Match & Coarse

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Ben Sharp

My passion has always been huge for match fishing and I started at a young age fishing local club matches. Then at the age of […]

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PB match weight for Dockerty at Summer Festival

Alex Dockerty reports on a hectic week with lots of fish caught and lots of laughs on the bank at the Lindholme Lakes Omar Lodges […]

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Bombay Barbel

Barbel are being stocked into more and more stillwaters these days. Not only are they doing well, on many waters they are well over double-figures. […]

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Time out of the Office

A few years ago I was shown a stretch of river I’d never visited before… the pinnacle of fishing for me…a stretch of river that […]

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Andrew Smith with a PB barbel on Halibut pellets

Andrew Smith with a PB 10lb 60z barbel from the River Swale on Halibut pellets over loosefeed of Robin Red Pellets, meat and hempseed

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Toot Hill's Annual Rod Race

This year’s Toot Hill Great Rod race, part of the Bingham-based school’s activities week, was sadly a rather bitter sweet affair for the 20 pupils […]

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Spring 2017 - Tony Gibson's Angling Blog

My last blog entry ended up with a description of the lead in to my first 2-night session on my main bream/tench water for the […]

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244lb match win in 3 hours for Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor fished the Woodlands View evening match last night and with it being only a 3 hour match he decided on a short pole […]

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Nathan Mallatratt with an 11lb 6oz barbel on tidal Trent on the Source

Nathan Mallatratt with an 11lb 6oz barbel on tidal Trent using the Source freezer bait and Crave glug

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Junior Fish 'O' Mania Champion - Will McCranor

I recently qualified for Junior Fish ‘O’ Mania and was really looking forward to it as it’s a really fun day out and there’s also […]

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Paul Elt

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Fish'O'mania champion - Kayleigh Smith

I knew that to be in with a real chance of winning the match I would need to catch shallow. I arranged a practice session […]

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Fish small to catch big - Leanne Knott

If you want to catch a few Trent barbel you almost need to target the bream. And no, I haven’t taken leave of my senses! […]

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Rob Wootton on his "go to" margin attack

Now that summer is well and truly here, I like to start thinking about how I’m going to attack the margins of my local commercial […]

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Dobbing for cruising fish - Alex Dockerty

Dobbing is one of those tactics anglers either love or hate! Regardless of which camp you’re in, there is certainly a time and a place […]

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Women in Sport Week Competition - Your Photos

The 19-25th of June was Women In Sport week and what better time to introduce a female to the world of fishing. With this in mind […]

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Matthew Fernandez - spring & early summer tench blog

A double figure tench has been hot on my radar for a long time. So this spring I wanted to put 110% effort into my […]

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"Polly's Method of The Month" - Pellet Waggler

Now the water temperature has reached its peak and the fish have spawned, if you love fishing the pellet waggler, then get out there. My […]

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Evenings down the edge

It’s now the time of year that we’re seeing the longest daylight hours and the other side of it is as the night’s start drawing […]

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Nick Speed's expander pellet secrets

Nick Speed demonstrates how to prepare expander pellets and gives away his secret twists…

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A match with Nick Speed

We follow match ace Nick Speed from start to finish as he competes in a mid-week open match at Lindholme Lakes. Getting a first-hand look […]

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Mark Pollard's margin fishing tips

In this video Mark Pollard takes you through a margin fishing session on a typical commercial water, demonstrating the baits and tactics he uses to […]

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Stewart Bracey - Worm Curry!

