Chris Pondsford with the superb bronze sculptured trophy he won by being crowned Maver Midland Specialist of the Year for 2002.  Maver Midlands Specialist of the Year Final 2002, Larford Lakes Fishery WORCESTER’S Chris Pondsford (pictured above) is celebrating after being crowned ‘Midland Specialist Angler of the Year’ following a nail biting final at Stourport’s Larford Lakes Fishery.The […]

The greatest girlie fishing calendar ever- limited offer!MAKE sure of a bright start to every day in 2003 by treating yourself to one of these totty-packed angling calendars from Zebco. Featuring a bevy of top models and some awesome fish in 12 great poses, this is the best angling calendar ever produced. The glossy, full colour […]

ONE of the Midlands’ most popular day ticket and match venues – Browning Cudmore Fisheries – has been struck down by the killer carp virus SVC.The Staffordshire water had the disease confirmed by government experts on Friday morning although the fishery says the deaths have already stopped following three months of problems.Fishery manager Frank Clarke […]

STAFFORDSHIRE trout water Blithfield Reservoir has revealed one of her secrets in the shape of a magnificent pike weighing 39lb 4oz. The fish fell to the rod of Tring, Herts angler Jason Messanger, who tempted her from the 800-acre venue using a trolled Rapala lure. Jason says he had lost count of the number of […]

AN extensively illustrated early copy of Izaak’s Walton’s famous book The Compleat Angler is up for sale and could raise over £40,000.That’s the prediction of Salisbury based angling book dealers John and Judiith Heath, who say that their figure is based on a recent first edition sale of the 1836 book, which fetched $70,000.The extended […]

DESPITE angler pressure the known big chub of the Dorset Stour continue to grow and the venue record has just been beaten with a mighty fish weighing 8lb 8oz.The chub formed the larger half of an incredible brace which was completed by another fine fish weighing 7lb 4oz, and fell to the rod of Blandford, […]

A QUICK one for you carp heads here – Yateley’s Car Park Lake has produced its first carp for about a month in the shape of a fish called ‘Ugloe’ at 33lb 12oz. The fish came from the Back Bay swim and was taken at around 7am by Paul Claridge. It’s only the second fish […]

RMC Angling is to ban the use of carp sacks after a 30-year-old fish was found dead in one this week, total-fishing.com can reveal.It would appear that the sack wasn’t secured correctly and the fish was able to swim away in the sack, eventually starving to death.The fish was one of Yateley’s original stock and […]

Sea match round-upBIGGEST shore match of the week was Shiremouth and District’s Annual open, which took place between Amble Pier and Tynemouth Pier and attracted and excellent turn out of 372, incidentally far more than any coarse fishing match over the weekend.You needed peeler crab to be up there and that was the bait Whitley […]

AN English angler has beaten the Welsh boat caught bass record with a near 17-pounder taken off Llantwit Major.Fishing a legered pilchard during a trip aboard his own boat, Trowbridge, Wilts rod Barry Turk hooked into a massive fish which took the scales round to a whopping 16lb 14oz. The fish, which was beaten on a 12lb […]

IT’S clearly the month of the club angler as following last week’s capture of a record breaking barbel on the Royalty stretch of the Hants Avon in a club match, another one on the Ouse has produced a monster chub weighing 7lb 6oz.Terry Noble of Vauxhall AC knew he had drawn a noted chub peg in the match […]

A PIKE angler watched in horror as £3000 and the European Pike Angling Championships slipped through his fingers.Alcester, Warks based Kevin Roads hooked and boated a fine fish estimated at 22lb during the event on Ireland’s Lough Derg.But just as he went to weigh the fish, which would have given him an untouchable lead in the prestigious […]

THE Carp Society’s flagship water, Horseshoe Lake in the Cotswolds, has produced a new lake record of 40lb 14oz to Joe Easton. The fish came from the Sandbags swim in the deeper ‘Winter Bay‘ half of the lake, which is known for its stocks of Leney carp. Meanwhile news reaches us that RMC’s Amwell Lake, […]

THE zander at Bury Hill fisheries have gone into something of a feeding frenzy, with no less than 12 into double figures reported in the last week!Best fish reported to Total-Fishing is a magnificent stillwater fish of 15lb 10oz taken from peg 11, and in addition to the glut of doubles there have also been […]

RICHWORTH consultant Ron Buss has set a new record for Unity Lake at the popular Oxfordshire day ticket venue Linear Fisheries. Ron caught a 32lb 6oz mirror carp, known as the ‘Pretty One’, using Richworth Tutti Frutti boilies fished snowman style. Meanwhile Daren Henning, an installation supervisor from Derbyshire, is over the moon after catching […]