A belated well done to Jack Damant who fished really well to win the 2016 Fish’O’Mania Junior event at Cudmore Fishery. Sixteen-year-old Jack from Ipswich won with 17.2kg, which included a healthy variety of species including carp, F1s, ide, barbel and skimmers. A great performance earned him £1,000 and the all-important Junior… Read more
Author: Jack Reid
Huge Rudd On First Trip
All-round angler, Matthew Fernandez from Southampton managed to slip the net under two personal best rudd during his first trip to a new venue. “With nothing to really go by on the signs of fish, I dropped in a swim on the end of a fresh wind. I located a… Read more
Supplex Fluorocarbon For Chub
The near-invisible properties of 0.13mm (2.6lb) Supplex Fluorocarbon helped Brian Gay fool this wily old chub from a local river. The angling journalist and film maker caught the fish in 18 inches of gin-clear water, using single maggot on a size 19 Kamasan B711 hook under a 1.2g Crystal Waggler. In Brian’s… Read more
Townsend Tames The Thames
Steve Townsend won Round 2 of the Oxford Summer League with a quality 42lb 9oz catch of bream and roach. The event saw seven teams of six on the Medley and Folly sections of the River Thames. It was a warm, blustery day with plenty of swimmers, dogs and boats,… Read more
Russian Carp On The Method
Sergey Kuzmin from Russia has caught his best-ever carp at 14.75kg (32lb 8oz) with Method Feeder tactics. The fish was caught on a 35g Flat Method Feeder with Dynamite groundbait and a plum-flavoured pop up. He used 0.23mm Feeder & Method Mono to an 8lb Carp Dacron hooklink and a… Read more
Good Sport On Tirelles Lake
Greg Sire had a productive match on Tirelles Lake at Cloyes sur le Loir, catching an estimated 300 fish for a section win and 2nd overall. The contest was split into two 2.5 hour heats with a lunchtime break in between. Greg’s catch weighed 9.55kg and consisted of roach, perch and two skimmer bream…. Read more