Keen match angler Mick Simpson was given a major shock during the latest event at Stafford Moor when he banked a 5lb 12oz eel. The Worksop-based rod had made the 550-mile round trip to the Devon complex and drew peg 8 on Tanners Lake in the contest. Several carp to 8lb fell for his bomb and pellet attack in the ...
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- 21 May 2013
WHEN game angling guide Rob Waddington latched into a heavy fish during a session at Rutland Water last week, the last thing he expected to see on the other end was this huge eel, weighing in at a mighty 7lb 8oz The professional fishing coach took the impressive predator on a sinking fly while casting from the bank at the ...
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- 30 April 2013
Eel fishing fanatic Steve Ricketts became the first angler in history to land two eels over the 9lb barrier when he netted a brace of huge specimens weighing 9lb 13oz and 9lb 1oz from a southern stillwater. The larger of the two fish is the third biggest ever landed by design, measuring 47ins in length with a girth of 11ins ...
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- 26 June 2012
Eel fishing fanatic Steve Ricketts had the most productive 50 minutes’ fishing of his life when he landed a string of four specimens topped by a superb 7lb 10oz fish. The London-based angler was fishing at a Kent stillwater with a group of friends, and none of the party had received a bite for four days until the quartet of ...
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- 29 May 2012
Traditionally-speaking, it’s still a little bit early in the season to be targeting big eels, but that didn’t stop species enthusiast Mark Salt fooling this 6lb 1oz specimen during a session last week. He set his sights on a local Middlesex gravel pit and after priming his swim with dead maggots, chopped worms and halibut-flavoured groundbait, Mark cast his ‘Dyson ...
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- 03 May 2012
The Angling Trust has this week launched a seven-point plan to tackle the ever-growing problem of poaching from English waters. The sport’s governing body is set to ramp up a number of initiatives, ranging from the establishment of a new ‘Poacher Watch’ website for reporting fish theft - in a similar way to its Cormorant Watch site - through to ...
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- 18 October 2011
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- 30 September 2011
One of the UK’s most popular commercial fisheries has produced the biggest eel of the year at 8lb 12oz. Stafford Moor, in Dolton, Devon, proved why many believe that it could soon produce a fish over the current British best when local eel fishing fanatic Alan Jump netted the huge specimen during a session on Tanners Lake. The new venue ...
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- 19 September 2011
‘Every fishery boss in the country should check rod licences before they are allowed to set foot on their lakes.’ These are the words of a commercial boss who insists that visitors fish within the law and will even buy a permit on behalf of any angler that turns up at his water without the necessary paperwork. David Howarth owns ...
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- 06 September 2011
Fishing celebrity Matt Hayes has this week been signed up by the Discovery Channel for a new television series. Angling Times first revealed that Matt had filmed a pilot called ‘24 Hour Rod Race’ in the Spring, and as a result of that initial recording, the project has now been commissioned for screening by Sky in 2012. And AT readers ...
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- 30 August 2011
