ITALY WIN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011 Ostellato Canal. Italy
The home team Italy totally dominated this years World Championsips, scoring a brilliant nine points on day one with three section wins. See Results

Jon Arthur Smashes Fish ‘O’ Mania record
The first name to be added to the eventual sixteen targeting the £30,000 first prize in the Fish ‘O’ Mania XVIII final on Saturday 16th July 2011 is Coventry’s Jon Arthur. The 35-year-old, who edits Daventry based Pole Fishing magazine, bagged an impressive win at Viaduct Fisheries, with 252-11-0 of carp from Spring 5 to break the record for a Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier and beat Mick Bull’s 247lb 2oz record taken at Willinghurst two years ago.
Bright sunshine greeted the 130 competitors for this first Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier of 2011 on Saturday at Viaduct Fisheries.
Jon said: “I’m ecstatic to have qualified for this year's Fish 'O' Mania final after the first qualifier! I've only ever visited Viaduct a couple of times as it is 150 miles away but I think it is a fantastic venue, full of quality fish and I had a really good feeling about the match as I drove down. It was a baking hot day with little wind and lots of carp cruising in the morning. My peg on Spring 5 offered an island to cast to and open water in front of me, so I set up two pellet waggler rods, a feeder rod, a shallow pole rig and a short pole rig.
“With carp cruising around I thought I'd start on the pole shallow at 14 metres hoping to mug a couple of early fish. After half an hour I had already caught two. I assumed I had about 20lb with these two fish but in hindsight it was more like 30lb-plus. 

“I had one more carp before it went quiet so I had a few casts with a meat feeder and came back with my smallest carp of the day and a 2lb skimmer. I then decided to stick to the long pole for the rest of the match as although I wasn't catching fast, the fish were really big and worth waiting for.
“In the end, I found fishing 16 metres out with meat around 16 inches deep was best. Using my sunglasses allowed me to spot dark shapes under the surface so I kept lifting and dropping the rig towards anything swimming towards me. I ended up with 18 carp and one skimmer and guessed I had 130lb to 150lb, so I was a bit shocked when I actually totalled 252lb – the fish were massive! I've never caught so many double-figure fish on the pole in five hours before and it has to rate as one of my best ever matches. Before today, my personal best fish was 16lb 8oz and I think at least three or four smashed that figure – the biggest went 24lb!”
In second place with a weight of 145lb 7oz was Grant Albutt from Halesowen, West Midlands drawn on peg 80.
The second qualifier in this series of Fish ‘O’ Mania XVIII is at Makins Fisheries, Warwickshire on Wednesday 20th April.
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1,065lb of carp caught in a week from Wyreside Lakes Fishery
Anglers at Wyreside Lakes Fishery in Lancashire have enjoyed a record week, with 52 carp caught for an overall weight of 1,065lb – more than five times the venue average for the time of the year. Three thirties, 26 twenties and 23 upper doubles were caught from the fishery’s lakes. Among the haul was the venue’s biggest resident, Paw Print, which was banked by Mark Barton at 38lb 8oz from the 18-acre Wyre Lake. The Lancaster-based electrician has spent six years chasing the impressive specimen, and it was the last carp he was expecting to catch during March. “As far as I’m aware, this is the earliest this fish has ever been caught. It generally only comes out once or twice a year and can be caught from any swim, so it’s hard to track down.”
Mark lured his new pb from a sandy spot under an island overhang at 130yds, over which he offered a single 20mm Nash Bait Scopex Squid bottom bait.  “I had one bleep and the bobbin pulled up, so I lifted into it,” said the 32-year-old. “The fight was uneventful and it wasn’t until the scales registered 38lb 8oz that I realised which fish I’d caught.”
Fishery owner Bob Birkin believes the cold snap earlier in the year could have played a part in giving anglers a bumper week. “All the carp have been up in weight, so they’ve obviously been feeding well during the winter.
“I think having the lake freeze over in January actually helped, as it kept the cold winds from hitting the water and the fish continued to feed under the ice. Hopefully, it’s a sign of even better things to come,” he said.
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Taff barbell 15lb 150z
Gavin Durnell a 27 Years old Police Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police Living in Beckenham, Kent flavoured his 1st ever Barbel fishing the River Taff in Cardiff. using a Running weighted swimfeeder loaded with maggots with a 2 foot long 8lb trace (Guru Drag line) and Size 14 Kamasan Animal barbed hook. Three maggots used as hook bait fished just on the edge of the rapids on the far bank. It took him 15 mins to land.
CRIME ON ANGLING
And The Home Teams finish good too.
1 Drennan Team England  2 Italy  3 Holland  4 Maver Ireland  5 Daiwa Scotland  6 Shimano Team Wales
Cat fish and Bleak where the secret to A fantastic team win for England in this years World Championships. With most teams hoping for the Carp to feed England held on to the team tatics of fishing for Bleak and Channel Catfish to help the team members finish high up in their sections.
See this website for all the information on results. http://www.merida2010wc.com/

