Guide Sidney Kennedy was driving around a stillwater on the Lee system in Ireland’s beautiful County Cork  when he saw a shoal of bait fish scatter at the edge of a reedbed. Quick as a flash he parked up, cast out his fly gear with an imitation frog hopper lure on the end, and found himself […]

Chay Jackson’s new Warwickshire fishery, Jersey Wood, is opening its doors for the first time this weekend as a new Academy of Angling. The unveiling of the five-lake venue at the ever-popular Hoar Park Craft Village near Ansley includes half price day tickets, a ‘kids go free’ offer, 10% off academy coursed booked and it’s […]

The prolonged cold weather has led to another tough week on the area’s main commercial fisheries with no ton-up match weights and not many winning bags over 50lb either. The most consistent fishery has been Moorlands Farm, which produced the top weight of the week in the shape of a 94-13-0 bag of F1s to […]

Ireland’s ‘Fish of the Week’ is this super 31lb pike which came from one of the small loughs around Shercock in County Cavan. Regular pike angler Brian McDonnell legered half a mackerel for the fish, which the Dublin angler returned. http://www.fishinginireland.info/news/