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Mosella Moorlands Farm March 31st

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]