With only weeks to go before the end of the season the biggest rainbow of the year has been landed at Rutland Water – a superb fish of 9lb 12oz to local angler Roy Bartram. Roy, who lives at Edith Weston, virtually on the doorstep of Rutland Water, was bank fishing with Upppingham’s Ady Naylor. The […]
9lb 12oz Rainbow From Rutland
Dunlop Sign Robson Green To Front Fishing Brand
Dunlop is moving into the fishing equipment market and has signed up Extreme Fishing’s Robson Green to front its new range. The agreement will see Green’s image used across all promotional materials including packaging and point of sale material whilst the actor will also advise on product development as the range evolves and expands.Dunlop is […]
Meadowlands Christmas Open
Meadowlands Fishery’s annual Christmas match has been booked for Sunday December 16th. The venue has been fishing well despite the recent cold snap, with 50 pegs set aside on Lambsdown and Warren Pools. The draw takes place at 8.30am with fishing from 10.15am to 3.15pm and prizes dished out at the nearby Blacksmith Arms afterwards. […]
River Tame Barbel Record Beaten
The six-year-old River Tame barbel record has been beaten with a 14lb 8oz fish from the Tamworth area. Damian Jones adopted a mobile approach on the venue, fishing legered fishmeal boilies on a 12lb braided hooklength to set a new personal best as he beat the long standing river best of 13lb 10oz, set by […]
It’s Elementary For Watson
An Over 50s match at Moorlands Farm produced the biggest winning margin anyone can remember for years at the Kidderminster complex, fishery manager Mal Watson topping the field by over 140lb! Mal, who has been on a brilliant run of form, having also won three recent events in a row with 56-4-0, 78-0-0 and 90-4-0, […]
Five Midlands Qualifiers For Fish O Mania 2013
There are five Midlands qualifiers for the 2013 Fish ‘O’ Mania competition, which is now in its second decade. The entry process will open at 9am on Tuesday January 15th. The dates for the diary are Bolding Pools (April 13th); Makins Fishery (April 17th); Tunnel Barn Farm (April 27th); Larford Lakes (4th May) and Woodland […]
100kg Catfish from The River Po Italy
It was one of those nights that many anglers hope, pray and believe will one day become a reality… But let us start at the beginning: November 2012, the Rhino Black Cat guided tours on the middle reaches of the Po in Italy are in full swing. As is so often the case, the starting […]
Politicians speak their minds on angling’s issues…
Angling Trust secures strong political support on bass, cormorants, hydropower, unlimited canoe access and a new Charter for Angling.Angling Trust campaigns chief and ex-MP Martin Salter went back to the party political conferences to make the case for fishing and to take the political temperature on the issues that are important to anglers. He came […]
Duncan Charman: Evolution of An Angler
Big fish specialist Duncan Charman will be launching his new book – ‘Evolution of An Angler’ – at the Carp Society’s Carp Show on Sat 1st and Sunday 2nd December at Sandown Racecourse. Duncan, who is star of Fishing TV’s ‘The Session’ series, will be signing limited edition copies at the show and at Yateley […]
Humungus Rutland Rainbow
Rutland Water has produced its biggest rainbow trout of the season – this 8lb 12oz beauty. The fish came from the Leicestershire venue’s South Arm and fell to the rod of season ticket holder Des Welch, who was boat fishing with Rick Broome. Des fished a sinking line with a black Booby Humungus.
Quality Roach For Packington Somers
Midlands day ticket water Packington Somers Fishery has been stocked with an extra 1,000lb of big roach from the venue’s trout lakes. This is the time of year when it’s safest to move fish and on finding a healthy stock of quality roach plus some tench during repair work at one of the venue’s trout […]
New Match Record For Rice At Tunnel Barn Fish Turn To Cheddar
Ronnie Biggs has been stealing a march on his rivals at Tunnel Barn, using cheese hook baits to great effect. The bait may be more associated with fishing for chub and barbel on rivers, but Ronnie has found the Shrewley venue’s F1s, carp and hybrids all have a taste for cheddar and he proved the […]
Tunnel Barn Incentive For Angling Clubs
Tunnel Barn Fishery has a new offer for angling clubs out there – any club that books four or more matches will get a fifth date free of charge. The Shrewley complex has also announced its Christmas match schedule with a Santa Special Open on Christmas Eve with £100 added to the prize find kicking […]
Christmas Matches At Moorlands Farm
Moorlands Farm Fishery has announced its Christmas match schedule with special fur and feather events on Thursday December 20th and Saturday 22nd, with the fishery closing then until Boxing Day. The complex then welcomes in 2013 with a New Year’s Day Open – more details on www.moorlands-farm.co.uk .
Winter Common Record For Summers
Monument Fishery has a new common carp record after West Midlands based engineer Ian Summers slipped the landing net under a magnificent fish weighing 43lb 14oz. While other anglers around spodded out big beds of maggots, Ian stuck to a more conservative feeder approach over a bar at 60 yards to keep disturbance to a […]
