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Win Richworth's New N-V Boilies

Posted on April 15, 2012

Due to the massive interest in our new N-V bait range, we thought it was time to answer some of your questions on what is our most advanced boilie ever. The base itself is made up of eleven separate ingredients, including high quality fishmeal, GLM plus a number of natura...

Bob Church - Trout

Posted on April 2, 2012

From the smile on his face and the twinkle in his eye you would have thought the world of angling had just captured someone’s imagination, but given the owner had wetted a line for more years than he cared to remember it was, to me, a true triumph and why the man in ques...

Drennan Keepnet Giveaway!

Posted on March 15, 2012

THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED Drennan's camouflage specialist keepnets have a carpsack base for great fish protection plus a quick sink facility with weighted base rings.  The large diametre also means plenty of room for your prize catch to sit in. Available in 2 sizes...

Spring's Here!

Posted on March 15, 2012

The previous night had been an uncomfortable one sheltering as best I could from a rainstorm and then a thousand biting midges energised by the moisture.  My friend Steve Rowley and I had forgone the comforts of home for a bed chair for the opportunity of seeing dawn arr...

Carp Season

Posted on March 9, 2012

We all have our favourite items of tackle but nothing can be more important than the hook at the end of the other paraphernalia.  A lack of sharpness will mean that if you rely on a bolt rig you never receive a bite in the first place and then once this job has been done...

Field-testing on the Wye

Posted on March 4, 2012

The float not so much sailed downstream but waddled with its in built buoyancy, fighting against the river’s will to pull it under.  The aptly name ‘dragger’ though had been designed purposely to overcome such a situation while allowing the hookbait to be placed on the ...

Pitstop Zander 2

Posted on February 16, 2012

By Aurel Hernyak We’d left our ‘zander-pit’ at the end of my last blog here with the wish that autumn rains hopefully arrive soon and the following high water level on the river Danube is going to fill our favourite gravel pit with water and with zander of huge proportio...

Win Lampard's Way With Chub DVD

Posted on February 2, 2012

Lampard's Way With Chub - DVD If you want to know how to catch big chub, who could be a better teacher than Terry Lampard? Join Martin Bowler as he investigates what makes the greatest specimen hunter ever tick. Nothing is held back and you not only gain an insight into t...

With Theo on the Severn

Posted on January 31, 2012

There had been no warning, just a savage surge of energy conducted through the monofilament and into the rod tip.  Once lifeless it now was the conductor, which linked me to the barbel, and as it strained under pressure I wondered how long could it maintain the connectio...