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FISH don’t come anymore impressive than this 440 lb arapaima that fell to former Carp Society children’s fish-in organizer Alan Atkins during a trip to Gillhams, on the island of Krabi, Thailand.
Fishing at 60 metres to a floating hyacinth bed, the fish took Alan one hour to land after taking one of the venue’s own high protein pellets.
Venue boss Stuart
THE angling world has been in shock following a boating tragedy for two pike anglers on the ultra dangerous Cromwell Weir on the River Trent in Nottinghamshire.
Ian Steel, 57, and best pal Neville Payne, 48, both from Pocklington, North Yorkshire, were after specimen pike at the British Waterways-controlled weir when the disaster struck.
Their small aluminium boat was sucked underneath the
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WINTER ROACH ADVICE – We join a matchman outside Tesco to put together a bag of silver fish.
MR CRABTREE “GOT ME HOOKED” – John Bailey on the legend, and an exciting new project.
ULTIMATE GUIDE TO
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West Midlands Angler’s Mail Kamasan Qualifiers for January 21/22 2012.
* Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm WL, House Pools 1 and 2, New and Club Pools, Sat. 84. Andy Moores (Garbolino Bag ‘Em Baits) 77-1-0, F1s,
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North West Angler’s Mail Kamasan Qualifiers for January 21/22 2012.
* Stapeley Cudmore, Whitmore, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Sun. Winter League, Final Round, Suez and Brewsters Canals, Arena, Milo and New Pools, 56. Paul Carnwell (MAP/Garbolino/Bait Tech)
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North East Angler’s Mail Kamasan Qualifiers for January 21/22, 2012.
*Leeds DASA, River Ouse, Hunters Lodge to Linton. Sun. 58. Scott Lister (Yarm) 6-11-0, roach on feeder and maggot, peg 284; Dave Miles (Leeds Angling Centre)
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London and South Angler’s Mail Kamasan Qualifiers for January 21/22, 2012.
*Ockendon Bait & Tackle, Puddledock Farm, near Upminster, Essex. Sun. Snake Lake. 52. Steve Banks (Ockendon Bait & Tackle) 114-0-0, 35 carp to 8 lb, maggot
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East Midlands Angler’s Mail Kamasan Qualifiers for January 21/22 2012.
* Barford Teams Of Five Winter League, Barford Pleasure, Railway and Willow lakes near Norwich. Sun. 50. Brian Bygraves (Norwich and District AA) 71-5-0, carp
CRAFTY tactics have been fooling some chunky perch, topped by a jumbo 5 lb 8 oz stripy for Chris Elsey.
He mounted prawn on a size 6 barbless Drennan Super Specialist hook in conjunction with a small maggot feeder at a small West Sussex day ticket venue.
For the full amazing story of this and other perch catches, grab this week’s Angler’s Mail
THE past week was a productive one of many stretches of river and river record barbel – from venues that don’t dominate the news – were the star catches.
The River Rother in West Sussex had its barbel record smashed with a 16 lb 12 oz fish reported to Dave Chambers.
Derbyshire’s River Derwent has produced a stunning 15 lb 8 oz
THE angling community got the news it feared last week with the coalition government announcing the London to Birmingham High Speed 2 rail link will DEFINITLEY go ahead.
Destroying the fishing at historic fisheries was always going to be a low priority for the scheme as it is going to cost £32.7 BILLION – and these costs are likely to rise
A FREE gift from Angler’s Mail played a part in the capture of this stunning 30 lb 3 oz River Trent pike.
Chris Wardle picked-up some free bait flags (pictured below) with our recent bumper double issue and soon put them to good use bagging the big ‘un.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire-based Chris said: ‘Prior to this fish I had 11 sessions and
We’ve got a lively week for competitions – with £1,500 of Daiwa reels being offered in the magazine and some bonus comps on the Angler’sMail magazine Facebook.
Daiwa’s new Mini Regal BR reels (pictured above) are offered in the magazine with ten pairs to be won.
A bonus comp to win a pair appears on our Facebook wall, with a simple question
YOUTH has shone through in angling with Alfie Russell being named the Angler’s Mail-Fox Specimen Cup winner for 2011.
The 13-year-old big fish prodigy fought off strong competition headed by former champion Ken Brown who accounted for several weekly awards from his stints at a Hertfordshire reservoir, topped by a British record-breaking perch scaling 6 lb 4 oz.
However Alfie got the
DUBBED “The Silent Assassin” the short-tailed freshwater stingray is the fascinating target of Jeremy Wade in the third episode of his latest River Monsters series on ITV.
Jeremy, seen recently in Angler’s Mail magazine, and whose TV show times are listed in the latest mags, travels to the Paraná River in the remote northeast corner of Argentina.
He starts out to investigate
