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
Staffordshire's Cudmore Fisheries is home to a vast array of pools containing a huge head of hungry mirros and commons, but it is the carp-free Milo Lake that has proved the most visited in recent weeks, every peg giving 100lb-plus hauls of tench, bream, chub and barbel. In the thick of the action is Dave Smith. The Bag'Em Baits ace ...
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- 09 August 2011
Angling Times this week lifts the lid on the greatest ‘silverfish only’ stillwater in the land. The lake is located within the walls of one of the country’s best carp bagging complexes but the management have left one pool free of mirrors and commons and it has turned into a popular haven with match and pleasure rods alike. Huge hauls ...
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- 08 August 2011
A hat trick of personal bests in one week for Sam Blakeburn was topped by this 7lb chub from the River Ouzel. The Buckinghamshire-based rod started the campaign on a stretch close to Bletchley with a 5lb 3oz personal best, but managed to up it twice in quick succession with specimens of 5lb 9oz and 6lb 8oz before the lump ...
When Pete McKay landed this impressive fish during a pleasure angling session on a tidal stretch of the River Trent, at first he thought that he had caught a huge chub. Upon closer inspection of the impressive 6lb 2oz specimen, however, he realised that something wasn’t right and so asked the opinion of his fellow anglers along the stretch. Most ...
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- 11 July 2011
Angling Times can this week unveil the country's best big-fish canal, following a succession of large chub in the 5lb to 6lb class reported in matches and pleasure fishing sessions. The Staffs-Worcester canal has seen an explosion of chub in recent years after the species was initially stocked 15 years ago by Wolverhampton Angling Association, which controls much of its ...
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- 11 July 2011
John Allerton won countless fishing matches using stick and waggler floats which he guided with a dexterity that defied belief. The subtle fish-playing qualities of a fine three-piece match rod are wasted on many modern day commercial match anglers, so the chances of them coughing up for one that carries a £200-plus price tag are remote, to say the least. ...
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- 11 July 2011
Angling Times has just visited a canal that has produced chub to over 7lb, and fish in excess of 5lb are coming out regularly to match and pleasure anglers. The cameras turned up to see how specimens like this are landed on pole tackle and we weren’t disappointed, in the company of one of the best canal matchmen in the ...
The great start to the river season continued when the winner of the latest event on the Severn landed 88lb 12oz of barbel and chub. Over 40 anglers lined the banks of the waterway at Linley Bank to take part in the Nick Gretton Memorial and it was Basildon’s Tony Peploe that managed to steal the show after he bagged ...
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- 07 July 2011
Rivers are off to a flyer with the highlight of opening morning a 34lb carp believed to be from a Cambridgeshire waterway. The River Wye has seen the chub on the feed with eight in eight casts coming to Angling Times regular Terry Knight, whilst fishing the Red Lion stretch with Dynamite baits’ Red Robin boilies. And barbel have been ...
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- 16 June 2011
