Rutland Water’s best Brown weighs in at 6lb 1½oz and the biggest Rainbow weighs 6lb. Fantastic rod average of 4.4 at Pitsford Water Predator fishing – Rutland, Grafham, Pitsford and Ravensthorpe Lure and dead sea bait from 1 October Please book boats to avoid disappointment www.anglianwater.co.uk/leisure Rutland Water 01780 686441; Grafham Water 01480 810531; […]

  Team Elinor excels to take 2014 Anglian Water Airflo International title Consistent two day performance earns Elinor Team Gold just 4lb ahead of Ospreys Second placed Ospreys take Silver  Welsh Hawks win Bronze Predator fishing – Rutland, Grafham, Pitsford and Ravensthorpe Lure and dead sea bait from 1 October Please book boats to avoid […]

The 30th Youth International Fly Fishing Competition was held at Grafham Water last week, pitching young fly fishers from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland against each other in a boat fishing loch-style competition. The day took place amidst a great atmosphere with many families and supporters for all of the teams arriving bedecked in flags, […]

  A plan to build a trout farm off the Cornish coast have been described as ‘absolutely barmy’, in the light of the carnage caused by last year’s storms.   According to a report in the Western Morning News the pilot scheme – led by Cefas, the BTA sand The Crown Estate, which is hoped […]

Following official figures showing the worst estimates of salmon stocks on record, a coalition of concerned angling, fisheries and conservation groups has written to Government Fisheries Minister George Eustice and to his counterpart Edwina Hart in the Welsh Assembly Government, to demand urgent implementation of a five point action plan to halt the sharp decline […]

Ireland’s Lough Corrib has produced a giant of a Ferox trout to Welsh angler Ceri Jones – this 23lb 12oz beast. The fish, the biggest Ferox ever officially weighed at west of Ireland venue, caps a long term ambition for Ceri, who has fished the water numerous times in search of a fish over the […]

Ringstead has fished even better this last week due to the weed cutting and lifting and the cooler weather. Good reports on how the weed has been managed. Local Angler, Matt Skinner from Hargrave had a beauty weighing in at 6lb. Phil Wilmott from Northampton had a limit of 21/2 lb ers. Barry Hall from […]

Tim ‘Doc’ Sullivan has won the Irish Catch of the Week with this magnificent brown trout caught on the dry fly from Ireland’s River Suir. Tom was fishing with pals Stevie Munn, Ian Gordon, Kevin Shone and Andrew Ryan were fishing the evening rise in muggy condition son the Roxborough stretch of the famous Waterford […]

Angling legend Moc Morgan has officially opened North Wales’ newest tourist destination – a visitor centre at a lake created to feed two power stations almost a century ago.Llyn Trawsfynydd is the latest to share in the £4m Snowdonia Centre of Excellence scheme – part of the EU-backed Sustainable Tourism project –  and now boasts […]

Harewood House to host CLA Game Fair 2015 We are delighted to announce the CLA Game Fair will return to Harewood House, Leeds, Yorkshire, from Friday 31st July to Sunday 2nd August 2015.  This is the 6th time the CLA Game Fair has been held at Harewood House in its 58 year history, the house with […]

Ireland’s River Screebe has produced its biggest reported salmon for 130 years in the shape of this 22.1lb fish taken at the Salmon Pool by Patrick Delapp. It was the first salmon of the year from the Galway waterway and was in magnificent condition. Patrick has since banked a couple of grilse from the salmon […]

Picture: Natalie Hanson shows off the best fish of the week from Rutland Water. The Northborough angler caught this lovely 7lb 10½oz brown trout on the third cast of the day with a new rod and reel purchased from Rutland Tackle Shop.  Rutland Water Fish week 1,053(season 15,579) Returns 310 (3,243) Rod average 3.39 (4.8) The […]

The annual home international match between the ladies of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales took place on 22nd May 2014 at Lake Trawsfynydd in Wales.  The match started well with Janice Sharp, Eileen Chatwin, Sheena Goode and Hilary Tomlinson all catching early in Club Bay with hardly any fish being caught by other teams.  Boat […]

The capture of the biggest trout of the season at Rutland Water is always news, but especially when it’s a strain that the management don’t even stock there. Peterborough angler Leon Smith landed the 10lb 10oz fish while boat fishing on the South Arm. But this was no brown or rainbow trout. In fact Leon’s […]

Picture: John Hood who won the Dave Hodgson Memorial Match at Rutland Water on 4 May.  It was a poignant victory for John who caught his best fish, a superb 8lb 4oz Rainbow, in Dave’s favourite spot at Rutland – Manton Bay.  John’s winning bag of 8 fish weighed in at 20lb 6oz. • 10lb 8oz […]