With his mum and dad owning Kiveton Waters, one of the most popular venues in the south east of Sheffield, it is no surprise that young Jake Dye knows a thing or two about commercial carp fishing. This is not the only string to the Creswell youngsters bow however, he is equally at home catching silver fish, forming an integral part of the Tricast Calder squad. We took Jake off his home turf to Carterhall...
After a few really tough winter matches, scratching around for a few bites on frozen carp puddles me and Matt Godfrey were looking for something different to add a bit of excitement to our festive period. Its all to easy for us as match anglers to become stuck in a rut, visiting the same venues and fishing the same methods, and once in a while it is good to break the mould and go and do something...
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. It was Christmas Eve, and all the family were getting a bit irate with the pressures of Christmas, so off we went at 6am in the morning, heading for the flan drain lands around Lincolnshire. It’s an area where we both...
Hampshire’s Sparsholt College is undoubtedly Britain’s top educational establishment for all things fishy! Tom Legge took a tour to see how our future fishery managers, scientists and suppliers learn the many and various necessary skills. Most anglers dream of combining their hobby and job at some stage in their lives. I certainly did, eventually taking the angling journalism route after a couple...
As the match organiser at the prolific Lakeside fishery Malc ‘Thommo’ Thompson knows the venue like the back of his hand so when he invited us along for an insight into his approach to the fishery we leapt at the chance and joined him on a cold blustery spring day for a match on the main match lake targeting the fishery’s prolific stocks of silver fish. Venue Intro Lakeside Fishery in Ranskill...
Ferryboat Farm Fishery is a mature horseshoe shaped lake with widths varying from 16m to some thirty plus metres. Although it does hold plenty of F1 carp, being a mature lake it has plenty of other species in it including big carp well into double figures, roach to over 2lb, bream to 7lb+, tench, perch, crucians, rudd, gudgeon and a few chub. The match record is currently held with a 56lb bag of carp...
The Skegness and Mablethorpe area of the east coast is a popular holiday destination for anglers , and while there is an abundance of venues for the holiday angler to visit, this one is a little different. Set just far enough off the beaten track as to keep it tranquil and peaceful, Joy of Koi, situated near Saltfleet, has the look of a fishery that has been open much longer than its couple of year...
At the end of autumn, very often the fishing goes down the pan for a week or two while the fish get used to the sudden change in conditions. It was during this topsy turvy time of year that I joined British Telecom angling club for a match on the usually prolific Island Pond at Scunthorpe’s Messingham Sands fishery. The club has evolved from the much bigger inter-departmental “nationals” which...
Venue Introduction The Stainforth and Keadby Canal around Thorne and Stainforth has to be one of the fairest and most consistent canals in our region offering fabulous small roach, perch and skimmer sport in the summer on squatts while the bloodworm takes over in the winter months, as well as excellent bream and chub fishing throughout the year in the right areas. Today we are going to the Stainforth...
Summer fishing on many commercials means catching fish up in the water and the humble caster is perhaps the top all round bait for the job. Triana North star Bryan Hawkes is a lover of fishing the shell ‘up in the air’ and Fishingforfun.co.uk joined him at Lodge Farm Fishery for some insights. Lodge Farm Fishery lies on the border between Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire and consists of five...
Garbolino sponsored former Fish-o-mania champion Dave Pimlott has been a regular at Woodlands for the last ten years and with at least thirty wins and countless placings under his belt is one of the most consistent scorers here. Fishing4fun.co.uk joined him on a match to find out some of his secrets. Woodlands Fisheries in Carlton Minniot, near Thirsk is perhaps the biggest, best, and most popular...
When Sheffield match star Alex Mitchell acquired one of the city’s top venues, local anglers knew it was surely a match made in heaven. Tom Scholey met up with Alex for a lesson in feeder fishing, and a chat about what lies in store for Aston Ponds. Any angler who can earn their place in the star studded Barnsley Blacks line up at the tender age of just 21 clearly has a natural aptitude for angling,...
In the latest of our Clubstar V Superstar challenge matches, Billingham AC angler Ian Ward bravely stepped forward to take on the challenge, taking Kieron Rich on Maple Lake at the prolific Oaks complex at Sessay. “I have had a fair bit of success on this lake in the past just fishing across to the far bank with the pellet. I normally seem to attract a few small F1s to begin with and then the...
Fishing for match sized carp can be, as most anglers know, a complicated business at times. With so many methods, baits and tactics to choose from, we can be left bewildered as to the most effective way to catch what is in front of us. One angler who understands match carping better than most is Daiwa Trentmen star Kevin Baxter, who agreed to talk us through some of his tricks on the Croft Pool at...
It is one of our regions biggest and most popular match venues. In the summer months, big weights are always needed to win here. With the five main match lakes all looking pretty much the same, and containing large heads of both carp and silverfish, it provides a very even playing field , and has played host to countless national finals and semi finals over the years. ‘Fishing4Fun’ joins local...
At a time of year when bites can be hard to come by on Commercials, some anglers are returning to canals and enjoying busy sport. But up on Hertfordshire’s Grand Union, photo/journalist Fred Davies spent a day with two – Lol Breach and Phil Speakman – who never went away in the first place! In an effort to stay ahead of the game, practice is vital if you want to be competitive in...
With carp-packed lakes in delightful surroundings, Alders Farm near Milton Keynes draws match, pleasure and specimen anglers from across the south-central Midlands. But whenever the GOT Baits crew are in town, the already busy action reaches fever pitch. Fishing 4 Fun’s Tom Legge joined Gary Thorpe and Mick McMillan for a hauling masterclass… Despite missing his ninth bite in as many drops,...
We catch up with Andy Hart in the second stage of his bid to bank ten species in 24 hours on the Warwickshire Avon. In part two, we cover the final 12 hours – which didn’t pan out quite as planned…Words and Pix: Tom Legge Still elated from the capture of a 23lb 6oz mirror carp, and with eight species in total already chalked up, Andy eases his van into Warwick’s rush hour traffic...
With more and more northern anglers making the pilgrimage to Southern bagging Mecca White Acres, Fishing4Fun editor Tom Scholey decided to join them on the recent Maver and Preston festivals. With competition including the likes of Alan and Sandra Scotthorne, Tommy Pickering, Darren Cox, Andy Geldart, and Dean Smith, things were never going to be easy… As I discovered in March, competing against...
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