Specie: Wels catfish Weight: 51lb Location: Marsworth Reservoir Gary Dolan’s 51lb catfish from Marsworth Reservoir, caught Saturday 2nd June 2001 at 5pm. Gary took the monster moggie on bolt-rigged luncheon meat on a size six hook.
Plaice [Species Menu] [Plaice articles] Common name: Plaice Latin name: Pleuronectes platessa Record weight: The plaice is one of the smaller flatfish found around the British coast. The boat record is a whopper of 10lb 3oz 8 drams, whilst the shore caught best is a fish of 8lb 6oz 14 drams. Distribution: Plaice were once…
I went back to Poole Hall fishery last Wednesday and had a really good four-hour workout on peg 25. By the end of the session I reckon I’d taken around eighty pounds of fish with more than three-quarters of the weight made up with tench! Page 2 I went back to Poole Hall fishery last…
It wouldnt harm anyone would it? Let’s face it, our 17,000 commercial fishermen are virtually redundant anyway and as for pleasure anglers, they could take up golf or tiddlywinks or anything else that would be more environmentally friendly. Our lakes and river systems would flourish, especially if all petrol/diesel boats were also outlawed. The north…
Bream [Species Menu] [Bream articles] Common name: Common bream Latin name: Abramis brama Record weight: Broken several times in 2001, currently the largest specimen is a fish of 18lb 12oz caught from Bawburgh lake in Norfolk. Distribution: Found throughout Europe and into the borders with Asia. Bream are an important commercial species in Eastern Europe…
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With me I took Pete Tew, owner of Carp Unlimited who had helped me considerably during the winter with putting together the tackle requirements and bait for the season, Ian Witwell, from Eastbourne, Jamie Goouge a 17 year old carp crazy kid who had scrimped and saved for 6 months to afford the trip, and…
I tried to suggest that as everyone else on the site was writing about catching fish maybe my articles might provide a welcome relief but he didnt seem convinced; he can be very single minded at times. My options seemed rather limited, either set up a rival website that included the odd angling anecdote as…
This is one of the joys of angling, being able to set your own targets, create your own goals and achieve your own dreams. Sometimes fishing can be frustrating, sometimes it can be exhilarating, sometimes it can be the full gambit of emotions in the space of a couple of hours but it is always…
The companys founder Malcolm Grey, left that famous company House of Hardy to set up Greys: interestingly, his company has recently rejoined the Hardys fold, and it is presumably this merger that has allowed Greys to branch out into reel production. To their credit, theyve taken the brave step of introducing an original design of…