Rutland Water Fish week 396 (Season 23,347) Returns 151 (5,176) Rod average 2.62 (4.51) A number of limits were caught last week with the boat anglers catching the majority. 4,000 more fish were stocked last week, bringing the total stocked so far this season to 60,000. The main basin saw good numbers of fish […]
11lb 8oz rainbow trout from Pitsford Reservoir
Giant bream from north west England mere…
Bob Mortimer has banked the biggest bream to be caught in the UK for a very long time in the shape of this magnificent 21-pounder from a north west mere. The Stoke angler targeted the 90-acre venue with a pellet approach fished over a bar 60 yards from the bank. The mere is thought to […]
Anglian Water Trout Fishing August 2nd
Rutland Water Fish week 337 (Season 22,951) Returns 126 (5,025) Rod average 2.67 (4.56) Dan Pitcher of Langham netted the best fish of the week, a superb 5lb 14½oz Rainbow. This fine specimen fell to a minky fished on a floating line off the peninsula shoreline last Sunday. The best Brown of the week was […]
Big, beautiful, Bolivian golden dorado
This beautiful 29lb golden dorado looks set to be a new 8kg (16lb) world line class record for Colombian angler Alejandro Linares. He was fishing Bolivia’s Rio Torija with a popper lure when the big predator smashed into it. The fish was carefully unhook, photographed and released and a claim has been submitted to the IGFA. THE […]
Angling Trust backs Goring Hydropower protest on famous Thames Weirpool
The national representative body for angling, the Angling Trust, has this week put its weight behind the legal challenge mounted by Goring Parish Council against South Oxfordshire District Council planners in a judicial review which is seeking to overturn the planning permission recently granted for a hydropower scheme on Goring Weir. The Trust has been […]
Daiwa Schools National Angling Championships 2016
This year’s match was held on one of the hottest days of the year when temperatures touched 30 degrees centigrade. Yet despite this, the venue fished really well with thirty five competitors recording double figure weights and better. The winning team was Campsmount Academy from Doncaster who scored an impressive 47 points out of a […]
Bewl Water’s Tagged Golden Trout: £2500 To Captor
One lucky angler could find themselves £2,500 better off if they rise to the challenge of landing the Golden Trout at Bewl Water. The tagged trout with a price on its head has been released into the lake on the Kent and Sussex border and, from August 1st, anglers who pay an additional supplement of […]
Daiwa Dorking win World Club Championships 2016 in Italy
Taking on the Italians in their own back yard has always been seen as an enormous match fishing challenge, but the 2015 Div 1 champions Daiwa Dorking not only ‘handled the heat’ on the Circondariale Canal in Ostellato (San Marino) but did so by winning both days with 11 and 12 points, beating 27 other […]
Massive opah set for new world record
This massive opah could be a new world record and is one of five hooked at the same time on a trip near San Martin Island. The 181lb fish, which is 18lb over the current IGFA record, was caught by Joe Ludlow aboard the boat Excel. Ludlow was fishing in 190 feet of water soon […]
Tough on the Tees for RiverFest Qualifier
The Tees was a difficult river for most in this Riverfest qualifier on Saturday 16th July with just two 13lbs weights topping the frame. Gary Watson winning A zone with 13lb 1oz of bream and skimmers on the feeder. Peg A19. Winner of B zone was Ian Exley with 13lb 5oz of pole caught small […]
Craig Lowness tops Rochdale Canal Pairs Qualifier
Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Rochdale Canal Pairs Qualifier On Sunday 17th July 2016 was the long awaited Angling Trust/Canal & River Trust Canal Pairs qualifer on sections of the Rochdale Canal. 25 pairs fished the match with the weather staying dry and warm. Result. 1st Craig Lowness (Summit section) 18lb 15oz 8 bream […]
The anti wet wipe league
The campaign launched by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) against pollution caused by discarded wet wipes has this week received the backing of the Angling Trust – the national representative body for all forms of recreational fishing. The MCS ‘Wet Wipes Turn Nasty When You Flush Them’ campaign highlights the problems of sewer blockages caused […]
Bookies favourite Andy May wins Fish O Mania
In a hard fought final played out in some tough conditions, local man Andy May finally got his hands on the coveted Fish’O’Mania as he held firm to take the title in the closing stretch. It was the Middlewich man’s third attempt at fishing’s big one and he fought off Kerry Kirkwood and Ross Harold […]
Steve Whitfield doubles up on River Tyne Riverfest
Bag em Matchbaits angler Steve Whitfield takes winning spot for the second year running on the Tyne RiverFest qualifier. Bright & breezey conditions combined with low water combined to make the Tyne a difficult proposition for the 58 competitors taking part in this Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier on Sunday 10th July 2016. Winner, for the […]
Anglian Water trout fishing July 11th
Latest News and Information from Week ending 10 July 2016 • 6lb 12oz Rainbow is best of the season so far at Grafham Water Another excellent week with a rod average of 7.49 • Max points for Rich Cooper in Rutland’s Tuesday night Boat league Rich is building […]
