Maver boss Phil Briscoe tells me his stretch of the river at Stourport has been fishing really well and doesn’t expect any let up in sport. Bronze maggot on the float for chub and roach, along with a blockend feeder filled with Dynamite Baits Swimstim green pellets and a few caster and maggots, for barbel […]

Fishery manager and top match ace, Mal Watson, who now fishes for Daiwa Gordon League, thinks that chopped worm on the pole will start to be a major player, especially when we enter the month of March. Bank Pool (26 pegs) holds plenty of carp and chub, and the resident skimmers and big perch have […]

Moat Pool (180 pegs) will receive a stocking of at least half-a-ton of carp from 1 kilo to 1½ kilos at the end of February, and as these are new fish, they’ll be hungry and take any bait you like to chuck at them! Stockies to 1lb are feeding well on Reed (47) and Hallcroft’s […]

Graham, who runs the on-site tackle shop (tel: 01926 842188) along with match ace Pete Rice, has all the info anglers need and the deadly duo will take your open match bookings on that number and supply top quality bait. The Bottom Pool (29 pegs) is very well protected from the elements and skimmers, bream […]

High Pool (35 pegs) has recently received a mass stocking of small carp, and while any bait will see your pole float disappear beneath the surface, red maggot is as good as any. However, as temperatures rise, red or strawberry flavoured cubes of meat and red sweetcorn will be the tempters for the bigger carp […]

 Monday 17.01.05 – Cost Cutter – 10 Fished on Island1st Paul Webley (Bears) 24.3.0 Peg 132nd Jason Cowan (Team ‘Ave It) 17.12.0 Peg 143rd Gary Kirkham (Droitwich Angling) 15.9.0 Peg 22 Wednesday 19.01.05 – Open – 12 Fished on Moors1st Simon Mottram (Phoenix Shrewsbury) 67.6.0 Peg 92nd Mick Keene (Phoenix Shrewsbury) 18.3.0 Peg 183rd Dave Highfield […]

Wednesday Open – 12.01.05 – 10 Fished on Middle1st  Gary Kirkham (Droitwich Angling) 31.10.0 Peg 122nd Paul Webley (Bears) 28.13.0 Peg 83rd Dave Highfield (Moorlands) 27.5.0 Peg 4 Thursday Cost-Cutter – 13.01.05 – 22 Fished on Meadow1st Mal Watson (Daiwa Gordon Lge) 44.0.0 Peg 592nd Paul Webley (Bears) 33.3.0 Peg 113rd Mark Johnson (Fosters) 31.6.0 Peg […]

The Cavendish always produces fish in any conditions waggler, feeder or pole, maggot, caster and pinkie and even pellet taking fish best pegs have been in the middle of the lake and the low numbers.Club resultWelbeck black rods     Cavendish lake    Sunday 9/01/051st     Terry Schofield     peg 11     13 -14-02nd    Mick Sliegh                    […]

It’s that man Brian Bennett again as he seems to be winning loads of dosh at Stourport while poor Dave Harrell is drawing crap … so he tells me! This permanently pegged stretch, controlled by Lyttleton AA, is solid with roach at the present and fishing very well indeed with weights over 20lb winning matches. […]

Evesham match ace, Brian Bennett, (although Dave Harrell fiercely disputes that title!), tells me that the town stretch is fishing it’s wotsits off, with chub to 3lb, plus loads of chublets, showing themselves to be very greedy both below the bridge and permanent pegs 1 to 10 downstream of the famous ‘boards’. Wag ‘n’ mag […]

Richard at Shelton’s of Peterborough (tel: 01733 565287) loves his lures in winter, especially Rapala and Ondex, so take the hint and spend some time casting and retrieving on the Nene this winter. But where and for what? Pike, perch and chub downstream of Milton Ferry Bridge, known as ‘The Jungle’, because you are guaranteed […]

Located in Hartlebury near Kidderminster in Worcester where new owners Mark and Shaun can be contacted on 01299 250427 and the lovely Tracy will take your club and open match bookings. Look towards feeding little and catching plenty on all pools, with maggots, pinkies, casters and the odd kernel of sweetcorn the main baits, but […]

Three miles out of Stourport on the B4196 off the A452 and Maver boss Phil Briscoe relishes a winter challenge on his two lakes that are teeming with quality fish. Some challenge … they throw themselves at the hookbait! The Match Lake (85 pegs) is a real softie when it comes to winter baits, so […]

With 400 pegs available to anglers (and more to come soon), this prolific Midlands water can be found in Hallcroft Lane, Retford, Nottinghamshire, and fishery owners, Terry, Luke and Nick Sears, can be contacted on 01777 710448 for match and club bookings along with general information. Go ‘small’ with both feed and hookbaits, go much […]

head for Front Deans (33 pegs) and Back Deans (31), where a maggot feeder cast out into the deeper water in the middle is the prime suspect. January is all about getting bites and then building on your foundations, and whilst red maggots (dead ones seem to be the best hookers) are to be loaded […]