Dance teacher Michelle Langston struck a blow for the lady anglers out there by bagging a new rainbow trout record for the Great Lake at Patshull Park Fishery… and incredibly it was her first ever fish of any kind! Michelle, who teaches dance at Wolverhampton Girls High School and the Kings Church of England School […]
Michelle’s First Fish Is A Record
Ravensthorpe Hosts Young England Hopefuls
Ravensthorpe Reservoir is still producing a rod average of nearly five, with buzzers really coming into their own. Fishery experts are advising fishing buzzers ‘under the bung’ at depths between two and ten feet, with some anglers reporting catches of up to 20 fish in a session. Black olives with red cheeks and olive buzzers […]
Carp To 27lb At Drayton Reservoir
Drayton Reservoir’s carp have really woken up with bailiff Mark Ryder reporting some stunning bags of double-figure fish. One angler banked no less than 1000lb of carp in one 24-hour session, including five over the 20lb mark, topped by a fish of 27lb 2oz. He had over 100 carp in all, all of them falling […]
Match Fishing Fun At Manor Farm Fishery As Hobbs Comes Out On Top
The five-day Manor Farm Festival attracted 65 anglers to the Harvington complex and produced a great result, with a different winner every day. Monday’s event saw local rod Martin Ludlow draw peg 22 on Ash Pool where he fished pole and pellet for 139-12-0 to take an early lead. On Tuesday, peg 3 on Middle […]
Richards Through To Match This Final
Lee Richards is the latest angler through to the big money Maver Match This final after the qualifier at Moorlands Farm. The consistent Birmingham matchman drew peg 55 on Meadow Pool where he had to chop and change his pellet and meat lines to keep fish coming for a 109-1-0 total, to beat Coventry’s Jon […]
River Teme Barbel Teach In
The Barbel Society is running a two-day teach-in on the River Teme in July. Open to all comers, the courses will cover rigs, baiting strategies, fish handling, location, watercraft and swim selection on the picture-postcard River Severn tributary noted for its exciting barbel sport. It’s £20 per head which covers two days of fishing and […]
Gold for UK shore anglers….
The Angling Trust are pleased to announce that the Sea Anglers Match Federation (SAMF) have won the gold medal at the World Shore Angling Championships for Clubs with a very impressive 15 points over the four day event. The team representing SAMF were; Malcolm Stote, Stephen Durrant, Mark Pinder, Andy Gallagher, Bill Lindfield and Alan […]
National Boat Championships Gets July Date
The Angling Trust National Boat competition two day open boat species challenge will be fished from Minehead, Somerset, on the 30th and 31st July. Places will be limited to 32 anglers on a first come first served basis with a closing date of the 31st May 2011. The competition HQ will again be the Ship Aground Public […]
Clean Up On River Lugg
On Tuesday 10th May, Angling Trust and Fish Legal staff from the Leominster office collected 11 bags of rubbish from 2 miles of the River Lugg in Leominster, as part of a project organised by the Lugg and Arrow Fisheries Association to spring clean 100 miles of this Herefordshire river, which joins the River Wye […]
Tight Lines Friday 20th May
Friday 20th May 7:00pm Sky Sports 3Repeated: 10:00pm Sky sports 2Sat. 1:30am Sky Sports 24:00am Sky Sports 38:00am Sky Sports 3 Keith’s guest will be specialist angler Gary Newman. A well known journalist and big-fish expert, Gary will be sharing his approach to catching different specimens at this time of year. If you’ve got a question […]
Local Angler Shane Atkin Joins Fish ‘O’ Mania 2011 Final Line Up
It fell to the well established Maple Lake to come up with the goods at the eighth Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier at the Oaks Fishery on Saturday 14th May 2011. Local angler and Oaks regular Shane Atkin, a Carer from Billingham in Cleveland took full advantage from peg 67 to take 28k 500gm, to become […]
Gripper Wins With Wolffish
Kings Lynn angler Stephen Collingridge included this brace of pre-historic looking 13lb wolffish in his team’s winning bag in the first Skipper’s Challenge run out of Andorja in the Troms area of northern Norway. The Royal Mail angler, known to mates as ‘Gripper’, fished alongside skipper Ray Martin, who runs the ‘Shady Lady 2’ out […]
Has North-East Got Angling Talent?
North East Region Invites Young Anglers to take part in the Talent Initiative The Angling Development Board (ADB) has launched three new pilot angling development programmes to prepare youngsters for taking part in county and regional competitions and training programmes. The pilot will run in the North East, North West and West Midlands to improve the […]
Mega Match This will be a resounding success
As more and more interest grows in the new match fishing competition, Mega Match This, the stakes continue to get higher and one lucky winner will walk away with a significant amount of money from the biggest prize money final in UK coarse angling. The qualifiers are being held over a number of venues across […]
Andover angler wins at Monk Lakes Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier
David George (Browning Andover MG), a Projects Manager from Andover was the latest winner to qualifier for a place to compete in the Fish ‘O’ Mania final in July at Cudmore Fisheries. David had a good day’s fishing with his catch consisting of carp, barbel and F1s taken on corn pole fished in the margins. […]
