SATURDAY21st October 2000

I won the individual title back in 1988 and since then have managed top spot in the Sunday team event and two firsts in the bank holiday Monday Wychavon event. In addition I’ve managed to get many more high placings over the past few seasons – so you can see how much I look forward…

There was a stage at the end of last year when I was starting to wonder whether we’d ever get the chance to get back on the rivers again before the March 14th deadline. Three lots of extreme floods brought the Severn over the banks with a peak in November of around twenty feet above…

Catfish [Species Menu] [Catfish articles] Common name: Wels catfish Latin name: Silurus glanis Record weight: Weight recognised by the British Record Fish Committee is 62lb caught by Richard Garner from Withy Lake in Bedfordshire in 1997. This fish is unlikely to be ever beaten as although several much larger fish have been caught the record…

Articles by John Young John Young John Young has been fishing since 1972. He started by drowning maggots for anything that came along but soon donned a floppy green hat and joined the specimen hunting scene. In the late 1970s he started pursuing carp and soon caught his first 20lber on diced potato. Years later,…

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Dogfish [Species Menu] [Dogfish articles] Common name: Lesser spotted dogfish Latin name: Scyliorhinus canicula Record weight: One of the few species where the shore record is larger than the boat caught best. The current boat record is 4lb 6oz 8 drams, whilst the shore best is 4lb 15oz 3 drams. Most fish are much smaller…