Trophy Room for STEVE FALCO

Dace offer the angler a different challenge to other larger species. In dace fishing we are entering a world in miniature with its own very special demands. It is generally recognised that lightening reflexes with perfect presentation are key requirements. It is these special demands that have made dace fishing a special and stimulating aspect…

Peg 48 on the Windmill Lake dam wall at Earlswood saw me take twelve bream for 33.11.0 which was good enough for fourth place last weekend. Once again chopped worm and caster in the feeder with worm and caster or worm and red maggot on the hook did the damage. Thirty-nine pounds of bream won…

Specie: Carp Weight: 15lb 4oz Location: Ham Green Lake , Salford.The first carp was 15lb 4oz & it put up a good fight for 15 mins. It was at Ham Green Lake in the spring last year on the top lake. I caught it on luncheon meat. You can get the carp on brad as…

Trophy Room for Jim Hickey Specie: mirror carp Location: FranceA large mirror caught on a second chance/IAC fundraising trip to France Specie: carp Weight: 34.02My UK personal best at 34.02, this fish was caught in the most extraordinary circumstances, still thats fishing with my mate Ginger. Specie: catfish Location: FranceMy first catfish caught just after…

Each year some fish will die, and so it doesn’t take many years for there to be very few fish left. So the older and bigger you get, the less of your year class will be left. This does not always follow, some times conditions will lead to an exceptional year class being formed. An…

How else could we regard a government, (of whatever political persuasion) which ignores the existence of a 5 billion pound industry(government figures, not mine). An industry two or three times the size of the professional football game, generating income many times that of the commercial fishing industry – and yet refuses to accord that industry…