This month has seen me fish the Sensas Challenge UK final with the Barnsley team at Barston Lakes and Packington Somers fishery in Birmingham. It’s a fantastic two day event fished...
Lindholme has been my regular haunt this winter, trying to get as much practice for the WL semi this month, as well as fishing the individual winter league there. Since last time I...
Sheffield anglers Matt Godfrey and Tom Scholey lock horns in a bloodworm v maggot battle at Lakeside Fisheries, Ranskill. Tom’s Angle ‘Maggot Man’ I have been visiting...
Sorry for the lack of blogs over Christmas, I’ve had some A-level exams and had to apply to university and been proper busy! I’ve still done plenty of fishing though, and the blogs...
Over the festive period, myself and angling companion, Tom Scholey, had planned something totally different from our usual intense match fishing, in the way of a session pike fishing....
I was really pleased to be asked to fish with 4 other of my Barnsley team mates in the International Rules league at Barston Lakes near Birmingham. Its one of my favourite venues and...
This week saw me travel back to Lindholme lakes for the winter league, where the ‘winter’ side of things certainly showed through, it was bloody freezing! On the way there with...
The last two weeks have seen me fishing matches at Lindholme lakes. I Joined the Winter League along with Sir Tom that’s run alternate Sundays, and there’s always an open match...
The last two weekends have seen me fishing the Angling Times Winter League with Maver Barnsley. Round 2 was on the Horbury canal near Wakefield, and round 3 on the Stainforth canal. Horbury This...
Eyup everyone! Sorry for the delay of getting my blogs on lately, I’ve had loads of work to catch up with at school after missing a week for the WhiteAcres Maver festival….but it...
FOR the last 25 years Worksop Angling Supplies has supplied local anglers and a large customer base from the surrounding area. These include Sheffield and Barnsley to the north and...
The first match that I was to fish with the Barnsley Blacks was the NFA Division 1 National, which was held on the River Huntspill, King Sedgemoor and South Drains in Somerset. It’s...
When we start talking about pole fishing, there are loads of different items that spring to mind, many of which might seem confusing to the novice angler……elastics, bushes, bungs,...
This weekend saw me venture back down to Kiveton Waters, where I fished a few matches earlier in the year. The way people were talking, the fishing hadn’t changed much, and small...
I didn’t fish a match this weekend, although I did go pleasure fishing (supposedly practice for White Acres) on Sunday with Tom and Uncle Nibblet from Woodseats at a place called...
Preparation! We had a request for an article about preparation, so we’ve decided to do a three piece one. It’s got to be one of the most important aspects of match fishing. Fail...
Over the past few years, the UK has seen a new fish become very popular in commercial style fisheries, the ide! Many people get really mixed up as to what the fish actually is, “it’s...
The bream is an absolute legend of a fish. What more could an angler want than to be sat in the water on a vast Irish loch, with waves lapping up onto your platform, the tip of your...
Since the world champs I haven’t been doing much serious match fishing. I dropped onto one of the Carter Hall evening matched with Tom the other week, and had a lovely evenings fishing...
Eyup everybody, sorry for the lack of blogs I’ve put on lately, but the last three weeks have been really busy with fishing the Angling Times Winter League Final on the Nene, and...
The Drennan Super League was an absolute disaster for the Triana North team and me! I wrote about the practice match last month, where all the team did well, and the following week...
I’ve got to say as an angler that the chub is one of my Favourite fish to catch. Naturally, the chub is a river fish, although the development of commercial fisheries has seen the...
This weekend saw me fishing the NFA regional national which was held on the Stainforth and Keedby canal through Thorne. The event always sees quite a good turn out of quality teams,...
Perch have got to be one of the most under rated fish in fresh water. On the bank you hear loads of comments about them that aren’t all that good. But the perch has a lot more to...
On of the main events on the agenda at this time of the year is always the England Youth Trials. This year, the event took place at Birmingham’s Barston Lakes, a fantastic fishing...
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