The Black Cat Team debuted this year at the Catfish Classics in Spain and immediately managed to win the team competition. The team was split into three squads of each two anglers and one support person: Team 1 with Ingo Kuprian, Uwe Barthel and Stefan Seuß; Team 2 with Alexander Kunert, Thomas Grabitz and Riccardo […]
Black Cat wins the World Catfish Classics
Maver ‘Match This’ – Defending Champion Qualifies
The reigning Maver ‘Match This’ Champion, Andy Power (Preston Thatchers), has qualified for this year’s event following victory at the recent Stafford Moor qualifier. After becoming the first ever person to win the £50k prize last year, the Somerset based angler will once again be in with a chance of securing the richest prize in […]
Angling Trust’s England Ladies Win Fly Fishing Silver
After winning gold medals at Llandegfedd, Wales in 2010 and Bewl Water, Kent in 2011 in the Home Internationals, The Angling Trust’s England Ladies Fly Fishing team was keen to continue this momentum and gain gold at the Lake of Menteith, Scotland on 24th May 2012 – something which has eluded them for 18 years. […]
Lots Of Tons At Moorlands Farm
Moorlands Farm responded to the hot spell over the weekend with some great fishing, with the last six matches on the Hartlebury complex all needing over 100lb to win. Top of the pile with an impressive 196-10-0 in Friday afternoon’s open was Paul Cartwright, who drew peg 17 on Bank Pool in a match which […]
Rob Wootton Wins Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery Fish O Mania
Although blistering hot conditions prevailed all day for the 130 anglers in the latest Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifying match held at Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery, Shrewley, Warwick on Saturday 26th May 2012, the weights were very impressive with seven weights over the magic ton and the lowest 10 peg section winning weight was 65 lbs […]
Ivan Marks Memorial Match Results 2012
Saturday & Sunday 19th/20th MayMallory Park Fisheries This event is in its 8th year and still has incredible support. Day One: 70 anglers fished in extremely cold conditions at the Glebe complex, rain and a bitterly cold easterly wind made the fishing tough going, but although weights were down, the match was the closest in […]
Downes Student Tamey Claims His First Match Win
Great Barr angler Carl Tamey has been having some coaching from Paul Downes and after making the jump from club match fishing to the open scene, he secured his first win in the latest Cornestone AC event on the Grand Union Canal in the city. Carl drew peg one where he fished squatt and groundbait […]
Big Moorlands Match Eel But Win Proves Slippery
Stourbridge angler Dave Gough had a shock in Sunday’s match at Moorlands Farm, when the ‘carp’ he was playing on the pole turned out to be a huge 6lb 4oz eel! Dave was fishing luncheon meat at four metres in the afternoon match on Meadow Pool peg 37; and the Kidderminster fishery has confirmed that […]
Chris Kendall Wins Latest Fish ‘O’ Mania Qualifier
153 lbs winning haul for Chris (Hatman) Kendall at Barford Lakes Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier. Fairly mild conditions greeted the competitors for the latest Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier held on Saturday 19th May 2012 at Barford Lakes Fishery, Barford, Norwich.Chris Kendall (Yorkshire Anglers), a Recruitment Consultant from Ilkley, West Yorkshire secured the 10th Fish ‘O’ […]
Jarrad Smith Claims Second Total-Fishing.com Festival
Total-Fishing.com Glebe Festival, The Glebe, Leics, Pools 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6, 7 (52 fished) Jarrad Smith became the first angler to win this annual festival twice, with a perfect two-point score over the two days. But it was mighty close, his 334-8-0 total being less than 7lb ahead of Andy Williams, who also […]
Change In Dates For Evesham Qualifiers
Due to the recent severe rain, the dates of a couple of this years Evesham Festival qualifying matches have had to change. This is to accommodate a rowing regatta that had to be cancelled due to the river being dangerously high. The two dates affected are Saturday June 30th, and Sunday July 1st. There will […]
Stu Ballard becomes 7th finalist from Fish’O’Mania qualifiers
Stu Ballard, past finalist in 2010, and a Construction Works Manager from Aldridge, West Midlands last weekend became the 7th qualifier for the 2012 Fish O Mania final. A bitterly cold north easterly wind and cloud, accompanied by occasional glimpses of sunshine greeted the competitors for the 7th of the 2012 Fish O Mania qualifiers […]
England Announces U18s and Drennan U23s Match Fishing Teams
Mark Downes and Steve Sanders, Angling Trust England Youth Managers are happy to announce the U18s and U23s World Championship teams who will be representing England in the World Championships in Radece, Slovenia on 28th and 29th July 2012. Following a successful England trial for the U23s that was held on the Gloucester canal on […]
Callum Graham Crowned World Junior Shore Angling Champion 2012
16 year old Callum Graham from Southbourne is feeling on top of the world after clinching the individual gold medal during the week-long World Junior Shore Angling Championships held in the Budva region of Montenegaro. Callum, who attends St Peters Sixth Form College in Bournemouth put in a superb performance and is a worthy winner […]
Tench Feature For Birch On Birmingham Mainline
The third round of the Mosella Black Country Teams of Three league on the Birmingham-Mainline Canal attracted a turnout of 45 anglers and a double-figure winning weight for Bruce Birch. The Four Ashes Elite angler fished chopped worm and caster at peg 11 on Clissold Street for two tench plus skimmers for an excellent 11-2-0. […]