At this time of year, just after the carp have spawned, worms become ‘the’ bait. If you put me on the spot, I couldn’t say […]

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Dynamite Lindholme Festival Results 2017

Warm weather, big weights and a lake record all added to another enthralling Lindholme Festival as 50 anglers competed for the honours in the five […]

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England International Rob Wootton reveals two of his favourite feeder-fishing edges

With so many big matches based around feeder fishing, it has been this type of angling that I’ve been focusing on this month. With so […]

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Grant Albutt

Name: Grant Albutt Also known as: Silevrback Age: 45 Town: Halesowen Favourite venues: Barston, Whiteacres, Larford, Bolingy and many more Occupation: Angling Coach Married/single: Married […]

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"Polly's method of the month" - Catching shallow

Well, both the weather and water temperatures are ‘on the up’ and that means that on many venues fish can be caught shallow. In this […]

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Rob Perkins shows how he adapts the new Skimmer Mix for a variety of venues

In this video Rob Perkins demonstrates how he adapts the new Skimmer Mix groundbait for a variety of venues as well as showing how to […]

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Lessons learnt in my week at White Acres' Milo festival - Grant Albutt

Day one of the festival and I drew Bolingey peg four. Not the best draw, but I thought could pick up some good match points […]

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Nick Speed's spring/summer pellet boost

In this short video Nick Speed’s show’s us a simple 30 second spring/summer tip for pepping-up your hard pellets…

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Alex Dockerty's Sloppy Groundbait Mix

Alex Dockerty talks through the three different sloppy groundbait mixes he uses when shallow fishing for F1s, before demonstrating how to mix them correctly…

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Dennis Smith with one of several lovely fish caught on the pole

Dennis Smith with one of several lovely fish all caught on the pole on 6mm Swim Stim Green Soft Hook Pellets over 3mm Swim Stim […]

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Stewart Bracey

  Name: Stewart Bracey Home town: Bury St Edmunds Occupation: Painter Team: None Biggest match weight: 318lb at Decoy Lakes Favourite bait: Corn Favourite Method: […]

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Chasing the win! Alex Dockerty at the Commercial National

The Commercial National is the biggest team commercial fishery match of the year and one that I always look forward to as the buzz from […]

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Quick breakdown Method Feeder Mix - Rob Wootton Top Tip

In this short video Rob Wootton explains his top tip on creating a quick breakdown Method Feeder mix…

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CompleX-T on the river

With the terrific results that I’d been getting with the barbel while using the CompleX-T it was a big disappointment to find myself incapacitated following […]

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Spring Crucian

This winter has been one of the coldest for a while so I was desperate for that spring warmth! Although this winter was a productive […]

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"Polly's method of the month" - how to feed a margin line

With the weather now on the up, it is easy to get carried away. Many anglers over feed and also bait with the wrong thing […]

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Nick Speed - White Acres Frenzee Champion 2017

Dynamite’s Nick Speed experienced some fantastic sport last week to take the title of White Acres Frenzee Champion 2017. Competing against a field of 159 […]

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Mark Parker had this fine 6lb 4oz tinca

Mark Parker had this fine tench on fake casters in a solid PVA bag of 3mm Swim Stim Red Krill pellets & Groundbait

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Duncan Lennox with a 10lb 14oz River Trent barbel

Duncan Lennox with a 10lb 14oz River Trent barbel on Spicy Shrimp & Prawn 15mm

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Stephen Tregidgo River Trent chub on Spicy Shrimp & Prawn

Stephen Tregidgo 5lb 4oz River Trent chub caught on Shrimp & Prawn 15mm

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Chris Allen on Spicy Shrimp & Prawn

Chris Allen with a 9lb 12oz River Trent barbel on 15mm Spicy Shrimp & Prawn

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Chris Barley

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Sean Cameron

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Alex Dockerty

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Michael Hall

  Michael Hall, AKA Ginger, has been on the match circuit for years and has plenty of experience competing at the top level. He’s always […]

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Chris Barley How to Prepare Expander Pellets

  In this short video Chris Barley demonstrates how to prepare and fish with the perfect expander pellets…  

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Lessons learnt this winter - Alex Dockerty

I’ve had a brilliant run this winter at Lindholme Lakes and I’ve been fortunate enough to win the league overall, with over 50 in the […]

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David Spence with an 11lb 7oz barbel

David Spence with an 11lb 7oz barbel caught from a flooded river Trent. Dave fished 2 x 15mm Spicy Shrimp & Prawn boilies on the hair

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David Spence 10lb 14oz barbel

