Another well-known midlands angler enjoying fine fishing on the River Severn already this season is Des Taylor. Des has really been enjoying a purple patch of form recently with specimen fish of various species – in fact he told us he’d be confident right now of catching fish upstairs in… Read more

Taking the business of making fishing tackle pretty seriously, we probably don’t publish enough humorous photographs! Well here’s a good one courtesy of Stu Conroy – or is this the Creature from the Black Lagoon? The Lady of the Lake wielding Excalibur, or the man from Atlantis? Actually it is… Read more

Coventry’s legendary specimen angler Phil Smith can’t stop catching big fish at the present! After his recent success with lots of big stillwater Tench and then Scottish Roach, the lure of running water meant he enjoyed a few early season Barbel sessions too. First successful trip was to the Derbyshire… Read more

This picture shows Kamasan’s Kevin Cross in action at Oxfordshire’s Rolf’s Lake – photos by Drennan’s Paul Green. The match in question had been quite a struggle until the last 90 mins or so of the match, when Kev’s patient feeding of various lines started to pay dividends. He’d replumbed… Read more

Oxfordshire specimen angler Matt Micallef caught this quite superb 13lb 4oz Barbel from the Thames locally just last week! Matt was fishing alone deep into the evening when the fish took his Perfection Groundbaits Crayfish Boilie, and managed to get this self-timer photo despite inclement weather conditions. With the Thames… Read more

Shaun McNaughton (Thornaby) and Graham Airey (Billingham) both live close to the River Tees in the North East of England, and together took a fine haul of river Bream to start the season! Fishing a local stretch of the River, which is an ideal Bream venue now that the Tees… Read more