It’s not much of a secret that I don’t really like pike. Nothing personal, it’s just that I find the whole process of trying to catch something with more teeth than brain cells all a bit clumsy, crude and, more often than not, painful. There’s too much metal and blood for my liking. Then, of course, there are the anglers ...
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- 14 May 2010
The decision made by the committee of the BAA to ban livebaiting is one of the most serious matters to arise in angling politics in the last decade, in my opinion. There is no more natural means of catching fish than by using livebaits. Our very sport, coarse fishing, bears its name under the meaning of coarse beingnatural: we fish ...
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- 26 March 2010
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This potential new IGFA world record Wels catfish weighing 250lb 5oz was caught from the River Po in Italy. Italian angler Roberto Godi tempted the colossal 8ft 2ins long specimen on a bream livebait and finally brought it to the net after a titanic 45-minute battle on the banks of the river, which runs through the north Italian city of ...
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- 04 June 2010
After drawing a blank on his first tench session of the year, Terry Lampard switched his attention to the catfish in Dorset’s Todber Manor, where he took this massive 72lb 4oz specimen, along with two others in an overnight session. Targeting the venue’s Paddock Lake with a small rudd livebait fished just below the surface on a ‘polyball rig’, Terry ...
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- 07 May 2010
When I learned that a consortium of local clubs with memberships available had taken over the running of Fishers Green I couldn’t have been happier. The River Lea on what was then called ‘The Seventy-Acre Fishery’ was where I first encountered running water. Thanks to Mr Crabtree I knew what to do and where to look for chub and barbel, ...
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- 09 April 2010
Bryan Culley returned to the scene of his capture of a 4lb 1oz Trent perch a couple of weeks ago to winkle out this fine 6lb 10oz brace, part of a nine-fish catch made on floatfished worm. The stripeys, weighing 3lb 10oz and 3lb, were backed up with a brace of ‘twos’ and a number of 1lb-plus fish, all caught ...
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- 11 March 2010
Commercial waters are packed with huge perch - feeding on the endless supply of silverfish. The result is they’re getting bigger and bigger. Mick Cutler shows you how to catch one of these magnificent creatures… THE next time you cast into your local commercial lake just remember that the hookbait may land within a few feet of a British Record Fish. ...
The second-biggest zander of all time has been banked this week at a weight of 20lb 2oz. The mighty fish, which falls just 1lb 3oz short of the British record, was taken by Martin Jauncey from the River Severn during a day afloat with fellow predator enthusiast Chris Fowles. It fell to a trotted roach livebait and came on Martin’s ...
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- 23 February 2010
Deadbaits wouldn’t be many anglers’ first-choice bait for a big perch, but a lifeless small roach proved irresistible to this impressive Trent stripey weighing 4lb 1oz. The Trent predator was tempted by specimen angler Bryan Culley after experiencing a number of fast, aborted runs while targeting the middle river’s pike population. A switch to lighter tackle resulted in an immediate ...
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- 09 February 2010
