Tench (tinca tinca) Weight: Any tench over 7lb is a specimen and a double figure fish is the fish of a lifetime, with only a few caught each season. It’s said that to work out the size of the biggest female in a water you can double the size of the biggest male. British record: […]
Tench
Grayling
European Grayling (Thymallus thymallus) Weight: Small fish of between 8oz and 1lb are often taken by anglers fishing the upper reaches of Britain’s rivers for roach and dace. A grayling over 1lb is seen by many as a good fish, and a 2lb-plus fish is a real specimen on many venues. However there are a […]
Pike
Pike (Esox lucius) Weight: Small fish up to 1lb are caught often by accident with fish weighing between 3lb and 8lb normally providing the average sport for predator anglers. On venues where there’s a constant stream of food fish, pike will grow to 20lb and on venues such as trout stocked reservoirs the predator will […]
Perch
Perch (Perca fluviatilis) Weight: Shoals of small perch of a few ounces often pester anglers and a fish taken between 1lb and 2lb is seen as a good catch. On venues where there are large populations of small species like minnows, gudgeon and small rudd, specimen fish of 3lb-plus are seen as a real specimen […]
Crucian Carp
Crucian Carp (carassius carassius) Weight: Due to tendency to hybridise, the crucian record list has been ‘purged’ and only two waters in the UK are accepted as having true crucians by the British Record Fish Committee. These are Marsh Farm at Surrey and Summer Pit at Yateley in Hampshire. There are certainly plenty of other […]
Bream
Common (Bronze) Bream (Abramis brama)Weight: Younger fish of up to 2lb are silver in colour and are commonly known as skimmers, but once they mature they take on the familiar brown colouring. Fish between 5lb and 8lb from both stillwaters and rivers is seen as a good catch with low double-figure fish a bonus. Bream […]
Barbel
The Life Cycle Spawning GroundsBarbel are odd as British coarse fish go. They lay their eggs in gravel, perhaps even digging a nest like a salmon or trout. They produce quite big eggs, 2-3 mm in diameter, like a trout and twice the size of a carp egg. Each female (big fish are always female) […]
Take A Friend Fishing
‘Take a friend fishing’www.takeafriendfishing.co.ukPRIZE WINNERS WEEK ENDING 29TH JULY1. Matt Carter- Map Lumphammer 14.5 metre Carp Pole.2. Martin Dawes- Map Matchtek 11 Power Feeder. 3. David Burton- Wychwood Rapier Carp Rod. 4. Lee Ellis- Wychwood Big Pit 70 Fishing Reel.5. Neil Fennell- Daiwa Sweepfire Spinning Reel.Here are the names of those lucky Anglers who took the time to share with […]
Shakespeare Superleague
A new five-match individual winter league sponsored by Shakespeare with some excellent cash prizes has been booked for the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham, kicking off in November. Subject to a full entry, which can be expected, the Shakespeare Superleague will see the top six at the end of the series walk away with £1200, £1000, […]
Hankat’s back
The popular HanKat AS Teams Of Three league will be fished on some of the top canals in the Birmingham area.It’s limited to 30 teams and at the time of writing 20 places have already been taken including four Shakespeare teams, four under the WB Clarke banner and two from Maver Tipton. The dates for […]
Calling lady anglers!
Evesham Festival organiser Dave Harrell is on the lookout for competitive lady anglers who fancy having a crack at the big August event. Dave has booked Sunday August 19th for the Shakespeare Ladies Championships at Hampton Ferry, Evesham and there are still a few places available. “I really want to raise the profile of the […]
2008 Fish ‘O’ Mania Dates
The dates and venues for the PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania XV qualifiers have now been announced. Qualifiers 5th April, Viaduct Fishery, Somerset 12th April, Witherington Farm Lakes, Salisbury 16th April, Barford Lakes, Norwich 23rd April, Monk Lakes, Kent 26th April, Eye Kettleby Lakes, Melton Mowbray 3rd May, Tunnel Barn Farm, Warwickshire 10th May, Woodlands Lakes, […]
New venue for Division Two National
The NFA Division Two National has been rescheduled after exceptional rainfall this summer. The match was originally scheduled for the River Trent on Saturday 1st September but flood conditions have forced this to change. In many cases dangerous conditions has meant no work has been carried out on pegs and accesses by the controlling clubs. […]
Poole Bay Small Boat Angling Club Competition
Poole Bay Small Boat Angling Clubwww.pbsbac.co.uk Annual Open boat fishing competitionSunday 2nd December 2007Baiter Park Poole£1000 Cash Prizes£2000 Prize tableWinners will be judged on a best specimen basis(Only 1 fish of any species per angler eligible for weigh in which is at least 50% of the specimen weight)Entry fee £15- Free parking and launch at BaiterOptional […]
Loades of pike trouble
Pike anglers are at the forefront of the fight to save Cambridgeshire’s ancient loades.These historic waterways, probably of Roman origin are in a “new” plan bythe National Trust to extend the Wetlands of Wicken Fen. This will involvelowering the Lodes, thus transforming them into internal drainage ditches.PAC liaison officer Dennis Moules said: “We successfully fought […]
