A very strong field made their way to Messingham Sands Fishery in North Lincs on Wednesday 29th May 2013 for the Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier match, and with no less than seven previous champions in attendance, and a host of grand finalists taking part this all looked like it would be a hard fought round.Following […]

Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery is holding a random pairs match in memory of Jenny Hamlington and departed friends of the Midlands venue.   Jenny and Mike built the fishery together over the years from a small pond which became the Bottom Pool, to the complex that you see today. The cost for the Tuesday July 9th […]

Heavy rain overnight and pretty cold conditions all day helped to make this a hard match for most of the anglers at the tenth Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier held at Barford Lakes, Norwich on Saturday 18th May . It was Andrew Leathers lucky day, the Hotrods angler was a reserve and got a ticket on […]

John Bushell is running a teams-of-three match at Arrow Valley Lakes in Redditch in August with a prize of £600 for the winning outfit if a full quota of 18 teams enter.   Entry is £100 all-in for the August 10th event, with a 9am draw at the Arrow Valley Visitor Centre and prizes going […]

The Angling Trust Stillwater Champs is underway and the first round at Boddington on Sunday saw a cold wind push the fish well out into the reservoir, making fishing difficult. There were a couple of good weights though – in fact the top three all came from the natural bank pegs 90-99 – and topping […]

June sees the second running of the Swann Baits Festival at Barston, won last year by Lee Richards. The event will be fished at the popular Solihull water over three days – the 18th-20th of June – with organiser Craig Casemore looking to fill 60 pegs to guarantee daily payouts of £300 for first in […]

Simon Fry has set a new match record at Maver Larford lakes with a 344-11-0 bag of carp and F1s from the Stourport venue’s Match Lake, caught during the two-day Maver Classic. As soon as he arrived at his peg Simon could see fish moving in the margins, and that’s where he pole-fished from start […]

Ticket sales for the ninth annual running of the Ivan Marks Memorial Match are going exceptionally well but there are still a few pegs left in the draw bag for either day of the two-day event which caters for 200 anglers in total. Anglers can fish on both days if they book now. 80% of […]

Early morning rain soon cleared to leave a bight windy day for the 130 anglers in this latest Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier at Monk Lakes on Wednesday 8th May 2013.Pegged over the four match lakes, plus Bridges Lake, the word on the morning was that not very many wanted to draw Bridges. Chertsy angler Perry […]

The second round of the popular Barston Masters produced a tight finish and was notable also for a 20lb-plus carp being landed. That fish, a common carp going 21lb, which is a huge fish to be caught in a match, saw Wayne Colloff take 59lb 14oz to the scales, but it wasn’t quite enough as […]

A brand new competition, which will carry the biggest ever individual river competition first prize of £10,000, plus more big main list and section cash prizes in the final gets underway in July. RiverFest 2013 is the brainchild of river expert Dave Harrell who has been working closely with the Angling Trust to put the […]

The Warwickshire Avon around Barford is hosting a three-day summer festival in July with all 104 pegs on the Barford AA stretch reserved for the event, even though the maximum number of anglers who can fish is 48. Fishing will be from noon to 5pm with the result based on section points. It’s £100 to enter, […]

Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery in Warwick, the host to the sixth Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier had recently been fishing well with weights of over 150 lbs being needed to win many of the open matches.Many thought it would be difficult on Saturday 27th April 2013, due to the change in the weather conditions, with hail, […]