After 10 hard-fought rounds, the Match Fishing Drawbags team of four has claimed the Tunnel Barn Farm Winter League Championship.
Eighteen teams battled it out at the ever-reliable Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery in Warwickshire. The talented four-man team of Steve Ringer, Jon Arthur, Joe Carass and Paul Bick sealed victory by also winning the final round. They ended up with an impressive 555-point score, ahead of Barston on 516 points and Banbury Gunsmiths on 512 points.
Match This Champion, Les Thompson to host Facebook chat night.
Bait Tech and Matrix consultant Les Thompson is the star in line for the next installment of Bait Tech’s hugely popular Facebook chat nights. Les has been at the forefront of the commercial match scene for many years. The Midlands based angler is heavily involved in bait and tackle design, with an understanding of the industry topped by an in depth knowledge of the sport.
Final round of pairs league yields more top roach weights. The final round of the Maver Bait Tech Pairs League has taken place on the River Glen and Town Welland in Spalding this weekend. With previous rounds making headlines due to massive nets of roach, expectations were high for another good match. For the first time in the series the organisers were able to use both the Town Welland and the River Glen and both venues fished really well.
Pictures of fishing trips gone wrong!
Many of us think that we have had a bad day when we stagger off the bank, freezing cold and without a bite - but as the below selection of pictures prove, things could be a whole lot worse! They are taken from a viral email that has been doing the rounds this week, showing just how bad it can be when fishing trips go wrong! Be warned, don't scroll down unless you have a strong stomach!. . . .
Sammie Perkins storms Makins practice match with massive winter haul. After a four year leave of absence, Shimano and Dynamite Baits backed ace Sammie Perkins has returned to Makins Fishery in style, bagging a winning 97lb 12oz net of carp. The 22 year old England international took the haul from peg 15 on Snake Pool – one of the few pegs on the complex that she has never drawn before. Along with her dad, Mark Perkins, and uncle, Rob Perkins, Sammie was regarded as one of the anglers to beat at the Midlands commercial – and even had an ‘Embryo Club’ of celebrity anglers that she had beaten! After joining the England Ladies team, Sammie decided that she needed to broaden her horizons, focussing more on natural venues, and also trying here hand at big carp fishing –meaning she hadn’t visited the venue for the past four years.
71 pages of news, blogs and features for just 69p!The angling world is in mourning this week, as two stars of the sport have passed away. These are multiple Drennan Cup winner Terry Lampard, and match fishing legend, Don Slaymaker. We have tributes from their friends inside. In more cheery news, Gareth Goldson has broken his personal best chub with a 7lb 13oz specimen.
It’s a number that could save your life. To many people, dialling 999 is the first thing that comes to mind when faced with an emergency or crisis. But what happens if you have little or no signal, or if you have to use somebody elses phone, where the keypad is locked, or without credit?A video is trending on YouTube explaining the merits of a different emergency number – 112. This has several advantages over the standard 999 number, in that it can be recognised in 70 Countries worldwide – and can often connect to an operator even when there is no signal on your network.
Matrix back Tidal Trent Festival. Following on from good turnouts on the river last year, River Trent match organiser, Alan Henry has announced that the Tidal Trent Festival will be running again in 2013. He explained “Sadly last year we had to call the festival off after the first day due to the river flooding, after what we now know to be one of the wettest years on record. Even with the river out of sorts though, we still had 45 anglers enter the Festival.
Our new blogger Nick Speed has been in great form lately but just how did he do this week? Saturday 2/2/13.
Lindholme Lakes, Bonsai, 25 pegs.
Well yet another windy day at “Windholme”, and to make it worse I drew Peg 9 on the narrow bank, this is a good draw but the wind was going to make this a difficult day. Especially when I need to fish 15 metres tight against the island for F1s and Mirrors, if I want to stand a chance of extracting enough weight to frame.
Death Of A Trent Star. Midland based angling legend, Don Slaymaker has passed away after a battle with cancer. Don was widely regarded as being one of the best river anglers of his generation, and also had scores of commercial victories to his name. Originally hailing from Stoke, Don moved to Nottingham as a young man, cutting his teeth on the ultra competitive River Trent circuit of the 70s and 80s.
