Rutland Water Best fish of the week, a superb rainbow weighing 7lb 8oz, was taken by Phil Hall from Maidenhead while boat fishing the main basin. Phil’s fish fell to a Diawl Bach on a floating line. Best brown of the week fell to Derek Edwards from Dolgellau in Wales. This fish also fell to…

Rutland Water : Twenty five years of angling at Rutland paid off for Tony Gray from Worksop this weekend. Season ticket holder Tony found fame when he took the giant Rainbow stocked for the 25th anniversary. Tony thought he had caught the new record for Rutland Water until fellow season ticket holder Thomas Graham noticed…

Horam Manor Fishery Report The warmer weather seems to have encouraged the larger carp to feed from several of the waters. Charles Zeitlin from Heathfield stalked the Lagoon with a fly rod and tempted a 10 1/2 lb Mirror using an imitation dog biscuit- a first for the fishery! Trevor Rooney from Eastbourne ledgered pepperoni…

Ever dreamed of going on that ultimate big game fishing experience? Well now you can live your fantasy at a price that wonít break the bank! Ultimate Angling Ltd, one of the UKís leading foreign holiday specialists, have teamed up with Cortez Charters (est. 1984), the largest independent provider of sportfishing charters on the West…

SEAWEEK: BrightLine – RUSS SYMONS by Russ Symons, Monday 3rd December, 2001 Articles related by topic: Boat, Exotic, Sea, Shore, Tackle, Terminal Tackle/knots/rigs Articles related by species: Bream, Brill, Coalfish, Cod, Conger Eel, Haddock, Pollack, Shark, Sharks, Skate, Sole, Thornback Ray, Tope, Turbot, Whiting t has often been said that using these recently introduced brightly…

I can’t even remember the name of the pub on Achill Island, in County Mayo, where I heard a phrase in Irish : ‘Ronnoch mor’ but I’m sure it was uttered by a big, red-faced, 60-ish commercial fisherman called Mangan. I asked him what it meant and he said, “The great mackerel”. Now at the…

The concept of the PAA was conceived by Peter Clapperton to boost the waning interest in angling as a whole and to provide a professional body of instructors nation-wide to pass on knowledge and help others develop skills required to improve as anglers. With the help of Roy Marlow and Alan Pearce the initial idea…

The saying ‘use a big bait to catch a big fish’ is generally attributed to carp bait pioneer Fred Wilton. Now while there is more than a grain of truth in this, there are many times when large baits will not score. For the most part, even large fish fed upon quite small prey and…

Tackle.When fishing crayfish patterns in stillwater, I only consider one line to be useful, this being either an intermediate or slow sinker depending upon personal preference. For me it is an intermediate, as we are not looking to fish deep water relatively speaking, and the slower sink rate allows a better presentation. Oddly enough, occasional…

That would seem to be the picture that some people have in their minds about recent events at Blithfield reservoir. The truth however, is rather different! Letís start at the beginning.Blithfield reservoir is an 800 acre water supply reservoir situated near the village of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire. The fishing is run by Blithfield Anglers…