David Meek decided to visit an old spot on a stretch of his local river that he hadn’t fished for a few years and was rewarded with some impressive roach. Targetting a small slack area just downstream, David loose fed maggots by hand and used a simple trotting setup to slowly ease… Read more
Mike Woods and his friend Kieran have had some great success on their local Norfolk Broads waterways using AS Pole Rigs. “After finding the fish at my brother’s boat mooring in Brundall we just had to return to have a proper go,” Mike explained. “Tactics were very simple, fishing 4m whips to… Read more
Kev Hewitt caught this stunning brace of pristine winter roach on feeder tactics, the biggest tipping the scales to 1lb 14oz. Kev caught these along with a number of good sized roach during a recent session on Birch Carp Syndicate in Wales. Kev’s setup consisted of a MatchPro Ultralight Bomb and… Read more
This week’s Angler’s Mail has a great ‘Action Replay’ article on Steve Hemingray amassing a quality mixed bag from a commercial fishery. The Drennan Team England ace spends an eventful day at Packington Somers Fishery to demonstrate the thought processes this former European Champion goes through to keep bites coming. Also inside the same issue, Mail… Read more
Simon Willsmore lifts the lid on his big-perch tactics in this week’s Angling Times, out in the shops today. Inside, the ace matchman and England international hits the canal towpath to show you the excellent winter sport that can be had with this prehistoric-looking species. On the specimen trail, Martin Bowler proves… Read more
England ace Steve Hemingray won Round One of the Meadowlands Silverfish League at the weekend with a fine 34lb catch of skimmers. On a day that saw the entire country hit hard by gale-force winds, the former European Champion opted for close-range feeder tactics to amass the winning bag. In fact, he… Read more
