Exciting new competition at Yorkshire complex!Top Yorkshire fishery The Oaks, has just announced its popular summer festival. The four-day event, which is to be held over the August Bank Holiday weekend (23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th) is to be sponsored by Howarth And Co Solicitors. This will mean a top payout. So far the payout has been devised with 60 anglers in mind but will increase if more anglers attend.
Superteam's glory on Midlands canal. Shakespeare
Superteam have won the Angling Trust Division One National Championship on the Burton
and Rugeley stretches of the Trent & Mersey Canal. The event -
which is the largest annual match fished in the UK - was contested by
56 teams of ten. Shakespeare's captain, Darren Massey was delighted with
the result, and commented:"To win off the draw that we had -
that included five pegs that we thought would be really bad - was a
great achievement.
Hemsworth rod in Fish 'O' Mania FinalFormer England Youth International, Dale Shepherd has won the debut Fish 'O' Mania qualifier at Aston Ponds in Sheffield. The 23-year-old ace managed to net 67lb of ide, fishing up in the water with casters. Drawn on Peg 6 on the venue's Split Pond, Dale netted over 150 fish for his weight - which put him 5lb clear of second place. Runner up on the day was local rod Leon Hardwick, who caught a 62lb 12oz net of ide from Lantra Pool.
Preston ace nets new personal best. England International Des Shipp has smashed his personal-best match weight, after breaking the venue record at Ridgeway Lake in the Cotswold Water Park. The Preston Innovations and Sonubaits-backed rod put together a 446lb winning net, comprising of 80 carp taken on pole tactics, and smashed his previous personal-best match weight by 139lb. He explained: "It was one of those days when everything just went right.
Bonus tench seals the win for DesDes Shipp has been crowned the 2014 Wychavon champion, after a close fought battle on Evesham’s River Avon. The Preston Innovations-backed ace, and England international, picked up the £2,000 winner's cheque, after weighing in 8-1-0 from end Peg 1 on the Crown Meadow. A delighted Des explained: “I am over the moon to have won, what I regard as one of the most prestigious river fishing titles out there. I was pleased with my draw this morning, not least because my good friend and England teammate, Will Raison fished the peg yesterday, and his information was a massive help, given the fact that I don’t know the water very well.
The store, which can be found atwww. shopatdhp. com, sells everything from hip flasks to books, DVDs, pictures, mugs, head torches and jewellery! In short, it’s a one-stop shop for anyone looking for angling-related gifts.
Shoppers have the choice of being able to browse all gifts, or just those relevant to a specific discipline – whether that be sea fishing, coarse fishing or game fishing or specific budget.
New angling-related gift shop now live. A new online angling gift shop has been launched by the
publishers of Match Fishing magazine, David Hall Publishing. The store, which can be found at www. shopatdhp.
Lincoln store to offer massive weekend discounts. Popular Lincoln tackle store Shortferry Angling has announced a 25 per cent discount sale this weekend. The store is celebrating being open since 1988 by offering customers some bumper bargains in a one-off weekend extravaganza. The terms of the sale couldn't be simpler – the owners are simply taking 25 per cent off their entire stock! This is for one weekend only and only available in store.
Great Northern Fishing show in Jeopardy, but Fish O Mania will go ahead. The Great Northern Fishing Show, which accompanied the famous Fish O Mania event aired live on Sky Sports, looks unlikely to run in 2013 following a bust up between show bosses. The show organiser, and former Cudmore Fisheries boss, Cyril Brewster has left his post, following a row with land owner, Edward Mainwaring. A press release to exhibitors from Cyrils’ wife, Sue Brewster stated: “Due to matters beyond Cyril’s control he will not be running the Great Northern Fishing Show at Cudmore Fisheries this year during Fish O Mania.
Larford announce dates for popular silvers festival. Maver Larford Lakes has announced the dates for its 2013 Silver Fish Festival.
The event, which has proven very popular in recent years, is scheduled to take place over a four-day period starting on Monday 25th February and finishing on Thursday 28th February.
The competition will cater for a total of 44 anglers fishing in four sections of eleven each day and will take place on the Specimen lake, which has built up a reputation for being amongst the best silverfish venues in the country.
Arrow Valley Country park has recently played host to a Learning Disability Match run by Bromfords HUB at Studley.
Good weather was ordered for the day. To celebrate Bromford’s, a Midlands Housing Association and Support Service 50th Anniversary they provided the main trophy, the Bromford Cup, and the Bromford 50 Cup for the nearest weight to 50lb.
At the draw each angler was presented with a Participation Certificate and Goody tackle bag kindly donated by the tackle trade and angling press.
Middy ace makes the Maver Match This Final. Simon Skelton has won the latest Maver Match This qualifier at Maver Larford Lakes. Simon drew end peg 44 on Arena Lake, and alternated between short pole and the method feeder, before switching to the margins late on to take carp to 18lbs. Simon's final weigh pulled the scales round to a match-winning 135-12-00.
Big fish boosts England's hopes. With just over an hour to go, England's hopes of a team gold have received a boost - after Des Shipp, who was thought to be last in his section, has banked a skimmer, and several decent roach in the last few minutes. It is thought that this has pushed him up 12 places, to sixth in his section. Things aren't going so well for Will Raison now however, as more and more big fish are being caught in his section.
Deadly new flavour combination from Marukyu! Marukyu is well known for its scientific approach to baits and the latest launch is set to take the market by storm!
'Skrill' is the buzzword from the Marukyu stable. It is a new pellet formulation that combines the awesome fish-catching properties of krill with strong-smelling squid.
Skrill pellets are almost black in colour thanks to this combination of flavours, and they have been taking venues apart during development.
Luckily for you, we will be the first to get our hands on the Skrill pellets and we'll have an exclusive Facebook competition for you tomorrow to stand a chance to win some of these awesome pellets.
Bait giant Sonubaits launch a new range of silver-fish groundbaits.
We are at the Preston Innovations and Sonubaits Press day today where the brands are set to show us all of their new products for 2015.
Over the course of the day we will bring you information on the items as and when we get it, as we are sure you are all excited to see what they have to offer — we certainly are!
First up is the new Super Crumb range from Sonubaits. This is a concise range of four non-fishmeal mixes aimed at silver-fish anglers and natural waters.
