A fine bag of chub dominated Round Two of the Coventry Canal Winter League at Atherstone, Rob Chambers coming out on top with six for 14-8-0. Rob fished pole-fished bunches of bloodworm at Ran Hill to lead the 32-strong field by over 2lb from Darren Lewis, which weighed in 11-12-0. Maver Tipton lead the way […]
Chub Dominate On Coventry Canal
Tight Lines Friday 28th January
Friday 28th January 7:00pm Sky Sports 4Repeated: 10:30pm Sky Sports 2Sat. 4:00am Sky Sports 38:00am Sky Sports 3 Match fishing is the focus on this week’s show and Keith’s guest will be Scottish International Jamie Masson. He’s been at the top of the game for 20 years and has amassed over 1,000 open match wins […]
Angel Of The North Lakes January 2011
Sunday 23rd Jan 2011 open/League Lookout Conditions: – Mostly Cloudy, ambient temp 5 deg, humidity 81%, wind WNW 3 mph, barometer dropped from highest of 1042 mb to 1036.9 mb still very high, moon phase waning gibbous, water temp rose to 2.2 deg (dropped to under 1 deg on Friday after some severe frosts), ph 6.95, […]
‘Kobra’ Open 20th January 2011
EVENT: THURSDAY ‘KOBRA’ OPENVENUE: DYNAMITE MAKINSDATE: 20 January 2011RESULT1st Gaz WOOD Browning Central 13 lb 12 oz2nd Mick TIMSON Elton Tackle 10 lb 8 oz3rd Dave KENT Long Eaton Victoria AS 9 lb 10 oz4th John RICKETTS Swann Baits/Mosella 8 lb5th John ADAMSON Kobra Feeders 5 lb 10 ozNumber of pegs: 15 Report:In spite of a hard frost throughout Dynamite Makins Lagoon produced a good match for the Kobra Thursday Open. […]
Glebe Festival 2011 Entry Details
The 2011 Glebe Festival takes place as always on the last Friday and Saturday of May, the 27th and 28th, at Roy Marlow’s Glebe Lake and The Foundation at Mallory Park. As always it’s only open to members of the Total-Fishing.com club – www.total-fishingclub.com Entry is £40 with all the pegging fees going to charity. […]
Christchurch Angling Club Salmon Open Day
Christchurch Angling Club Salmon Fishing Open DaySunday 6th Feb 2011 Somerley Estate EllinghamHampshire BH24 3PL Christchurch Angling Club’s Salmon Open Day is rather special this year. The historic Salmon Lodge has been rebuilt and will be opened by the Earl Normanton as the highlight of this year’s Open day. This special day is open to […]
Denis Is The Zander Menace
If there’s one angler who knows how to catch big zander, it’s Savage Gear consultant Denis Curot. Denis has weaved his magic once again, and this time with an LB Grub lure fished on a 5gram Ball Jig Head using Adrenaline 0.13mm braid and thin Spectrum FC tippet. The fish, measuring 90cm long and weighing […]
‘By Catch’ Fish Sales On The Up Following TV Series
Sales of less popular species of fish have taken off following the Channel 4 Fish Fight series of programmes. The Guardian reports that shoppers are now turning to coley, dab, mussels, squid and sardines after species were championed in the TV series by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s, who is also the newspaper’s food writer.Greenpeace, however, has urged […]
Expansion Of Dead Zones
Oceanic Dead Zones Exposing Tuna And Billfish To More Overfishing With the New Year comes new challenges to fish in our world s oceans and one of the major concerns is the expansion of hypoxic zones. That s the scientific name but more recreational anglers are becoming aware of them as dead zones. They are […]
Calls To Feed Britain on Freshwater Fish ‘Ridiculous’: Angling Trust
Nick Weston in the Observer Food Monthly advocates eating wild freshwater coarse fish as a potential solution to the tragic decline of our marine fish stocks in his article ?Freshwater Fish Fight?, posted on your web site Monday October 17th. This suggestion is not only ludicrous, but following it would also, generally, be illegal. Buried […]
Mystery Salmon Virus Hits Fraser River
SOCKEYE salmon are dying in large numbers on the River Fraser in British Columbia, one of Canada’s most important salmon rivers. It is less than three months since it was reported that the River Fraser had been enjoying a huge salmon run, with an estimated 34 million fish – the second large run last year. […]
White Acres January 2011
COUNTY POINTS 33 anglers fished NAME METHOD LB OZ POINTS 1st TONY WILLIAMS big perch down the edge On double caster and fed chopped worm and caster 35 4 16 TEAM GWINEAR COUNTY CORNWALL 2nd STEVE MAYNARD Roach, Skimmers and Bream short and long pole on caster over groundbait, Perch (to 2lb) to caster over worm down the inside. 31 12 14 TEAM WHITE ACRES PEG 14 POLLAWYN COUNTY CORNWALL 3rd PAUL CARPENTER 4m line with casters 28 4 12 TEAM WHITE ACRES PEG 31 POLLAWYN COUNTY CORNWALL 4th ANDY PARTRIDGE 3 big skimmers, perch and […]
Gareth Goldson wins the prestigious Specimen Angler of the Year!
Hardy & Greys Coarse Academy member Gareth Goldson has won the prestigious Specimen Angler of the Year. Awarded by the Angling Times, the award is given out to an angler who has had notable consistent specimen catches throughout the year; Gareth’s include a 3lb Rudd and a 6lb 6oz Chub.Gareth said;“Well it’s fair to say […]
Angling Trades Association Supports Fish Fight
The ATA has joined HFW’s Fish Fight to provide its wholehearted support to end of the unnecessary and unethical practice of discarding commercially-caught sea fish. It is crucial for the future of recreational sea angling that the oceans support plentiful, robust and sustainable populations of catchable fish. There has been a steady decline spanning more […]
Tight Lines Friday 21st January…
Friday 21st January 7:00pm Sky Sports 4Repeated: 11:30pm Sky Sports 2Sat. 4:00am Sky Sports 38:00am Sky Sports 3 This week Keith will be joined by Andy Lush, a fly angler and lure fishing specialist. As well as discussing fly fishing for trout, Andy will be talking about his current passion of fishing for predators, namely […]
