A seven-year-old angler has broken the Scottish grayling record after catching a huge specimen from the country’s river Clyde. At a weight of 3lb 10oz, the impressive fish smashes the previous best for the species, caught from the river Tweed, by over 8oz. The overjoyed captor, young Sam Thomson from Forth, south Lanarkshire, tempted his […]
Scottish Grayling Record Broken
River Trout Fishing At Packington Somers
Packington Somers trout fishery is known for its stillwater sport, but they also run a small syndicate for fly anglers on their stretch of the River Blythe. Their water on the river is stocked with brown and rainbow trout and is open from March 15th to October 16th to trout anglers. The cost is £120, […]
Arrow Valley Lake Open Matches 2012
John Bushell has been in touch about the forthcoming series of open matches he’s running at Arrow Valley Lakes. John has just completed a successful winter series on the Redditch Water, and has now booked seven dates for Saturday open matches with the draw at 9am at Arrow Valley Visitor Centre and fishing 10.30am to […]
Cuttle Mill Fishery For Sale
Cuttle Mill Fishery near the Belfry is up for sale. The venue, which has been owned by the Higgins family since 1985, remains open as normal however and bookings are being taken as usual until the end of April and from the new season starting June 16th. Visit www.cuttle-mill.com .
Tons Start To Flow At Moorlands Farm
A sign that summer is on the way is when ton-up weights start to be recorded on the area’s commercial stillwaters. At Moorlands Farm Mal Watson registered 108-12-0 in the Wednesday Open on Bank Pool peg 17, and the following day George Reynolds won the open on Silver with 104-4-0. On Saturday the top two […]
Surprise Stillwater Barbel
Barbel have become our most popular river fish but Lee Burden has hit the angling headlines after landing a 13-pounder from a lake. The fish, one of the biggest barbel to have come from a stillwater in the UK, came from Lychgate Fisheries at Stoke Golding in Warwickshire. The 33-year-old was fishing for carp and […]
Big Fish Score For Gordon League
Midlands teams enjoyed a brilliant final of the 2012 Sensas Challenge on the Gloucester Canal, filling the top three places. The 16 team event was fished to international rules with Daiwa Gordon League winning their way through to October’s European final by five points from the two Kamasan teams from Birmingham. Gordon League know the […]
Bag’em Signs Marc Rodger
Growing bait brand Bag’em has snapped up north east matchman Marc Rodger into its talented team of sponsored anglers. Bag’em has shown tremendous growth since it was created four years ago, and has become known for the best quality baits at affordable prices. Grimsby based Marc said: “I’m absolutely delighted to be part of such […]
Angling Trust Ambassador Chris Clark to Carry Olympic Torch
2012 Bury Hill Silvers Two Day Festival
Bury Hill will be running another Spring 2 day silvers festival on the Old Lake on Tuesday and Wednesday 24th and 25th April. Cost will be £70 all in with a draw time of 8.30am, fish 10.15am to 3.15pm. All fishery rules apply breakfasts will be served from 7am onwards. In last year’s spring festival […]
Bag’em Launch New Products at ‘The Big One’
It was the annual ‘Big One’ show in Farnborough at the weekend and Bag’em joined up with Fishing Republic to launch their new products for 2012. Neil Machin was demonstrating how to use Bag’ems innovative new meat and maggot bait dyes, as well as holding a 20min seminar in the theatre.Many of the team including […]
Bag’ems Jamie Hughes Comes Second
Bag’ems Jamie Hughes came second in the Kamasan Matchman of the Year 2012 on Sunday. Andy Bennett won with 40 points just beating Jamie with 36. Jamie received a cheque for £1000, he had won the Kamasan in 2010 and was hoping to do it again! Now you can be coached by Jamie click here […]
Bag’em Matchbaits Silver League for Pairs Round 4
32 pegs – Sunday 18th March 2012 1st Barry Carr & Dean Hancox (Daventry AC) Peg14 & 33 24lb 7¾oz Orfe & Perch2nd Rich Wills & Simon Potter (Daventry AC) Peg4 & 31 16lb 15½oz Skimmers/Perch3rd Jake King & Graham Cheney(Daventry AC) Peg24 & 12 11lb 10¼oz Roach/Skimmers Sections: A1 Barry Carr (Daventry AC) Peg14 […]
Ashley Leaves It Late For Big Warwickshire Avon Barbel
It’s been very hard to catch specimen barbel on the Warwickshire Avon so far this year with the river being so low and clear. However, some rain put a tinge of colour into the waterway on the last weekend of the season persuading Ashley Burton to give them a go. And he was rewarded with […]
Evesham Qualifiers
The rivers are now closed to coarse anglers for the next three months but several qualifiers for the August Evesham Festival took place in the last days of the season. Anglers fishing the May Vince Vase had the best of the sport, finding perfect conditions with the river levels falling and a tinge of colour. […]