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For most carp anglers, choosing the right set of rods is fundamental to their success and enjoyment of the sport. Deciding what rods to go for is a personal choice that should take account of the size and types of water you plan to fish, together with casting ability and style. The good news with SONIK, is that you can buy a set of top of the range carp rods without breaking the bank. Rods that excel in accurately propelling your bait as far as required, whilst retaining great balance and sensitivity when it comes to playing the ... [full story]

After reporting the capture of The Serpentines ‘Big Linear’ on the NWC Forum recently, Dan Hepworth agreed to pen a few words about the session which brought about its downfall. Dan takes up the story about his first session of the season; “I arrived at the Serpe’ on the 15th of June. We had made an agreement that we could cast in at midnight as we had done the work parties. I chose peg 14 as I had seen my target fish spending a lot of time there during the close season, and come the magical hour I positioned ... [full story]

The 2009 Angling Trust Cadets, Juniors, & Intermediates National Championship took place on Saturday 4th July at Cudmore Fishery, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Over 200 youngsters aged between 10 and 20 years of age took part in the event all hoping to go home with a winning medal and National winning title. Congratulations to Smartbait Leeds, who took the winning title in the Cadets Championship for the forth consecutive year winning gold with 25 points and a weight of 27.02kg. Tameside Fox Match were in second place with 22 points and 28.93kg to take the silver medal. The bronze was won by Maver Farnborough with 17 points and 18.13kg. ... [full story]

The Vulcan Reservoir is fishing very well f1carp, tench, skimmers, roach, ide and carp are all providing some great sport, maggot, caster, corn, bread, meat, pellet will have you taking fish on a regular basis. The Yew Tree Reservoir is fishing very well for big skimmers, bream, carp, tench, rudd and perch, but what’s happened to the roach? this remains a mystery, this water was once renowned for its big bags of roach but now they seem to disappeared. The River Dane, at Ravenscroft is producing some good catches of chub, barbel, dace, roach and gudgeon. The Sankey Brook is ... [full story]

The Angling Trust is delighted to announce that Daiwa Sports have confirmed they will be sponsoring the Angling Trust Schools National Championships in 2009.The event is a team competition with five anglers in each team. This year we have 30 teams taking part a total of 150 youngsters fishing for £4,000 of equipment. This Championship takes place on Wednesday 15th July 2009 at Daiwa Hallcroft Fishery, Hallcroft Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 7RA. The competition is open to boys and girls, the age group is from Year 7 up to Year 11 (and ... [full story]

There have been some fantastic images entered so far in this month’s NWC Photo Comp.   To take a closer look just CLICK HERE You’ve still got just over a week to get your entries in, so if you’ve been out and about this month why not enter an image. The rules are as follows; * You can enter up to ten images per month, which can be of fish, waterscapes, or anything fishing related. * Images have to be taken within the competition month, i.e. images entered into the June comp have to have ... [full story]

The ruck returns! The Barra-ruk was discontinued last year but returns in 2009 as a much improved version.  When we got the luggage resampled after deciding to leave the product out of the 2008 range, Paul Terry took the reworked sample and used it non stop for over a year.  So impressed was he with the performance that he made amendments to the product making it even better and we have now relaunched the product for 2009 - and at a massively reduced price.  Bigger than before the side pocket will comfortably take our 'chill-out' reovery sling and ... [full story]

OnlineFishing.tv has made all its programmes available on a 'Pay Per View' basis. Visitors to the Internet channel that covers all angling disciplines now have the option of subscribing so they can watch everything, or picking and choosing their favourite shows for just £1 a show. There's also a special offer – if you buy four shows on a pay per view basis, you get the fifth one free. "It's all about giving people options," said head of channel Gareth Purnell. "Some of our customers said they would rather pick and choose the shows that cover their kind of ... [full story]

The joint statement put out recently by the Angling Trust, Natural England and the Environment Agency was the product of the first of many meetings about otters and fisheries. It was based on the information available at the meeting. Since then, anglers have contacted us reporting problems on other waters. The Trust has been set up to represent the views of all anglers, based on good quality information, and we have therefore produced a questionnaire for anglers to let us know what is going on in the rivers and stillwaters they know best. [click here for more details] We need to understand more about what and where the ... [full story]

With only three rounds left to this years Fish’O’mania Grand Final at Cudmore the competitors arrived at the Woodlands Lakes at Carlton Miniott, North Yorkshire with high expectations that the fishery would live upto its reputation of high scoring venue. Though some big name anglers had made the long journey to Woodlands it was Durham angler Tony Robertson fishing in his first ever Fish’O’mania qualifier that took full advantage of his extensive knowledge of the venue to come out the overall winner on the day.  A regular competitor at Woodlands, Tony drew peg 11 in the centre of the length on Skylark to finish with 77lb-2oz giving him almost a ... [full story]