July 2011

This weeks thursday evening match was slow for much of the evening, the flat calm, overcast cast conditions with no tow didn't encourage the fish to feed. This weeks winner was Dave Shore with 6lb 1oz of roach and eels from peg 14, 2nd was Rob Garland with 5lb 4oz of roach and skimmers from peg 25, 3rd was Pete...

Merseyside County Angling Development Board(CADG) are hosting a match at Chester LakesFishery on Saturday 30th July 2011 as part of theAngling Development Board Talent Plan.Anglers within the teams event will be assessedby trained selectors as part of the pilot schemeto find the next International Anglers. Teammust be members of the Development Group toregister.Alongside this is an open match with three...

If your interested in fishing on natural venues then check out this blog, it is written by Mark Horsley of Peterborough, and follows his fishing around the Peterborough area. Mark has recently started a pole repair business called Peterborough Pole RepairsThe blog is http://riverangler.blogspot.com/

It not often you get something for Nowt, but if you want a good read check out Steve Locketts site, it really makes you think about your fishing  http://www.writeanglemagazine.co.uk/summer2010.pdf

After getting back from the European Champs in Poland, it was back to work for one day, before heading off to Gold Valley for the latest round of the match fishing cup. Poland the fishing was grim, but this was going to be the complete opposite, when most people thinking you were going to need 80lb to progress to the...

The fishing this week still hadn't returned to its best form, the majority of the roach havent returned to batlic wharf after spawning, they normally return at the end of July and August sees the best fishing of the year along this stretch.Conditions wernt easy, there was no wind, no undertow, bright, flat and clear water made the fishing very...