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Birmingham Angling Association bans live baiting and fish removal

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Gofishing.co.uk, 16 March 2010 14:51

The nation's largest fishing club - Birmingham Angling Association - has banned live baiting and also introduced new catch-and-release rules covering all fish except zander. The BAA's change in rules coincide with the new Environment Agency byelaws governing fish removal which come into force in April. For more details on this story and the new byelaws read this week's Angling Times, out ...

 

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Birmingham Angling Association bans live baiting and fish removal

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Gofishing.co.uk,
16 March 2010 14:51

The nation's largest fishing club - Birmingham Angling Association - has banned live baiting and also introduced new catch-and-release rules covering all fish except zander. The BAA's change in rules coincide with the new Environment Agency byelaws governing fish removal which come into force in April. For more details on this story and the new byelaws read this week's Angling Times, out ...

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A great end to the pike fishing season at Chew Valley Lake

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Angling Times, 04 March 2010 10:00

The winter pike fishing trials at Chew Valley Lake finished with a bang last week when Steve Marshall banked this 37lb giant from the prolific Somerset venue. The huge predator, which beat the 42-year-old’s previous personal best by just under 2lb, fell to a floatfished smelt and was part of a five-fish catch made over two days with boat partner Andy ...

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Second biggest zander of all time caught at 20lb 2oz

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Angling Times, 23 February 2010 12:41

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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First cast produces 32lb 7oz pike at Chew Valley Lake

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Angling Times, 23 February 2010 12:18

Gareth Goldson’s seven-and-a-half-hour trip from Cromer in Norfolk to Chew Valley Lake in Somerset was rewarded when his first cast resulted in this 32lb 7oz pike. After struggling to sleep the night before because he was ‘too excited’, Gareth and boat partner Rich Keeble set off on their marathon journey at 1.30am, only to find all the other boats had ...

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Hampshire Avon produces personal best pike after 3-year wait

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Angling Times, 23 February 2010 11:21

A three-year campaign to land a personal-best pike ended for Kevin Blanchard when he netted this 21lb 14oz specimen from the Hampshire Avon. The Fareham-based rod had come close to beating his old best of 19lb on numerous occasions, before finally reaching his goal when the fish took his legered sardine offering during a session in the popular Parlour Pool ...

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Lough Muckno produces two 20lb pike in two casts

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Angling Times, 10 February 2010 09:00

A pike fishing trip to the vast Lough Muckno in County Monaghan saw Gary Robinson bank his first-ever ‘twenty’, weighing-in at a new personal best of 21lb 8ozŠwhich he followed up with another weighing 20lb 4oz on his very next cast! It was the first time that Gary and his angling partner Scott Ring, both from County Wicklow, Ireland, had ...

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Massive Haiti fundraising event to be held at Bury Hill Fisheries

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Gofishing.co.uk, 08 February 2010 12:32

Support angling’s most ambitious fundraising event through a Charity Predator Day, Mega Raffle and Auction in support of victims of the recent Haiti earthquake that killed as many 200,000 people and left an estimated 1.5 million homeless. A Predator Day, Mega Raffle and Auction will be held at Bury Hill Fisheries on Saturday, February 27th. Renowned for their huge stocks of zander, ...

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South west canal produces 31lb 2oz pike for Julian Chidgey

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Angling Times, 23 December 2009 10:21

This is a picture of one of the biggest pike ever caught from a canal ¬ all 31lb 2oz of it. The impressive fish was taken by Julian Chidgey from a venue in the South West and was just reward for an extensive pre-baiting campaign undertaken by the 27-year-old. In the two months leading up to the capture the Devon-based ...

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Massive pike caught from the River Wye

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Julian Page, 17 December 2009 19:01

With pike fishing on my agenda I took a day off from work and travelled from Bridgnorth where I live to Hereford on Wednesday 16th Dec to fish the River Wye. I got a day ticket from Woody's Tackle Shop to try for one of the many pike that I had heard were showing in numbers during recent Hereford & District AA ...

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Prebaiting provides Mick Brown with 27lb 11oz pike

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Angling Times, 15 December 2009 11:36

Prebaiting isn’t a tactic you normally associate with predator fishing, but Mick Brown put the practice to good effect in his efforts to catch this 27lb 11oz specimen pike from a 26-acre Lincolnshire gravel pit. The local predator expert baited a deep area of the venue with around 20lb of dead fish before returning the following day to bank the stunner, ...

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