Author: old-admin
How To Stop Spod Spill
Dave Lane explains how you can make sure bait doesn’t fall out when you are spodding. ONE aspect of spodding that tends to be overlooked a lot is the elimination of ‘spod spill’. This is where, just after you cast your loaded spod out, a shower of bait from the top of the spod rains […]
Anything But Carp: Perch
The Pride Of The Valleys Pics: Steve Martin Pssst… Do you want to know a secret? Not many people know this. But there is something very special hiding away in your local stocked pool, something very special indeed. Now, with the nights drawing in, the leaves falling and the temperatures dropping it’s time to get […]
The River Severn at Shrewsbury
THE River Seven at Shrewsbury is, quite simply, a magnificent place. The venue has been attracting match and pleasure anglers alike from all over the country for many years. Each season, between October and March, there are open matches organised every Saturday, which regularly attract from 50 to 70 anglers. The stretch that is used […]
Jon Arthur’s Match Fishing Questions And Answers
Q1 Doing all these magazine features obviously helps you pick tips up very quickly. If you didn’t do all these features do you think you would be an average angler? I think if I did all those features I would be a much better angler myself, as you are up to date with all the […]
Lake Guri Tackle Busters
Lake Guri: Venezuala’s Best-Kept Secret By Steve Townson www.amazon-angler.com I travel all around the world to get my fishing fix and as I am a roving, fish-mad, action-seeking sportsangler and wildlife fanatic, I love nothing better than heading up some undiscovered jungle river or hidden lake in search of crazy, wild fish. I was invited […]
Chocolate-brown Blackwater
Tim Smith and myself, along with other selected members of the angling press, had been invited over to Ireland for a spot of small-water competition fishing. Tim had other things to attend to, so he said (I actually think the whole thought of competition freaked him out), so he couldn’t make it. However, I managed […]
Worm Fishing On Canals
Paul Boothby of Maver, on fishing chopped worm on canals WORMS are the most natural of all baits and the beauty of fishing them on canals is that if there are any bonus fish in the area, they often find it hard to resist a well-presented wriggler. If you know a stretch of canal where […]
Hemp And Tare Fishing
Presenting The Hook Bait When fishing seed on the hook, tcf advises fishing the pole if you have one, as it will allow you to fish the fine tackle that will see you achieve the most bites and allow you to present the bait correctly. What you should be doing is fishing a rig with […]
Carp Fishing In Weed
Carp love feeding in weed during the height of summer, but what rigs should you use? Yateley ace Steve Fantauzzi has the answers… A LOT of carp anglers hate fishing in and around weed. I don’t know why, because I love it. I love it for one very good reason – most weed contains a […]
In conversation with John Raison
Dave Harrell: I can’t remember exactly which year it was when I came here to fish the first invitation match you organised after you bought the venue. I do recall, though, playing and eventually losing a huge stillwater salmon that was well into double figures! Tell us about how Gold Valley came about… John Raison: […]
Happy Days At Hawksbatch
I’d been intending to do a feature on the River Severn for a while, so when my original plans for the day fell though I decided on a ‘home’ draw and headed for the KDAA’s Hawksbatch stretch a mile or so upstream of Bewdley. Lots of the pegs at Bewdley are good for both silver […]
Bag ‘Em New Micro Fluoro Pop Ups
The borders between carp and match fishing get ever more blurred and there’s no doubt that in the right circumstances boilies are an excellent hook bait on commercials. The main difference is that while the big fish boys are often trying to avoid smaller fish and thus use big hook baits, match anglers often want […]
Consistent At The Bowl
Bishops Bowl Lakes is into the fourth round of its new winter league and sport is proving very consistent, with good, fair match fishing. Andy Pell won this round from Peg 2 on Marches Lake, fishing pole and pellet for 32-14-0 of small carp and tench. Winner on White Bishop Lake was Mark Williams, who […]
Coombe Predators Showing
If you prefer predator fishing on stillwaters, a little birdie tells me Coombe Abbey in Coventry has been running into some decent pike form, with fish to 22lb banked in the last fortnight. Coombe is of course also noted for its zander fishing – indeed the Binley day ticket water one of the best venues […]
Bites At Meadowlands
Meadowlands Fishery produced another good match midweek, with the top five in the Warren Pool Tuesday open all weighing in over 28lb. Lane’s Bait’s Wayne Sharman topped the field, fishing the straight lead on the arm at peg 14 for 46-12-2.On peg 33 Ray Durrant fished the same way for 39-8-0 for second spot, just […]
