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Total-Fishing.com Donates To Jeff Moors Memorial

Total-Fishing.com Donates To Jeff Moors Memorial

28 Jul 2010

Total-Fishing.com is donating over £1000 to the Jeff Moors Memorial Fund to be put towards trophies and to go to the Junior Angling Development Centre at Border Fisheries.

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Neil Goes Shallow For £25,000

Neil Goes Shallow For £25,000

20 Jul 2010

The Midlands can boast the new Fish O Mania champion in Shakespeare’s Neil McKinnon, who is a cool £25,000 better off following the Sky Sports televised final on Saturday.

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Total-Fishing So Close To Promotion

Total-Fishing So Close To Promotion

13 Jul 2010

Well would you Adam and Eve it? Total-FishingClub came within an ace of being promoted to Division One at the weekend, despite most of us never having even seen the Erewash Canal before.

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For

09 Jul 2010

I’ve been chatting to Dave Johnson of MatchAngler.com a fair bit since he’s been back from the World Champs in Spain. It sounds like it was a great venue and I’m sad I missed it in many ways. It’s only the second World Champs I’ve not fished in the last 15 years, and the other one was in Russia!

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Lucas Takes The Club Champs

Lucas Takes The Club Champs

29 Jun 2010

Barston Lakes hosted the Total-FishingClub.com Championships on Saturday and despite the anglers expecting a tough event in the hot conditions, it produced a really tight match with everyone taking a decent weight to the scales and an average of 37lb.

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Shakespeare Fifth In World Club Championships

Shakespeare Fifth In World Club Championships

15 Jun 2010

Shakespeare can hold their heads high after an excellent effort in the biggest ever World Club Championships saw them finish fifth of the 31 competing teams.

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King Arthur Of Colemans

King Arthur Of Colemans

24 May 2010

Coventry rod Jon Arthur was crowned the King of Colemans Cottage in a dramatic sprint finish during round one of the prestigious Preston Innovations sponsored UK Angling Championships.

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Opening Up The Towpath

Opening Up The Towpath

19 May 2010

An innovative new scheme from British Waterways allows anglers to fish hundreds of stretches of unrented canal for just £20 – and only a tenner if you’re a member of the Angling Trust.

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Engine Sparks Into From

Engine Sparks Into From

30 Apr 2010

It looks like Birmingham’s Earlswood Lakes is hitting form with news reaching me of an impressive 168lb winning bag of carp this week.

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The Biggest Match In History?

The Biggest Match In History?

12 Apr 2010

Larford Lakes is shaking up the fishing scene by announcing the biggest prize in match fishing – a winner takes all showdown with up to £100,000 to the winner.

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New Fishing Show For Second City?

New Fishing Show For Second City?

29 Mar 2010

Birmingham could host a brand new fishing show off the back of the popular National Boat, Caravan and Outdoor Show in February 2010.

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Swann Sticks His Neck Out

Swann Sticks His Neck Out

25 Mar 2010

Robert Swann ended the season in style with what could be a river record barbel from the Warwickshire Avon.

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TV Tribute To Ivan Marks

TV Tribute To Ivan Marks

16 Mar 2010

I’m delighted that OnlineFishing.tv will be filming at this year’s Ivan Mark’s Festival to create a TV tribute to the greatest match angler of them all.

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Where Have The Severn Roach Gone?

Where Have The Severn Roach Gone?

08 Mar 2010

River Severn anglers have been left scratching their heads as one of the most prolific sections for silver fish, Shrewsbury, seems almost devoid of them.

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Last Chance For Some Running Water Sport

Last Chance For Some Running Water Sport

03 Mar 2010

Vote on the venue for the Total-FishingClub Championships....

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River Severn Tops For Big Zander

River Severn Tops For Big Zander

24 Feb 2010

The River Severn has produced the biggest zander ever caught by design in the UK – a 20lb 2oz beauty.

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Mick Helps His Mate To A Whopper

Mick Helps His Mate To A Whopper

15 Feb 2010

The West Midlander at the centre of a record zander claim has now witnessed the biggest pike of the season – a 40lb whopper.

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Huge 5lb 2oz Perch Landed By Match Angler

Huge 5lb 2oz Perch Landed By Match Angler

09 Feb 2010

The Total-Fishing.com forum has been buzzing this week with the news that a 5lb plus perch has been caught in a match… and on very light tackle.

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Close Shave For Charity Fishing Event

Close Shave For Charity Fishing Event

02 Feb 2010

Barston Lakes is running an all-star charity Pairs Match to raise money for Birmingham Children's Hospital – and the more money anglers can raise, the more of a fool organiser Lee Woodhouse is prepared to make of himself!

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Total-Fishing Club World Series Dates 2010

Total-Fishing Club World Series Dates 2010

26 Jan 2010

The Southern Leg of the Total-FishingClub World Series has been booked for Monks Lake Two on Saturday June 5th…

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Larford Secures Big Money Club Match

Larford Secures Big Money Club Match

18 Jan 2010

Maver Larford Lakes will host the final of the first £50,000 event for match anglers, with the event booked for Saturday October 2nd.

