Fantastic start to the new season at Rutland Water Sunshine and smiles on Friday 13th as anglers enjoy a rod average of 5.88 John’s giant Ravensthorpe Rainbow weighs in at 11lb 8oz John Archer takes best Rainbow of the week at Ravensthorpe Anglian Water Airflo International Don’t miss out on this great 6 man […]
Fantastic start to the new season at Rutland Water
40lb cod from the shore – first cast!
As first casts got they can’t come much better than this. Steve Ace is holidaying in Saltstraumen Brygge, at Saltfjorden in Northern Norway and couldn’t wait until morning to get fishing. The rod arched over in the darkness and he found himself connected to this beast, which put up a brute of a fight in […]
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Brace of big barbel for Trent angler
Pic: Eric Weeks with his 14lb 12oz Trent barbel Long Eaton Victoria Angling Society member Eric Weeks had an eventful couple of days this week. On Tuesday 10th March he had his first fishing trip to the River Trent on the LEVAS Long Eaton stretch since August last year.He was rewarded with a personal best barbel […]
Teams confirmed for Evesham Team Champs
The eight teams that are to receive invites for this year’s Match Fishing Team Championship Final on Evesham’s River Avon have been confirmed. Midlands teams invited to compete include Kamasan Starlets, Shakespeare Superteam, W B Clarke and Daiwa Gordon League. The event – which forms the last day of the Evesham Angling Festival, is regarded […]
New look Angler’s Mail
AN ALL-NEW Angler’s Mail magazine has just hit the shelves– with an exciting new look and new contents. The big value weekly is still priced £1.90 but – following extensive research, talking to anglers – delivers more of many key things. Amongst the changes, you’ll find: MORE VENUES –a new look Where To Fish This […]
Ivan Marks Memorial Match 2015
Mallory Park Fisheries will be holding the 11th annual running of the Ivan Marks Memorial Match in May. It will be, as always, open to all anglers of any standard and offers a great opportunity to ‘rub shoulders’ with star anglers from all over the country, including Full Internationals from several countries. This event WILL […]
Big cash prizes at Tunnel Barn Farm
Tunnel Barn Farm’s three-day May Bank Holiday Festival will see the winner walk away with £1,000 in readies, with big cash prizes right down to sixth place. With fishing on Top, Extension and High Pools (17 pegs on each) on May 23rd, 24th and 25th, it’s £22 to enter. which includes a £7 peg fee. […]
Drennan Team England 2015 Match Fishing Squads Announced
The Angling Trust has announced the Drennan Team England Squads for 2015. The team will compete on four fronts this year as they attempt to win gold at the World Championships and retain their European and Fish ‘O’ Mania International titles. The team will also compete in the reinstated Home International Championships which will be […]
Angling tackles ‘dirty Kennet’
Angling and Fisheries groups from Kintbury to Reading have joined forces with local MP Richard Benyon to tackle the longstanding issue of River Kennet turbidity caused by the entry of dirty canal water impacting on the famous chalk stream from Copse Lock at Hamstead Marshall. The groups fear that unless the Environment Agency and the […]
Biggest trout of the season from Ravenbsthorpe
Peter Bass looks delighted with this superb 12lb 13oz rainbow trout, the biggest of the season so far from Anglian Water’s Ravensthorpe Reservoir. The fish took a Pitsford Pea pattern and is a personal best. Also this week, Newcastle angler Gary Munro made the drive to Ravensthorpe worthwhile with a 9lb 4oz rainbow trout, […]
James cracks the canal perch population
Get Hooked on Fishing’s James Thornhill has been getting to know the perch population on the canals to the west of London and certainly appears to have cracked it lately. Fishing short sessions he’s landed stripeys to over 3lb, fishing simply with a 8/10gr jig heads and plasticperch patterns. Said James, who runs the GHOF […]
Phil’s 5lb 4oz river perch ‘ the fish of the season’
Anglers have hailed Phil Smith’s superb 5lb 4oz river perch as the fish of the season, from any venue. The mighty predator, thought to be the equal biggest of the species caught from a UK river, fell to the Coventry angler’s classic tactic of legered lobworm. Previously the biggest UK river perch mantle was held […]
Drop shotting at Woodland View
Strange goings on at Woodland View Fishery where anglers have been seen dangling curious jelly like offerings into the margins. But fret not, because the top Midlands match venue is experiencing some of the new drop shotting craze that’s sweeping the country. Drop shotting is a form of very light lure fishing, and is especially […]
Harrell: Pair up on river matches
Midlands match fishing ace Dave Harrell is touting a novel pairs idea that would see two anglers fishing from the same peg. Dave, the man behind the successful Riverfest series, believes it could encourage more pleasure anglers back onto running water. He said: “A lot of pleasure anglers don’t match fish because you are isolated […]
Crucian carp features on 2015 rod licence
The Environment Agency has unveiled its new design for this year’s rod licences. Designed by renowned angling and wildlife artist, David Miller, the new rod licences are now on sale. The image on this year’s coarse fishing rod licence is a crucian carp (Carassius carassius) and the non-coarse is a salmon (Salmo salar). Last year […]
