Blacks Win Stainforth And Keadby Winter League Semi Final
Drennan North West Win Lindholme Lakes Winter League Semi Final
Match Report The first of the Northern semi-finals of the Angling Trust Winter League took place on Saturday 31st March 2012 at Garbolino Lindholme Lakes, Epworth, Doncaster with 90 anglers who set out to be one of the top 3 teams out of the 9 competing teams to qualify for a place in the Winter […]
Robson Green’s New Extreme Fishing Challenge
Robson Green returns to network TV this month with a new series of extreme fishing on Channel Five.Actor Green has spent the last four years travelling the globe, and has done it all from catching half-ton sharks in Ascension Island, to the fastest fish on Earth in Costa Rica. Now, in Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge, […]
Match This – Team Championship News
Following on from the announcement that a Team Championship event will feature as part of the 2012 ‘Match This’ weekend, Maver (UK) have been working hard behind the scenes in an effort to bring together the best club teams currently in the UK. The teams currently selected include Ultimate Barnsley Blacks, Daiwa Gordon League, Maver […]
Take A Friend Fishing
The TAKE A FRIEND FISHING promotion is back to encourage thousands of parents, grandparents and friends to take the time over the Easter break to give family members and friends the chance to have a go at fishing. Particularly if there’s nothing they want to watch on the TV and they have an extra few […]
Bait-Tech Festival, White Acres
With 180 in attendance including some of the very best in Britain, this was sure to be another hotly contested event. The sun was shining and the fish fed well which led to some huge weights from all over the complex. Tony Wynnick topped the big weight stakes with a staggering 240lb but some very […]
Dorking Cruise To Victory On Kennet And Avon Canal
Match Report A hard overnight frost and bright sunshine led to a very slow start for the 90 competitors on the Angling Trust Winter League second Southern Semi Final on the Kennet & Avon Canal at Marlborough on Sunday 1st April 2012. It took a few boats to stir things up and get the fish […]
Angling Trust To Assist Clubs In CEMEX Negotiations
Following concerns expressed by anglers worried that the Cemex portfolio of about 100 waters could be lost to the sport the Angling Trust has contacted Fennwright, the agents handling the sale, and offered to broker contacts with interested clubs or fisheries interests to see if the owners would consider joint bids in order to retain […]
Vicki Shatters Ladies Catfish Record
Vicki Davies has set a new ladies’ venue catfish record at Shatterford Lakes with a 68lb beauty – a fish less than 2lb short of the biggest of the species ever landed in the UK by a female angler. The fish, which came from peg 15 on Masters Lake and took luncheon meat at 5am, […]
Tons Begin To Flow At Tunnel Barn Farm
The tons are starting to flow at Tunnel Barn Farm, with 11 reported in open matches in the last week, topped by an impressive 178-11-0 in the Wednesday Open on New Pool to Kingsmill Redditch rod Paul Newell. Paul fished bread and slop at nine metres up in the water for a bag of F1s, […]
Kamasan Starlets Take Gloucester Canal Semi Final
Match ReportA cold northerly wind greeted the 80 competitors to the Gloucester Canal for the first Southern Semi Final of the Angling Trust Winter League and the plunging temperatures meant the normally prolific roach went off the feed. The saving grace was the skimmers and bream which did show reasonably well especially in the later […]
Kamasan Starlets Take Gloucester Canal Semi Final
Match ReportA cold northerly wind greeted the 80 competitors to the Gloucester Canal for the first Southern Semi Final of the Angling Trust Winter League and the plunging temperatures meant the normally prolific roach went off the feed. The saving grace was the skimmers and bream which did show reasonably well especially in the later […]
Angling Trust To Fight Spread Of Beavers Into England
Angling bosses are courting controversy by bidding to stop the spread of beavers from Scotland into England. The Angling Trust has today written to Fisheries and Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon urging him to authorise the trapping and lethal control of beavers following the alleged failure of the Scottish government to contain populations within a […]
Scottish Grayling Record Broken
A seven-year-old angler has broken the Scottish grayling record after catching a huge specimen from the country’s river Clyde. At a weight of 3lb 10oz, the impressive fish smashes the previous best for the species, caught from the river Tweed, by over 8oz. The overjoyed captor, young Sam Thomson from Forth, south Lanarkshire, tempted his […]
Welsh Smoothies – WATCH FOR FREE
Join Dave Barham, editor of Boat Fishing Monthly, on his annual smoothhound pilgrimage in this made-for-TV programme from the Sea Watch Monthly crew that’s free to view in April’s issue. He’s fishing four miles offshore aboard ‘My Way’ – and the reason he comes to this mark every year is because of the stamp of […]
