Stalybridge Angling Supplies

Saturday 8th April: After a pleasant evenings sail we left the ferry and travelled by coach to the River Spui. Everything about this venue is big: the ships the rocks and the size of feeder you need to hold bottom. Andy Jennings from Wakefield Match Anglers, and first winner of Fishamania, was pegged next to…

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…

You know the score, The weekend comes round, and by the time you have done that little list of jobs that the good lady has compiled for you during the week, youíre lucky if you get half a days fishing in before it’s Monday morning and you are crawling in snail-like traffic, breathing in the…

But if you start getting that bit specialised then things change a little, for as your experience grows then the need for just a bit more tackle increases, or so some of us would like to think. Just watch that you dont fall into the common trap of believing that every single gadget put out…

Location: From Sunbury Cross at the end of the A316 follow the A308 towards Staines. After passing the Queen Mary Reservoir on your left hand side you will come into a roundabout. Turn left at this roundabout and left again at the next roundabout that is about 200 yards away. This is Ashford Road. Follow…

Although this is not confined to rivers, they are what I am going to concentrate on. Species such as barbel, chub, and perch, are all packing on weight, with specimen fish appearing in many places, both old haunts and new. The angling press confirms this on a weekly basis, as average specimen weights keep rising,…