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Fisheries Urged To Smash The Ice

Fisheries Urged To Smash The Ice

12 Jan 2010

Britain’s current Arctic freeze-up could lead to an explosion in the number of fish deaths in stillwater fisheries. As a result, venue owners are being urged to take immediate steps to protect stocks during the current cold snap.

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Rivers Can Help You Beat The Big Freeze

Rivers Can Help You Beat The Big Freeze

06 Jan 2010

With a couple of inches of ice on most of the stillwaters and canals in the region, it’s only the hardened matchmen who are going to be looking for stillwater sport for the next few days, armed of course with all manner of ice breakers

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Arthur Knows The Crack!

Arthur Knows The Crack!

23 Dec 2009

Twenty teams of three braved the cold for the second round of the Hankat Winter League run by Lee Woodhouse, and for some reason the area that fished best last time – the Dixon street length – was right off form, with several dry nets.

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Midlands Set For £50,000 Fishing Final

Midlands Set For £50,000 Fishing Final

15 Dec 2009

The Midlands looks set to host the final of a new £50,000 club angling event run through bait company Willis Worms.

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Christmas Success For Birthday Boy Rob

Christmas Success For Birthday Boy Rob

14 Dec 2009

Rob Swain won the big Christmas match at Packington Somers just in time for his 57th birthday this week.

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Bewdley Hitting The Heights

Bewdley Hitting The Heights

03 Dec 2009

The Bewdley stretch of the River Severn has been providing excellent barbel sport over the last fortnight, with some experts claiming it to be in its best form for years. And what’s more anglers are catching on traditional tactics like maggot and hemp feeder.

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Festive Fish Boost For Beleaguered Trent

Festive Fish Boost For Beleaguered Trent

26 Nov 2009

Stretches of the River Trent and Tame that were badly affected by recent pollution incidents will get an early Christmas stocking of thousands of baby fish this winter.

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Tunnel Booked For Supercup Final

Tunnel Booked For Supercup Final

19 Nov 2009

Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery has been booked to host the prestigious Van den Eynde Supercup final for the first time.

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Grafham Produces Record Zander

Grafham Produces Record Zander

10 Nov 2009

The big from the region this week is that a Midlander has set a potential new British zander record with a magnificent 22lb fish at Anglian Water’s Grafham Water.

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Winter Leagues Underway

Winter Leagues Underway

27 Oct 2009

The winter leagues are underway and this area is home to three of the biggest in the country – and two of them are on commercial fisheries.

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Marukyu Baits Launch

Marukyu Baits Launch

21 Oct 2009

The big news at the Tackle and Guns show was the launch of a new Japanese bait range with some weird new ingredients…

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Has the maggot turned on the Severn?

Has the maggot turned on the Severn?

13 Oct 2009

For years now I’ve been telling anyone who is looking to catch barbel on the River Severn, and most other rivers for that matter, to concentrate on just one bait; pellets.

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Howard Retires From Lane's Tackle Shop

Howard Retires From Lane's Tackle Shop

29 Sep 2009

Howard Humphrey is retiring from running Coventry’s most famous tackle shop, WH Lane’s, after over 30 years behind the counter.

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Time England Made The Arthur Call

Time England Made The Arthur Call

22 Sep 2009

If there’s a more consistent match angler in the UK than Coventry’s Jon Arthur right now, I don’t know who it is.

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Cox Bags The 2009 Shakespeare Championship

Cox Bags The 2009 Shakespeare Championship

08 Sep 2009

The Warwickshire Avon was the lowest and clearest it had been all season for the prestigious highlight of the Evesham Festival

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New Angling Show For National Exhibition Centre

New Angling Show For National Exhibition Centre

25 Aug 2009

A little birdie tells me that the annual NEC fishing show is being resurrected under new management.

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Massive Performance By Shakespeare

Massive Performance By Shakespeare

11 Aug 2009

Midlands team Shakespeare Redditch cruised to the Division One National title at the weekend, taking the Blue Riband event in match fishing by no less than 58 points, with eight of their squad of ten finishing in the top eight of their respective sections.

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Roach Back On The Feed At Evesham!

Roach Back On The Feed At Evesham!

28 Jul 2009

A tinge of colour was all that it needed to get the Warwickshire Avon roach feeding again....

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Ton Ups At Toft, Crazy, Crazy Fishing At Boddington

Ton Ups At Toft, Crazy, Crazy Fishing At Boddington

14 Jul 2009

Toft Fishery near Dunchurch is producing the goods with several ton-up bags reported including a 123lb venue record – not bad considering most of the fish are between 8oz and 1lb 8oz.

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Head For Linley For Coombe Bream

Head For Linley For Coombe Bream

07 Jul 2009

Coombe Abbey in Coventry is running into good form – the fish have spawned and good bream catches are coming from the Linley Bank pegs 12-24.

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Carp Decide Big Canal Matches

Carp Decide Big Canal Matches

01 Jul 2009

The Midlands stretches of the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Staffs -Worcester are seeing a lot more anglers than they usually do....

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