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
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
Reading this weeks article regarding fly fishing for Pike, I felt my blood boil. Mr. taylor is just talking the same rubbish spouted by so called proper Pike Fishermen, who A - don't fly fish and B - live in the dark ages. Let me point out a few issues here. Firstly, He clearly has a problem with the method for Pike fullstop. May he say why? A fly rod is deemed acceptable to to tame a hard fighting fresh run Salmon which could be caught and released but a pike? No, it seems. You will hear the usually arguement that due to ...
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- 01 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
Holidaying British angler Tony Scott (pictured above centre) and his wife, Jean, enjoyed a dream trip to Florida where they boated numerous jacks, kingfish and sharks, topped by this huge 110lb-plus amberjack which fought for over 45 minutes after taking Tony’s livebait. The couple’s target of a 100lb-plus tarpon had to be put on hold after the unseasonably cold weather ...
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- 20 April 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
"There is no more natural means of catching fish than by using livebaits." This is again an extract taken from his article about the B.A.A banning the use of livebait. Should that not read..There is no more natural means of catching predatory fish than by using livebaits ? Not all fish can be caught on livebaits, what's more natural than catching fish on things they feed on like worms, slugs, shrimps, mussels or berries. Is it me ? am I ready his comments completely wrong ?
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- 30 March 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. ...
