Britain’s biggest angling festival takes place on the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham over the August Bank Holiday weekend, with organisers anticipating in excess of 50,000 visitors over the three days. The Evesham Festival is a three-day angling extravaganza with many extra attractions, and from its humble beginnings after starting back in 1978 it has grown […]
50,000 Visitors Predicted At Evesham!
Bag Em Duo Capture Maver Pairs
A perfect two section wins secured Bag ‘Em sponsored anglers, Neil Machin and Andy Moors the 2010 Maver British Pole Championships. Fifty six pairs took part and former Matchmen of the Year Neil and Andy won £1500 and a Maver 361 pole each worth £2000 a piece after being the only pairing to post a […]
£5,000 Hyper Leasing Match Series Gets The Green Light
Mark Barnes has fished since the age of six and started match fishing at the age of eleven. He was there at the zenith of match fishing when 100 peg sell-out opens were the norm and even club matches attracted coach-loads of eager competitors. With low prize-payouts and costly outlays, it’s difficult to attract the […]
Record Traffic For Total-Fishing.com
Top UK angling website Total-Fishing.com is delighted to announce all time record traffic figures.Over the period July 17th to August 16th 2010, over 40,000 unique users visited the website, which carries news, tackle reviews, articles and has a very busy forum. The 40,000 anglers came from 102,000 visits which in turn produced nearly 635,000 page […]
Hardy, Greys and Chub On Facebook
As part of a wider social media marketing strategy, fishing tackle brands Hardy, Greys and Chub are now on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The Facebook pages are listed below and each link to the appropriate YouTube and Twitter accounts.Hardy and Greys marketing executive Cat McGinty explains ”Facebook is a great space in which to reach […]
Near Welsh Record Dover Sole
Penarth angler Bobby Tripp was knocked flat after landing a near Welsh record Dover sole while fishing at Jacksons Point, Barry, Total-Fishing.com can exclusively report. The 4lb fish came in the early evening three hours before high tide and fell to ragworm, fished on a custom-built Century Tip Tornedo rod, size 4/0 Uptide Z Viking […]
Grant Albutt Snatches UK Champs Crown
The final round of the Preston Innovations backed UK Angling Championship saw a shock as Midlander Grant Albutt stole the prestigious UK Champs title from under the noses of long odds-on favourites Pete Bailey and Darren Cox. The pair had a three and four point advantage respectively going into the last round at Barston Lakes. […]
Shakespeare Championship Qualifier August 15th
Warwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry65 pegs Barbel back on top! After a roach dominated previous few results, it was all change at this match, which saw two double figure barbel secure the top places. At Peg 15 Daiwa Dorking team man Dave Harpin added a double figure pellet caught fish to […]
Abu Garcia Wychavon Championship Qualifier 14th August
Warwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry65 pegs Narrow victory for Sam! A gin clear and slowly rising River Avon threw up a very close result list at the latest Evesham Festival Saturday fixture which was won at downstream Hampton Ferry peg 75 by Maver Barnsley team man Sam Wildsmith.Working with a long […]
Angel Of The North Lakes August 2010
Sunday 29th Aug 2010 open/league Lookout Horrendous gusts of wind 44 mph! Conditions: Torrential Rain at start, then Partly Cloudy and rain through match, ambient temp 13 deg, wind at start W 16 mph then swung N 22mph with gusts to 44mph!!!!!!!!, humidity 88%, barometer 1009.1 mb, moon phase waning crescent, DO 8.7 ppm, Water […]
Sherwood Forest Farm Fishery August 2010
Holmedale Lake Wednesday 25/8/1024 fished It was one of the best matches recorded at the fishery six weights over 100lb and anglers tipping back 60lb nets, at the top of the list was school teacher John Woodland having one carp on the method feeder cast to island before changing to the pole fishing down both […]
White Acres August 2010
MONDAY GOLD RESIDENTS MATCH23rd AUGUST 2010 20 ANGLERS FISHEDTWIN OAKS 1st MICK STAMP 133lb 10oz SONU BAITS Peg 16 Twin Oaks Method feeder & pellet shallow 2nd CHRIS BARLEY 126lb 02oz BAG-UM Peg 20 Twin Oaks Meat in the margins & method feeder 3rd COLIN ELLAWAY 125lb 05oz B.R.F.C. Peg 17 Twin Oaks Method […]
River Boyne Produces 20lb Salmon
Irish Catch of the Week goes to Mark Sweeney, who caught and released this 20lb salmon on the River Boyne. The River Boyne has always been noted for its big salmon and this cracker put up a tremendous fight. Mark got a couple of quick snaps before returning the fish, which swam away strongly. If […]
OnlineFishing.tv Launches Its Freeplayer
Web-based angling TV channel OnlineFishing.tv is launching a new ‘Freeplayer’ with over 90 minutes of free-to-watch programmes online. The Freeplayer, which went live this week at www.onlinefishing.tv/freeplayer and will change every two weeks, includes a cocktail of extended clips from its 300+ shows, some complete programmes, tips, interviews and tackle-based videos made specifically for the […]
Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery August 2010
Tunnel Barn farm Fishery matches and fishery form, Weekly Report ending 29th August 2010 With heavy rain late on in the week, all of the pools are now full. The fishing this week has been good despite the conditions, with 130lb caught in the mid week match. Pleasure anglers are also catching big weights. The […]
