Wednesday Open – 23.03.05 – 12 Fished on Meadow1st Pete Wellington (Moorlands) 70.12.0 Peg 112nd Colin Bennett (Worcester) 34.13.0 Peg 133rd Dave Highfield (Moorlands) 31.15.0 Peg 56 Thursday Cost Cutter – 24.03.05 – 26 Fished on Meadow1st Mick Keene (Pheonix Shrewsbury) 113.15.0 Peg 82nd Ivan Laight (National Standard) 75.9.0 Peg 573rd Mark Tooze (SBS) 71.15.0 Peg […]
Mosella Moorlands Farm March 31st
Tuna could become more ‘almost as common as cod’ around our coastline
ONE of Britain‘s leading marine scientists has warned that a minor change in temperature of the seas off the north-west coast of Scotland and the rest of the UK is having a dramatic effect on traditional marine life.The once-thriving cod stocks, depleted by over-fishing, are being replaced by tuna, red mullet, horse mackerel, pilchard, squid, john […]
British bream record goes
THE big news this week is that the British bream record has been smashed with a monster of nearly 20lb (yes TWENTY POUNDS!) from a stillwater in Cambridgeshire.The historic 19lb 10oz fish was taken by carp angler James Rust, who took it in darkness at long range on a single grain of fake maize over […]
Don’t forget your new licence
REMEMBER that your rod licence runs out on March 31st, so don’t be an April Fool and forget to pick up a new one before your next trip.Anyone aged 12 years or over is required by law to carry a rod licence. The money is used by the Environment Agency to maintain our fisheries.The fee […]
Match Fishing magazine
MATCH FISHING – APRIL ISSUE THIKING OUT LOUDWhat goes through Will Raisons head during a match? Match Fishing gets inside the mind of Englands youngest international angler to discover the answers SO YOU WANT TO FISH FOR ENGLAND?England co-manager Mark Downes tells all about another important tema method – the whip. CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCKMatch […]
Sherwood Forest Farm Fishery March 24th
The spring weather has got the fish feeding on all lakes, but the Sherwood and the Holmedale are really on top form. Several pleasure nets – 35lb have been recorded on the Sherwood lake fishing pole and pellet for bream and skimmers – 3lb, plus tench – 2lb, and roach – 1lb on caster, road side […]
Forum Posting Guideline Amendments – PLEASE READ
After a meeting with the site hosts last week, it was mentioned by Grey Matter (now ICO Solutions) that due to the amount of traffic the Total-Fishing.com site recieves, other sites hosted by Grey Matter are suffering as an effect of this. This has a negative effect on the Total-Fishing.com site itself as well in that the […]
Sherwood Forest Farm Fishery March 21st
Holmedale Lake Wednesday 16/3/05 18 fished 1st Pete Ellis Sherwood Forest Fishery 48 47-6-0 2nd Dave Madin Mossella Ultimate Anglers 26 44-8-0 3rd John Darby Sherwood Forest Fishery 24 38-8-0 4th Rob Ward Sherwood Forest Fishery 22 29-15-0 5th Pete Hodgetts Sherwood Forest Fishery 33 22-3-0 6th John Lilliman Sherwood Forest Fishery 32 16-11-0 The first sign […]
Total Sea Fishing
Total Sea Fishing May 2005 EditorialWelcome to the May issue of TSF. I’ve got to kick off by admitting that I was really disappointed with what happened at the 11th British Open Beach Champs this month. On the Saturday, one crazy angler from the southwest decided that he could get away with trying to weigh in a […]
Why cut Fish on Five?
Mark Thompson Director GeneralBBCTelevision CentreWood LaneLondon W12 16th March 2005 Dear Mr Thompson Whilst I understand that the BBC has had to rationalise and make 15% cutbacks, we cannot understand why these cutbacks should include 100% of your dedicated national angling programming. Cancelling Radio Five Live’s Fish on Five show will deprive many of the UK’s three million […]
Mosella Moorlands Farm March 17th, 2005
Fishery manager and top, top angler, Mal Watson (mobile: 07966 890086), who fishes for Daiwa Gordon League, reckons his worms will be working well come the end of March … lucky Mal to have more than one! Two to three pints of casters and half-a-pint of Dendras is the bait requirement for a bag-up session. […]
Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm March 16th
Graham, who runs the on-site tackle shop (tel: 01926 842188) along with match ace Pete Rice, will take your open match bookings on that number and supply anglers with top quality bait and the very best info. Graham is ‘in house’ during March and April, as House Pool 2 (39 pegs) warms up, both in […]
New director for the ACA
THE Anglers’ Conservation Association (ACA) has appointed Mark Lloyd as its new executive director. It says this will enable the ACA to forge ahead with planned changes in its operations to become even more effective in making polluters pay for their actions. Mark has been chief executive of Thames 21, a water-based environmental charity he helped found […]
Mosella Moorlands Farm March 16th
Monday Cost Cutter – 07.03.05 – 10 Fished Silver1st Mark Morris (Moorlands) 19.7.0 Peg 72nd Paul Webley (Bears) 16.5.0 Peg 343rd Jason Cowan (Team Ave It) 13.13.0 Peg 13 Thursday Cost Cutter – 10.03.05 – 22 Fished Meadow1st Colin Pace (Bilston) 67.12.0 Peg 132nd Roger Finch (Dudley Bait & Tackle) 52.3.0 Peg 483rd Paul Foster (Blackheath) […]
Cormorant update…
FOLLOWING the change of policy with regard to the control of cormorants announced by Minister, Ben Bradshaw last September there has been a marked increase in the number of licences to kill offending birds.From 1st July 2004 to 25th January 2005 Defra have granted 259 licences to kill 1748 birds. This compares with the same period […]