Well we’re nearing the middle of November and although still relatively mild its hardly what you would call floater fishing weather. But Darryl Dunn has continued to buck the trend after the fish he had off the top in the last couple of weeks. Yesterday he put a spare couple of hours to good use on a local estate lake and managed to hook four, landing two of them, the […]

Wesley Mast from Schelle in Belgium sent us this touching story about a majestic old Leather and a day that will stay in his memory for ever…

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Southampton based philanthropist David Meek had been having a run of bad luck recently, but it was all forgotten after slipping the net under one of the Kingdom of Ringwoodshire’s most prized subjects at the weekend. Here David tells a lovely, inspriring tale of how it all came right:

Darryl Dunn sent us a rather unusual report today, not the sort of thing you would usually expect in November but with the unseasonably mild weather we’ve been having, Darryl has been doing a bit of floater fishing. Excellent angling! Here’s Darryl’s story:

Terry Hearn has had a little break recently from his pursuit of the Ashmead biggun and along with catching some nice barbel from a Thames tributary he caught this cracking 25lb 4oz common from ‘old father’ earlier this week before the draw off will leave his boat high and dry for a month. The Ashmead quest continues now and Tel said he is looking forward to getting back under the […]

Gaz Fareham has been in touch with news of a monstrous old Belgian common which he caught on a return to the Benelux last week. This fish is known to be ancient and highly sought after and was caught from one of the pits Gaz has been writing about in his excellent ‘This is Nowhere’ series in Carpology. The bite came in the middle of a mild, damp night on […]

Dan Kilgour sent us this evocative photo of a beautiful mirror caught last week after returning to the big pit he has been fishing this year. A good bit of early morning observation helped track them down and culminated in a lovely autumnal mirror. Here’s Dan’s story: