Details have emerged of a new Winter League set to take place on Lincolnshire’s popular Fossdyke Canal. Having played host to several high profile leagues in the past, the Fossdyke has a reputation for offering top quality sport even in the coldest of weathers. League organiser Alan Henry said “Living just a few miles from […]
Harrisons To Sponsor New League On The Fossdyke
Sea Watch Monthly Issue III out now: FREE TO VIEW
The latest issue of Sea Watch Monthly – the video magazine for shore and boats anglers – is now live and FREE TO VIEW here on this website. It’s packed with sea fishing tips, tackle, rigs advice and sea angling adventure with some two and a half hours of free to view content – just […]
National Fishing Month-Better Than Ever
National Fishing Month (NFM) 2011 has been hailed as a resounding success with more than 300 events taking place across the country attracting over 15,000 participants of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and social profiles. This year’s events which took place between 16th July to 14th August 2011, got off to a great start with the […]
Free Lining For Chub And Barbel: WATCH FOR FREE
Nottinghamshire’s River Idle is classic British small river country – this tributary of the River Trent is fast, clear and full of clever, wary chub and barbel. Kev Green of ‘Predators’ fame is fishing with river ace Bob Roberts, who is his guide to free-lining on waters like this. There can be no simpler way […]
Mark Holmes Bags a 50lb Beauty!
Hardy & Greys Academy member Mark Holmes has just banked a 50lb 6oz beauty. It is Mark’s sixth UK 50 plus and comes after a succession of good catches over the summer. When asked about the details of the capture Mark said, “This carp is the 2nd 50lb plus I have had from Lakeview and […]
Sunline Joins Fight Against Line Cheats
One of Japan’s top fishing line manufacturers has joined EFTTA’s campaign against line cheats. Sunline, which was founded in 1977 and is a major supplier to its domestic market, has signed up to EFTTA’s Line Charter – a campaign designed to end the practice of wrongly labeled line packaging. The company’s Hiroshi Togi said: “Sunline […]
Catch A Catfish: WATCH FOR FREE
Simon Clarke is your guide to setting up correctly when catfish are your target quarry, in this programme from the Fishing TV stable. It’s free to view here on this website in September’s issue of ‘Coarse And Match Fishing Monthly’. WATCH ‘CATCH A CATFISH’ NOW Catfish Pro boss Simon runs through how to set up […]
Geoff Vallence Secures Bury Hill Silvers Festival
37 Anglers took part in this midweek annual event on the Old Lake at Bury Hill Fishery and for plenty of the competitors the bream and skimmers were obliging. Day 1 saw Ed Green draw peg 74 and he took full advantage putting together an excellent feeder performance with 84-0-0 of bream up to 5lbs […]
Dominant Dorking Take Preston Innovations World Club Classic Qualifier
Dominant Daiwa Dorking rounded off the year with their forth major team success on Nottingham’s Newark Dyke on 24th/25th September 2011. Their emphatic victory over 9 of Britain’s top teams has surely guaranteed their number one UK status.This World Club qualifier is now in its second year and is made up of teams finishing in […]
Coarse And Match Fishing Monthly III – WATCH FOR FREE
The third issue of ‘Coarse And Match Fishing Monthly’ – the video magazine for coarse and match anglers – it out now and FREE TO VIEW here on this website.The issue is packed with over 20 videos and over three hours of great coarse fishing instruction and entertainment from some of the sport’s top names… […]
Giant Ravensthorpe Rainbow
Highlight of the week of trout fishing at Ravensthorpe is the capture of a whopping 14lb 2oz rainbow trout to Andy Kress. Andy was out fishing with his son and a friend only 100m from the lodge when he managed to tempt the fish, which is just 6oz short of this season’s best. The fish […]
Huggins Wins British Waterways Stillwater Champs 2011
Low water levels at Boddington Reservoir forced organisers to move the British Waterways Stillwater Championships to Blythe Waters at Solihull, and with high winds blowing competitors were apprehensive. However, the top three anglers all weighed in over 37lb with Dynamite Baits Backed Sean Huggins taking the £3,000 top prize thanks to a 55-7-0 bag from […]
Mellings Is Midland Angler Of The Year 2011
Wayne Mellings is the 2011 Midland Angler Of The Year after posting a perfect two-point scorecard at Solihull’s Barston Lakes. The competition, which was set up by Total-Fishing.com’s Gareth Purnell up with fishery owner Nigel Harrhy some nine years ago when he was editor of Midland Angler magazine, sees 40 top anglers fishing two matches […]
Fish ‘O’ Mania 2012 Qualifiers
The venues for the 2012 Fish O Mania competition and it’s good news for Midlands anglers with five of the 16 qualifiers taking place in the region. Moorlands Farm isn’t in the line-up this year, but Maver Larford is on May 5th, in addition to Makins Fishery on April 21st, Woodland View Fishery on April […]
Harrell Smashes Severn Record
Hot on the heels of a new River Severn float record, the river match record has been obliterated by Dave Harrell with an incredible 213lb weight. Fishing in the Upton-on-Severn Festival, Dave drew a plum peg which is not usually used in matches but is known to hold a big head of big bream to […]
