Surrey angler Mark Tullet won the latest PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier fished on Saturday 2nd May 2009 at Stafford Moor Fishery, with 96lb of carp. A member of Surrey Starlets and an engineer by profession, Mark’s biggest carp was 6lb. He drew permanent peg “Tanners 18” and fished the long pole to his left […]

Lee, from Warwickshire, started fishing when he was 7 years old on the canals around the Warwickshire area, before progressing to win junior matches and successfully compete outside the junior age group in the club circuit. Lee started fishing waters including Barston in Sollihull and Spring Pools in Rugby, which accumulated in him winning the […]

EVENT: DYNAMITE BAITS MAKINS Thursday ‘Kobra Affordable Open’VENUE:   AVON, (Phase 3) Dynamite Baits MakinsDATE:  30 April 2009RESULT1st Dave KENT  Long Eaton Victoria AS  68 lb 8 oz2nd Phil PORTER Rugby     55 lb 8 oz3rd John ADAMSON Kobra Feeders   50 lb 4 oz4th Danny ROSS  Wykin AC    50 lb 2 oz5th Graham ELLIOTT Shepshead    47 lb 14 ozNumber of pegs: 19 Report:The Thursday Kobra Affordable Open fished on Avon at Dynamite […]

EVENT: DYNAMITE BAITS MAKINS Wednesday ‘KOBRA’ AffordableVENUE:  Lake 2, DYNAMITE BAITS MAKINSDATE:  29 April 2009RESULT1st Mick TIMSON J&K Tackle    131 lb 14 oz2nd James HAWKINS Matchman Supplies   129lb 4 oz3rd Duncan WARRALL Attleborough Anglers  96 lb 8 oz4th Baz SMITHSON Gedling Tackle   86 lb 14 oz5th Phil JARRAM Matchman Supplies   67 lb 8 ozNumber of pegs: 25 Report:Once again Lake 2 at Dynamite Baits Makins Fishery proved completely unpredictable.  In the […]

Many thanks to those of your who fished the charity fishing at Tylers Common in Brentwood yesterday and I hope you enjoyed the day, it looks like we will raise well over £1000 once all the pledges and sponsorship money has come in, if you still need to send in your sponsorship money and form  […]

The Angling Trust is set to deliver the greatest spectacle of international angling ever seen as seven England teams and five World Champions come together at Barston Lakes on Saturday May 16th to help raise funds for the England Veterans and Anglers with Disabilities team. The five 2008 gold Medal individual winners attending are Will […]

Officials from the Angling Trust and the European Anglers’ Alliance met today with Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg at the European Commission in Brussels to discuss the review of the Common Fisheries Policy and to raise concerns about the proposed regulation of Europe’s 10 million recreational sea anglers. Joe Borg said at the meeting, and in […]

GARBOLINO SPRING CLASSIC     MAY 18th to 21st  White Acres is excited to confirm the details for this new festival that was announced earlier in the year, this new festival for 2009 will be held over four days on Trewaters and Acorn with each angler fishing each lake in rotation and all results counting. Acorn is […]

Mark Stevens an industrial radiographer from Tipton has won the fourth qualifier of PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania at Octoplus Boldings in Bridgnorth on Saturday 25th April and is now in with a chance of receiving the jackpot £25,000. On a day that started showery with a cold easterly wind, expectations for the sort of weights […]

IRELAND’S match fishing in Ireland is growing and so is the amount prize money. This year there will be around £340,000 paid out from sponsorship, the return of entry fees and optional pools. And yet the money isn’t the biggest attraction – it is the extraordinary consistency of the fishing and the famous Irish ‘craic’ […]

Half a million UK recreational sea anglers will hear next week if the EU will ration how many fish they can take home for the family supper. A delegation from the Angling Trust will meet Dr. Joe Borg, the EU fisheries commissioner, in Brussels at 10 a.m. on Tuesday April 28, to persuade him it […]

That’s the potentially life-saving message from electricity bosses after an engineer was called to Pittington, County Durham, to remove fishing line from live high voltage power lines. A local resident told the engineer that he had seen someone practising casting close to power lines which cross a grassed area close to Coalford Lane. Head of […]

VENUE:  Phase 2 ,Dynamite Baits MakinsDATE:  23 April 2009RESULT1st Danny ROSS  Wykin AC    50 lb 6 oz2nd Dave KENT  Long Eaton Victoria AS  49 lb 14 oz3rd John ADAMSON Kobra Feeders   29 lb 12 ozNumber of pegs: 18 Report:The top two were the same two anglers as on the previous week’s Thursday Kobra Affordable Open, (held on Dynamite Makins Phase 2) although this week […]

Did a large catfish attack a teenager in a German lake? Did a school of piranha eat flesh down to the bone of a busload of passengers that crashed in an Amazonian river? Over the ages, yarns have been spun that fish have actually preyed on man.  These legends have found their way into literature, […]

Simeone Palli won’t ever know the weight of this magnificent pike because he wanted to return it quickly, but accepted weight for measurement scales place it at well over 50lb. The fish measured 118cm long and had a massive 96cm girth, putting the big girl at exactly 52lb – that would be way over the […]