LATEST ADDITIONS

Top tackle shop starts sale early!Cheshire based tackle giants, Stapeley Angling Centre have announced a pre Christmas bargain bonanza - starting on Saturday. Following a recent move in location, the store has decided to celebrate by offering a month long sale. Store manager, Neil Stockton explained: "Normally our Christmas sale starts in December, but due to our new location this year we have decided to run it for a month starting on Sat 23rd November until Monday 23rd December. All items are reduced as normal with ex display items up to half price and great deals on any larger items like bivvies, rods, reels and luggage.

Feeder team catching well in South Africa. Match Fishing's man on the bank in South Africa has reported that Preston Innovations Team England are doing very well in the first two days of official practice ahead of this years World Feeder Championship, which takes place this weekend It is reported that England had 42 Carp today, with other nations averaging between 15 and 30 fish - which is leading many to speculate that England have got their tactics just right. As more and more bait goes into the venue, it is also said that the fishing is getting better and better, with more and more fish homing in on the bait. Understandably, team England are keen not to disclose too much about the tactics that they are using.

Canal ace seals individual and team victory. Richard Pulford has won the first round of the Thorne Teams Of Three League, with a 17-15-0 net of quality roach and skimmers. Drawn on peg 208, Rich enjoyed an early run of perch on bloodworm and small roach on bread, before turning his attention to a long pole swim, fed with casters. A procession of chunky roach, and skimmers came to his net – as well as a bonus 3lb bream for a total weight of 17-15-0.

Craig Butterfield reflects on a recent feature with a difference. What is a match angler? I’m sure like me the idea you have of a match angler is someone sat on a fancy box with all the trimmings, holding an expensive pole and dressed head to toe in fancy coloured Gore-Tex clothing. On Saturday I was lucky enough to be on the bank with Dean Winsbury shooting some angling videos, now I’m sure all of you are thinking, “Who the hell is Dean Winsbury”? Well he’s a match angler, and a good one at that! He’s a master at bagging on prolific commercials and boasts match catches from venues such as Barston of over 800lb! You may be wondering how a match angler can have such huge catches and never grace the pages of Match Fishing magazine, well he’s a carp angler, or is that a specimen angler, after all, 90% of us fish for carp every week and would never dream of labeling ourselves carp anglers! We’re match anglers!Spending time on the bank with Dean and talking to him about his own style of match fishing was fantastic, you could tell as soon as I mentioned his match fishing a spark was ignited, he began to talk about matches he’s won and the ones that agonizingly slipped through his fingers due to a bad decision on his part. As he reminisced over the near misses and the “if onlys” I realized I could have been talking to absolutely anyone in the pub after one out our “normal” matches.