Jon Arthur reports back from a successful festival which saw him finally qualify for the prestigious £25,000 Parkdean Masters Final. For the past five or six years I have been making the annual pilgrimage down to White Acres in Cornwall to compete in the Preston Innovations Festival. This is the biggest… Read more
Category: Match Anglers
Remembering Two Angling Greats
Dean Barlow reports back from the Frank Barlow & Steve Toone Memorial. Now in its 18th year, it’s an event that pays respect to two larger than life characters who are sadly no longer with us. This year’s Memorial Match had a change of venue to the upper reaches of the… Read more
Fortune Favours The Brave
Wayne Swinscoe explains how a bold, single-minded attack with hemp and tares lead to a match winning net from the River Trent. After two days of the Burton Festival I was disappointed to be out of the running as far as the overall title was concerned, even though I’d caught double… Read more
Shallow Tricks
Our latest mini website article focuses on a very successful pole fishing technique that is affectionately called ‘slapping’. If you haven’t tried the tactic, it’s a devilishly simple trick that could put a few more fish in your keepnet this weekend! Download the article: Slap To Success (300Kb PDF file)
Martin Bowler On Specimen Roach
Martin Bowler is the cover star of this week’s Angling Times. Inside, the ‘Catching The Impossible’ television star passes on some of his immense knowledge on specimen roach. Also inside, Paul Yates spends a session after skimmer bream to demonstrate the thinking processes a top matchman goes through as he strives… Read more
Acolyte Carp Takes The Strain
Although putting any pole under this amount of pressure cannot be advised, we still feel that this striking image of Alan Scotthorne’s Acolyte Carp pole placed under immense strain shows why he rates it so highly! The fish was a foul-hooked barbel, hooked with pink Carp Bungee elastic in six metres of raging… Read more