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 Lakeside Fisheries on a fairly regular basis for the last three years, fishing the Woodseats Winter League and then being lucky enough to win the venues own Summer League last year. For those who don’t know Ranskill,...
If you were to approach ten anglers and ask them there opinions on meat fishing, the chances are five of them would love it and five of them would hate it. Along with paste fishing, it tends to provoke extreme responses in anglers, with some being supremely confident in the method and some having next to no faith in it at all. There is no doubt that it can be a devastating bait on its day, with some...
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, connectorss, pull bungs, stora bungs, locking bushes, internal, external, hydro, hollow, solid, latex, dacron, lubricant it just goes on! In this article, we hope to explain about different kinds of elastics, what they’re...
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 to prepare….prepare to fail! Many people, especially non-anglers, don’t see the preparation side of angling, and to them you simply chuck the gear in the car, get to the bank, put a worm on the hook and chuck it in,...
The main advantages of fishing with chopped worms and casters is the diversity of the bait, it will catch everything that swims. In a lot of respects, this makes it a particularly useful tool to the club angler, as the majority of clubs book six or seven matches all at different venues, so nine times out of ten as an angler you are turning up to a venue blind, or with very little knowledge of what...
Pellets are probably the cheapest and most widely available bait of them all. It will be difficult to cover every aspect of pellet fishing in detail within one article, so what I will try and do is talk through the basics of a few different ways of fishing the pellet with a view to returning to a few of them in more detail at a later date. I find the term ‘natural bait’ a strange one, as to the...
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 a dace, roach, rudd, chub, bleak, hybrid” they say………well, actually, it’s an ide. The fish originates from Scandinavia, and is not actually natural is British waters, it has only been stocked by British fishery...
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 rod slowly nodding right round before you pick up, ‘CLUNK’, and feel the solid thumping of another big slab on the other end?! The bream is one of the most widespread fish across Europe, with its distribution stretching...
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 species stocked in all kinds of waters nowadays, offering great sport to anglers throughout the country. It has even been caught in brackish waters in river mouths believe it or not! The chub is one of the most widespread...
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 in than just been a spiky little critter. It’s one on the hardest fighting fish out there pound for pound and will eat almost anything! Most anglers first ever fish is a perch! The perch is a predatory fish, usually well...
Less than a mile from the Santa Pod track – famed Worldwide for dragster racing – lies a tranquil haven called Wold Farm Fisheries. Dean Jones of Northamptonshire club Rushden Rods brought us here to strut his stuff on the Moat Pool where no carp are stocked yet big bags are always on the cards. I remember a kid in my class at secondary school used to have ‘Santa Pod Raceway’ stickers all over...
Squatt fishing is one of those methods that anglers either love or hate, but if you want to be an all-round match angler nowadays its well worth knowing the basics of it! The Squatt is not just a bait for catching bits on canals; it makes a great feed bait in groundbait, and doesn’t wriggle into the silt on the bottom, unlike maggots and pinkies. Large bream weights have been caught by putting squats...
This is a groundbait we have been using on our match circuit for many years to great effect for carp and bream. It is simple to make and more importantly it is cheap. The first things you need for the process are: Bait Box Kettle Clingfilm 4 mm hard pellets. ( Buy in bulk to make it cheaper ) Directions Fill the bait box to just below the rim with pellets. If you want four pints of groundbait use...
The waggler is one of the oldest methods ever used in angling. It has always been a popular method with all forms of fisherman, from match, to pleasure anglers, and the specimen boys too. The waggler float itself consists of a bottom end only float, where the float is locked onto the line with shot, although, as you will see in this article, other adaptations have evolved. The waggler has taken a...
The tench has got to be one of the most satisfying fish to catch in fresh water. It offers everything, from a really hard scrap to beautiful colours, and even comes in gold! The tench is a really muscular fish, very sturdily built, and has really tiny scales which are embedded in its skin to give the fish a smooth finish. The colour of a tench is a lovely olive green colour along the back, which fades...
Threading Up a Pole Top Kit You will need… A top kit Some elastic A diamond eye pole threader A bung A bush A junior hack saw 1) The very first stage of threading up a top kit is to cut the kit back using a hack saw so that the correct size of bush can be accommodated. It is highly recommended that you cut all your kits back to the same length. If the top kits are not cut back far enough the elastic...
The Rudd is a fantastic fish to catch, and will guarantee bites all year round. At first glance the Rudd looks very similar to a roach, and it’s easy for a new angler to think they are the same species. The Rudd is a much deeper fish, and its dorsal fin is much further back than that of the Roach. It has a flat–sided body and quite a small mouth, which curves obliquely upwards to suit its surface...
Fishing4fun’s Gaz Malham takes us for a day after grayling on northern rivers. Few coarse anglers bother with fishing for the ‘lady of the stream’, thinking the grayling to be a game fish to be caught on the fly. They were stocked during the 19th century into most of the country’s rivers by game anglers to provide sport during the trout closed season. The grayling is in reality a coarse...
Taking the step up from pleasure angler to match angler is regarded by many as a daunting move. After all, you are going from a pastime when the result is almost secondary to the day out, to a pastime where the result counts for everything. From a tactical point of view, the gulf between the two occupations are not as great as you may think however. The chances are, that if you are considering stepping...
Often called the ‘redfin’ the roach is one of the most abundant and popular species in the British Isles with its slim silver body, greenish blue back and distinctive red fins a familiar sight to most fishermen. It thrives in a wide range of aquatic environments, from the murkiest looking urban canals and ponds to huge clear reservoirs and grand fast flowing rivers, making it readily available...
The torpedo shaped, big mouthed chub is a hard fighting river species that can be found in all regions of England and Wales as well as in a few Southern Scottish rivers. With its brassy flanks, dark green back and distinctive white lips the chub can be found in almost all flowing water from tiny streams you could jump across to the widest deepest rivers. It is also found in some still waters especially...
Introduced into the country as a food source by monks in the Middle Ages the carp is now one of our most widespread and popular coarse fish swimming in our waters. It is the biggest coarse fish in British waters that has tested specialist carp angler’s tackle up and down the country for many years. More recently, since the advent of commercial fisheries in the eighties, and the subsequent stockings...
It is vitally important to the future of our sport that all the fish we catch are returned to the water in as good condition as they were in before we caught them. Damage we cause them, even if it is accidental, will inevitably lead to the fish being weakened or even dying so it is our duty to ensure we treat them as well as we can to ensure they swim away healthily and continue to provide sport for...
Open ended feeder fishing is amongst the most popular and effective methods on waters with a large head of fish, where positive methods work well. The strength of the method is its capacity to allow an angler to feed at range as little or as much as they want at a given time. From laying down a large bed of feed in anticipation of a shoal of bream, to regularly depositing feed in a given area to build...
Hard chrysalis of a maggot approx 5mm in size. Ideal for: Roach, bream, chub and barbel. Where from: Good fishing tackle shops. The life cycle of the blue bottle fly starts from the egg which hatches into the maggot which then changes into the chrysalis before finally hatching as the fly.The caster is the chrysalis stage of this development and varies from a light, creamy colour initially to almost...
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