David Spence with a 10lb 14oz barbel from the River Trent on Meaty Marine Pellet boilie

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Tony Gibson 14lb 3oz bream

Tony Gibson 14lb 3oz bream on a large snail from a tin of Dynamite Specimen Hemp & Snails

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Tony Gibson with a 6lb 2oz river Nene chub

Tony Gibson with a 6lb 2oz river Nene chub which fell to two 12mm CompleX-T boilies on the hair

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Tony Gibson with a cracking 9lb 3oz male tench

Tony Gibson with a cracking 9lb 3oz male tench caught using Meaty Fish Bites & Meaty Marine groundbait

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Tony Gibson with an 11lb 11oz River Nene barbel

Tony Gibson with an 11lb 11oz River Nene barbel on CompleX-T

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Chris Bartle with his new PB barbel

Chris Bartle with his new PB barbel at 11lb 8oz caught on 8mm Pre-drilled Halibut from a small Trent tributary

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Targeting Silvers at St. John's Linear

Ryan Gibson spent three days pleasure fishing with his Regimental Angling Club on St. John’s Lake at Linear Fisheries, possibly the UK’s most prolific big […]

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Dockerty‎ wins 2016 Garbolino Lindholme Winter League

Alex Dockerty was “absolutely buzzing” having all but won the 2016 Garbolino Lindholme Winter League this weekend! Having drawn peg 30 on the Beeches Alex […]

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Matt Fernandez

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Rob Wootton

Rob Wootton is a relatively young angler that just keeps getting better and better. He earnt a reputation for being excellent on commercials but has […]

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Mick Robinson

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Kayleigh Smith

I first started fishing at the age of 10 and joined the Leeds juniors at the age of 11. I continued in this set up […]

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Rob Perkins

Most of Robs fishing revolves around team fishing, most recently with Trentmen as he enjoys the diversity it brings covering all manner of venues and […]

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Andy Geldart wins Decoy Winter League Final

Dynamites Andy Geldart won the Decoy Winter League Final last weekend and it was a Dynamite one-two which Chris Barley finishing second. As Andy explained […]

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Sam Collett

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Dave Swain

  Dave Swain describes himself as a young at heart family man who’s a bit on the large side. He likes a laugh and to […]

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Roly McEneaney

Roly McEneaney has an enviable reputation on the midlands commercials and is one of the top method feeder anglers in the country. The former Drennan […]

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Nick Speed

Nick Speed is one of the most helpful anglers on the bank and has years of experience behind him. After learning his trade on natural […]

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Impressive result for Will in under 25's Wye Festival

Last weekend Will Mc Carnnor went to the river Wye at Hereford for the first ever under 25’s Wye Festival sponsored by Diawa. It was […]

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Dyson takes top spot in Heronbrook Winter League

Fishing for Maver Gold Dynamite’s Andy Dyson took top spot in this fourth round of the Heronbrook Individual Winter League at Heronbrook Fisheries, Ecccleshall last […]

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Mark Pollard

Mark Pollard is one of the top anglers in the UK and although he made his name fishing the canals, he is more than competent […]

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How to prepare flavoured expanders - Rob Wootton

As well as taking on water, Expander Pellets can also take on flavourings, which will give them an edge if you know of a certain […]

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Feeding Liquid - Nick Speed

This is the time of the year when applying a bit of strategic thought into a way of plucking out the better stamp fish from […]

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Super Fishmeal Hookbait Tips

  Super fishmeal nuggets were initially designed as a technical soft hook bait for pole fishing and typical rod and line approach on commercial fisheries.  They’re […]

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River Pole Fishing Tips - Mark Pollard

This week I would like to talk about how I approach a river on the pole. The river I am going to talk about has […]

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Pellet Waggler Fishing Tips - Rob Wootton

Now the water in our commercials has properly warmed up there’s no more enjoyable method than the pellet waggler for putting a net full of […]

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Using expanders pellets & how to hook them! - Rob Wootton

Pellet fishing has taken over in the match fishing world and more and more anglers have now come to terms with just how effective they […]