ATTENTION all anglers who fish pellets. Unless you want to run the risk of rifling through your other half’s underwear drawer with intent to steal, an imminent visit to your local supermarket or department store’s hosiery section is on the cards. Andy demonstrates the extent of his stocking fetish!Readers who want to uncover a hot new method – stocking pellets – need wait in suspenders…sorry,...
Fishing4Funs Tom Legge headed down to Hertfordshire to see members of one of Britain’s oldest clubs enjoying amazing bream sport on the little River Colne. Mark Cotterell impaled three lively red maggots on his size 14 hook four feet beneath a distinctively shaped ‘lollipop’ float. Dropping it in the edge, he shipped out 11 metres of his pole in a downstream direction then raised the tip to...
Willow Garth fishery is a well established fishery that has been producing good fishing for more than twenty years now but in recent years it has suffered from neglect becoming very overgrown both with weed in the water as well as on the bankside covering the pegs. A few years ago local matchman, Stuart Ward acquired the rights to the fishery and has Willowgarth Fisheryslowly but surely turned it into...
Fishing4Fun took a trip round the M25 see why North London teenager Gary Manoli rates day ticket Lake John - best known for specimen carp to 40lb - as one of the top silver fish match waters in the Home Counties. Perched atop his Rive seat box, the diminutive figure of Gary Manoli stood out amongst the 20 or so anglers dotted around the three acre perimeter of Lake John - for two reasons. Firstly,...
Winter carp fishing can be very different from the pile it in approach that can be very successful in the warmer months when the carp are gorging on food. Small baits such as maggots and casters and delicate presentation come to the fore while big positive baits like meat and corn on tackle you could land a speed boat on take a back seat. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the many snake type lakes,...
Wetlands fishery consists of two well stocked lakes on a waterfowl and wildlife reserve set in 32 acres of lakes and woodland and is located in the village of Sutton-cum Lound just outside Retford, Nottinghamshire. Both lakes are well stocked with carp well into double figures as well as plenty of bream, roach, ide and perch with match weight of over a hundred pounds not unusual in the warmer months....
Ian Snowden with a nice Fossdyke canal breamThe Fossdyke canal winds it way through Lincolnshire to connect the River Trent to the River Witham and has over the years offered excellent fishing even when those neighbouring rivers are un-fishable. Packed with roach, skimmers, bream, huge perch to close to five pounds, a 4lb 11oz perch has been weighed in a match, pike and a few tench it offers interesting...
Representing their country is every boys dream, whether it is football, rugby, hockey or even bowls. However, for one boy this dream has come true, JAKE MARSHALL who is representing his country for his second year at the sport he loves. I have always dreamed of fishing for England and last year this dream came true when I was selected to fish for the England under 16’s side in Portugal. Although...
When you see a match won with over a hundred and forty pounds in the early spring you know that the water, as well as the angler, must be a little bit special. Moat Lake on the Moon Lakes complex at Tattershall Lincolnshire was the venue and Windmill Pets and Tackle sponsored Dave Daniels the angler. We joined him for a closer look at his bagging approach on one of his favourite Lincolnshire venues. Swim...
Many anglers are under the impression that fishing bloodworm and joker is a complex art, practised only by a handful of top anglers across the country. Sheffield Angler, and fishing4fun blogger Mark Wragg, begs to differ and took fishing4fun to one of his regular haunts near Wentworth to show how a bloodworm approach can be a simple and effective way of catching fish, even when temperatures plummet. Wraggy’s...
Maver Barnsley Blacks legend Dennis White is without question one of the most famous and respected match anglers in the country having been winning at the highest level for more than forty years and despite the passing years and self admitted dodgy shoulder he is still a name to be reckoned with. Fishing4fun.co.uk joined him on one of his favourite venues Sally Walsh’s Dam for a session after the...
Winter fishing on still waters can be at best unpredictable with perhaps the worst time being after the first heavy frosts of the year so we were quite surprised when Triana North star Shane Crompton invited us to a gin clear three foot deep fishery after the first two freezing nights of the winter with the promise of a good bag of roach. Willow Garth fishery is one of those jewels that fishes well...
With the floods of 2007 ravaging the Don valley, right from its source in the hills above Sheffield down to its lower reaches below Doncaster, one would expect a visit to its banks just a couple of months later, to reveal a much changed landscape full of mud debris, and bulldozers. Frankly, this couldn’t be further from the truth, as when Garbolino Ossett ace Mick Lodge invited me to shoot a...
If you were to ask the majority of anglers to pick a bait that will get them a bite at any given time, they would almost certainly choose a maggot. They are a year round winner at all manner of venues, and as an added bonus they are cheap for anglers to get hold of. One man who is all to aware of the devastating effectiveness of maggot is Garbolino Ossett star Joe Carass, who has lately been enjoying...
When catching a lot of fish is on the cards, few baits are more effective than luncheon meat. Tom Scholey joins Garbolino Ossett ace Andy Geldart to find out his approach with the bait…… Meat is undoubtedly one of the most popular commercial baits in warmer months. A real favourite with carp of all sizes, meat will also attract bites from the better silvers in the area, meaning a truly...
Love them or hate them, pellets are the number one bait on commercial fisheries. Indeed, at a lot of waters they are even the best bait to fish for the silvers! Although to anglers, they may seem like unnatural bait, to a lot of the stocked fish that have been reared on them from birth, they are probably the most natural bait they ever see. To detail all the ways in which pellets can be fished in one...
To do consistently well on the modern match scene, versatility is essential. Having the ability to adopt your approach to suit how the venue is fishing is a vital skill, and if you get it right it will increase your success rate no end. One of the most versatile methods in a match anglers armoury is chopped worm and caster, as it will catch anything that swims, and allow you to adopt your approach...
Rob with a good sized Hayfield carpDespite the fact that paste accounts for hundreds of ton up bags of carp, many anglers are scared to try it, thinking it too finicky and frustrating a method to waste time on. We asked paste maestro Rob Hitchens to show us how it should be done, on a venue where he once won 40 matches on the trot with the method, Hayfield Lakes. Ironically, before the feature began,...
The puller, or sliding stick, is a method which catches tons of silver fish every summer on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire circuit. Invented by the late Bernard Bryan, and later developed by his prodigee, Roger Pryor, a number of anglers have now added their own refinements to devastating effect. One such is Anthony Smith who is emerging as one of the finest exponents of the art of pulling (fish...
They’ve sprouted up seemingly out of nowhere. Their fans reckon they’re magic, and often absolutely deadly! And if you fish up in the water at long range for carp, you’ll want to pick some straight away. We’re talking Mushrooms. Magic Mushrooms. Mushrooms! On deep irrigation reservoirs which comprise many of the larger match carp waters in the Fenland region, a quiet revolution has been taking...
Red Revolution! Alternatively it could be green, black or brown - for the new Atomic Cloud additive from GOT Baits comes in four colours and flavours. Whichever you choose, all the evidence suggests it’s likely to cause a big bang. Tom Legge joined creator Trevor Price for a demonstration at Alders Farm. Trevor Price dunked his pole cup into a bait box containing a vivid red liquid, scooped up...
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