TWO men were arrested in California last week in connection with an illegal marijuana plantation, which diverted water from a stream that supported steelhead trout and coho salmon. An anonymous tip-off led to a raid on 15 July at a six-acre property in Bonny Doon, California, where 180 mature marijuana plants were seized, states a […]
Weeding Out The Water Thieves
England’s World Feeder Gold: Angling Trust Report
The Angling Trust’s Preston Innovations sponsored England Feeder team shattered the opposition in the 4th FIPSed World Feeder Championships from 19th – 20th July on the fantastic Inniscarra Lake near Cork in Southern Ireland. Tom Pickering’ s men had spent a great deal of time travelling and practising on the venue, and all their efforts […]
Significant Changes To Winter League Structure
The Angling Trust has taken its first steps to safeguard the future of the Winter League. The aim is to improve satisfaction among existing Winter League anglers and attempt to introduce new teams and anglers to the league. The changes have been introduced following a survey conducted by the Angling Trust to gather the thoughts […]
Kozyra wins River Trent Riverfest qualifier
Sunny conditions greeted the competitors who took part in the Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier on the River Trent at Newark on Saturday 19th July. The winner on the day and the first competitor from this qualifier to go through to the RiverFest final on 15th/16th November was Paul Kozyra from York, who weighed in 41 […]
Franklin Wins Boddington Reservoir Qualifier
Thirty two anglers fished the Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Stillwater qualifier at Boddington Reservoir on 16th July in hot, and still conditions. The early pegs proved difficult to tempt the carp to feed, with flat calm water. The later pegs had more ripple on the water, and carp soon came to method […]
Warks Avon Fish Feeder After Downpour
Saturday 19th July 2014 Wychavon Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 68 fished. Result: 1 Rich Reynolds (Maver Bait-Tech) 14-8-0 (peg 36) 2 Bradley Proctor (MAS) 14-4-0 (peg 2) 3 Joe Oakes (Middy) 12-5-0 (peg 67) 4 Roger Marlow (Drennan Leicester) 10-5-0 (peg 78) 5 Jim Smith (Pershore Match Group) 10-3-0 (peg 76) […]
Matrix Dynamite Trentmen Beat Starlets
Sunday 20/07/2014 Match Fishing Team Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 65 fished. Individuals: 1 Ant King (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 9-12-0 (peg 1) 2 Alan Stephens (Alcester Sports) 7-7-0 (peg 41) 3 Ed Warren (Kamasan Starlets) 7-4-0 (peg 52) 4 Tom Potter (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 7-0-0 (peg 36) 5 Jim Brockie (Alcester Sports) […]
Steve Ringer and England win gold at World Feeder Championships
England have another team and individual international gold medal to their name after fairly blitzing the 2014 World Feeder Champs in a one sided event on Ireland’s Inniscarra Reservoir. England won both days easily, and posted the highest overall team weight by some 27kg, coming home by a clear 36 points on 26pts – in […]
World Feeder Championships 2014 – England lead from Ireland
England have taken a commanding lead after the first day of the 2014 World Feeder Fishing Championships on Inniscara Reservoir in Ireland… England’s Mick Vials is second, Steve Ringer fourth and Phil Ringer seventh as England lead by 12 points with home nation Ireland second, just ahead of Holland. Ireland’s Richard Pratt leads the individual […]
Monster Mongolian Taimen For British Angler
Roger Mortimore’s once-in-a-lifetime angling adventure into Outer Mongolia was crowned with capture of this magnificent taimen estimated at well over 40lb. Roger, who used to work on Total Sea Fishing magazine, made the 1500km-plus trip, at times travelling on horseback, more in hope than expectation of capturing the elusive creature. But the angling god’s were […]
Barbel Wins Evesham Qualifier For Rob South
Wednesday 16th July Evesham Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 57 Fished. 1 Rob South (Sensas WB Clarke) 12-1-0 (peg 43) 2 Pete Jayes (Quorn VDE) 7-13-0 (peg 15) 3 Alan Stephens (Evesham DAA) 6-14-0 (peg 65) = Adrian Higginbottom (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 6-14-0 (peg 82) 5 Tom Potter (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 6-8-0 […]
Huge Eel From White Acres Fishery
Probably the most jaw dropping big fish capture of the year has been taken from White Acres Holiday Park in Cornwall in the shape of this monster eel weighing 10lb 3oz. The fish, one of the biggest ever landed in the UK and only 15oz short of the British record landed over 35 years ago, […]
Huge Ferox Trout From Lough Corrib
Ireland’s Lough Corrib has produced a giant of a Ferox trout to Welsh angler Ceri Jones – this 23lb 12oz beast. The fish, the biggest Ferox ever officially weighed at west of Ireland venue, caps a long term ambition for Ceri, who has fished the water numerous times in search of a fish over the […]
BSafe – A New Generation Of Fish-Safe Nets
The introduction of a new technology that will dramatically cut transfer of fish disease is the result of leading lights from British industry pulling together. BSafe – short for ‘bacteria safe – began life in the mind of avid angler Derek Willan, who believes that all anglers should be doing their bit to safeguard fish […]
Richard Chave through RiverFest Final
Bream showed well for two of the three qualifiers in the fifth Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier of 2014 held on the Bristol Avon at Newbridge on Sunday 13th July. Richard Chave booked his place in the final with 51-7-0 from peg 97 where he used groundbait feeder with worm and maggot to bank 10 bream […]
