Dominant Daiwa Dorking rounded off the year with their forth major team success on Nottingham’s Newark Dyke on 24th/25th September 2011. Their emphatic victory over 9 of Britain’s top teams has surely guaranteed their number one UK status.This World Club qualifier is now in its second year and is made up of teams finishing in […]
Dominant Dorking Take Preston Innovations World Club Classic Qualifier
Giant Ravensthorpe Rainbow
Highlight of the week of trout fishing at Ravensthorpe is the capture of a whopping 14lb 2oz rainbow trout to Andy Kress. Andy was out fishing with his son and a friend only 100m from the lodge when he managed to tempt the fish, which is just 6oz short of this season’s best. The fish […]
Huggins Wins British Waterways Stillwater Champs 2011
Low water levels at Boddington Reservoir forced organisers to move the British Waterways Stillwater Championships to Blythe Waters at Solihull, and with high winds blowing competitors were apprehensive. However, the top three anglers all weighed in over 37lb with Dynamite Baits Backed Sean Huggins taking the £3,000 top prize thanks to a 55-7-0 bag from […]
Mellings Is Midland Angler Of The Year 2011
Wayne Mellings is the 2011 Midland Angler Of The Year after posting a perfect two-point scorecard at Solihull’s Barston Lakes. The competition, which was set up by Total-Fishing.com’s Gareth Purnell up with fishery owner Nigel Harrhy some nine years ago when he was editor of Midland Angler magazine, sees 40 top anglers fishing two matches […]
Fish ‘O’ Mania 2012 Qualifiers
The venues for the 2012 Fish O Mania competition and it’s good news for Midlands anglers with five of the 16 qualifiers taking place in the region. Moorlands Farm isn’t in the line-up this year, but Maver Larford is on May 5th, in addition to Makins Fishery on April 21st, Woodland View Fishery on April […]
Will Raison: Big Fish From Canals WATCH FOR FREE
Daiwa’s Will Raison shows how he goes about targeting quality fish from canals in the September Issue of Coarse and Match Fishing Monthly – available free to view on this website. Former world individual champion Will targets the Basingstoke Canal near Aldershot, where he targets a feature peg with corn, casters and worm for big […]
Angling Trust & British Waterways Stillwater Championship 2011
The final of this inaugural joint venture event between the Angling Trust & British Waterways Stillwater Championships was switched to Blythe Fisheries in the West Midlands from Boddington Reservoir where water levels were extremely low. Initially several of the finalists were apprehensive about the new venue but after the match many said that, given the […]
UK Champs Drama
The final round of the Preston Innovations backed UK Angling Championship saw the field head to the awesome Barston in Solihull for the finale in what has been a gripping series to date. Having taken a perfect score with three section wins in the first three rounds, Derbyshire hotshot Jason LeBosquet went into the home […]
The Pike Anglers Club Annual Convention
What will this winter bring on the pike fishing front..? That’s going to be the main topic for debate on Saturday, October 1, as predator anglers from across the UK converge on Kettering for the Pike Anglers Club’s annual convention.The weather forecasts might look dire – but you don’t catch ’em sitting at home. And […]
E.P.F.C European Police Championships 2012 Ireland
The European Freshwater fishing Championships for 2012 will be held at Lough Muckno in Castleblaney Co Monaghan Ireland. The National police force of An Garda Siochana will host the event with the assistance of local clubs Lough Muckno Coarse angling club along with South Armagh and Dist League. It will be conducted under the patronage […]
Tight Lines Friday 23rd September
Friday 23rd September 6:00pm Sky Sports 4Repeated: Sat. 1:00am Sky Sports 34:00am Sky Sports 36:00am Sky Sports 3 With the focus on specialist carp fishing Keith will be joined in the bothy by well-respected tackle and bait consultant Brian Skoyles. If you’ve got a question for them please send it in via an e-mail to […]
New Dick Walker Book OUT NOW
Dear Walker FanI’m delighted to inform you of a new Dick Walker book, Fishing With Walker, and a special offer available only to Walker fans. Fishing With Walker contains articles from Fishing magazine and Angling Times – none of which have appeared in book form before. There are sections on all the major species and […]
New TV Series For Matt Hayes
Midlands TV celebrity Matt Hayes has been signed up by the Discovery Channel to host a new 24-hour Rod Race series due for screening in the spring. Matt will be set a challenge at the start of each episode and the cameras will follow his quest. Meanwhile Fishing TV is now available on iphones and […]
Match This Final Set To Be Bigger in 2012
Maver UK boss Phil Briscoe is pledging to make the 2012 Match This series bigger and better after personally guaranteeing that it paid out the biggest prize in match fishing this year – £50,000 to the winner. Phil, who runs the Larford Lakes complex that staged the final, has secured a two-year deal with the […]
Two New Winter Matches At Makins
Makins Fishery is launching brand new silver fish and team series in the run up to Christmas. The Silver Fish League will run over four matches starting November 5th, with Lagoon, Lizard and Lake one all in line to be used. Owner Alan McDiarmid is also changing his popular teams of 12 series to a […]
