Category: Coarse Fishing News

English Pike Record

Meet the biggest pike ever landed in England – all 46lb 11oz of it.  The massive fish was taken at Wykeham Lakes in Yorkshire by Scarborough angler Wyndon Coole and is just two ounces off the long standing British best of 46lb 13oz taken at iconic Llandegfedd Lakes in South Wales by Ray Lewis in […]

Muskie Record Beaten Twice In Two Days

Two potential world record musky have been and released in the St. Lawrence River, only two days apart. Michael Forjohn, of Ambier, Pennsylvania, landed an enormous 130 cm muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) on December 2nd, while trolling a Swim Wizz lure in the St. Lawrence River, near Clayton, New York. Once hooked up, Forjohn needed only six minutes […]

Biggest River Pike Of The Season

Caption: Nathan Edgell shows off the biggest river pike caught in the UK in 2013 so far at 34lb 10oz.Pic: Angler’s MailPike season is upon us in the UK with a couple of really big girls reported. Nathan Edgell snaffled the biggest river pike of 2013 with this 34lb 10oz beauty, the Dorset angler using […]

Huge Pike From Rutland Water

Rutland Water has produced its biggest pike for ages during the Anglian Water venues official pike trials. Polish angler Artu Brzozowski was fishing for zander with a 15cm Shad over a deep water area when the 33lb 4oz fish took. It measured 114cm long. PIKE FISHING WITH ANGLIAN WATER

Grant Takes On Shatterford Lakes

Top Midlands open match angler Grant Albutt is taking on the running of one of the best waters in the region in Shatterford Lakes. The six-lake venue, which was established in 1972, is situated in a valley on the Bridgnorth Road only 10 minutes from Kidderminster and Stourbridge and is noted for offering great sport all […]

Great October Sport At Portumna

Mike Murray of Murray’s Angling Services reports that the past couple of weeks have provided fantastic sport in Portumna both on The Shannon and Lough Derg. Huge shoals of roach, hybrids, bream and perch have been congregating between the Salmon Run and the entrance to Lough Derg. Pike  are shadowing the shoals and silverfish anglers […]

Stop Using Eels As Pike Bait

With the approach of the traditional ‘pike season’ in the UK, the National Anguilla Club has issued a plea to predator anglers to stop using eels as pike bait. Laws are already in place to protect the species – it is an offence to remove them from freshwater, from estuaries and from any inshore waters […]