Mark Downes and Mark Addy, Drennan Team England International Managers have announced that after ten years of success they are sending the most experienced team to fish this year’s World Nations Championships in Ciudad Real, Spain 26th/27th June. Both Managers feel that to compete at the highest level, this team is the best in the world.

The team are already the proud owners of a vast amount of gold medals and are hoping to add to their personal collections yet again at the World Championship. The Drennan Team England squad for 2010 are: Will Raison, Alan Scotthorne, Steve Gardner, Sean Ashby, Stuart Conroy and Des Shipp. The six internationals are considered to be one of the most respected teams in the world and one of the favourites to compete for the title of World Champions in 2010 hoping to improve on last year’s results in Almere, Netherlands in September where the Drennan Team England Internationals finished in 5th place just 3.5 points behind eventual winners Slovakia. At the same event, Will Raison just missed out on another individual World Championship win to come runner up with 15.332 points. Dick Clegg, OBE, International Events Manager, Angling Trust said “Mark Downes and Mark Addy have become the most successful partnership on the FIPSed world match fishing scene during the past 9 years. Now entering their tenth year as Drennan Team England managers, it is almost impossible for anyone to suggest that their selection is not up to the task. This team of six anglers has had so much success in the past that it is very difficult for anyone to take their place in the squad, and I wish them all the best for this year’s Championship in Spain”.
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£100,000: The biggest prize in angling history 
The biggest prize in UK match fishing history, a £100,000 winner-takes-all showdown, is to be launched next year by tackle giant Maver.
Twenty-four finalists will head to Larford Lakes in August 2011 for the televised grand final of ‘Match This’, the name given to the new competition.Phil Briscoe is guaranteeing that the event will go ahead, despite proposed big-money matches from other firms falling by the wayside in recent times.
Match This will cost £50 per qualifier to enter, with the winner of each 120-peg match progressing to the main event on the Match Lake at the Stourport, Worcestershire complex. The runner-up in each round will also go through to a smaller stand alone £5,000 event.Phil spoke of his plans to bring in grandstands, encompass demos from celebrity anglers and invite some other manufacturers to display their gear. “Levels of prize money in fishing haven’t increased over the years and some competitions have become static in my opinion. This is not a cash pig for Maver and it’s not cheap or easy to organise, but we’re putting up the richest prize in the sport’s history, to bring it up to a par with tennis and golf. It’s going to be life changing for somebody and will set a new benchmark for match fishing in the UK,” he said.
Maver’s Phil Briscoe has personally guaranteed a prize fund of at least £50,000, but is hoping to be able to hand over a cheque for £100,000 if the event sells out. A website for the competition is being set up to purchase tickets through when it opens on June 1, 2010. Tickets will be fully transferable and anglers can apply for as many qualifiers as they want. <> 
The site will even use a countdown feature, so applicants can see how many tickets are left and Phil is to enter talks with television broadcasters to cover the event and produce a DVD of the action.
“I’ve looked at the grumbles associated with existing competitions and tried to address them, for example there’s no special lists or loyalty clubs. Two opposite banks of the rectangular Match Lake will be used for the final, but next to each end peg I’ll put one of my local anglers. They’ll fish a mini four-peg match themselves, to create blockers and remove any end peg advantage of the finalists. The competition will be extensively marketed through the press, Maver distributors and the fisheries involved. Support it fully, and we will be handing a giant £100,000 cheque to the winner!” said Phil. <> 
Fifteen of the UK’s best fisheries have confirmed qualifiers for Match This, with some venues hosting two. Anglers are urged to get in quickly to secure their place as entries will be done on a first come, first served basis
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Subject: Fish to Win Pairs - Round Three - Tylers Common Ash & Willow Lakes - Wednesday 14th April 2010 - Mat

After a successful practice session on a warm Saturday 10th April where weights were in 200's and high 100's everyone was really looking forward to round 3 of the Fish to Win pairs match at Tylers Common in Brentwood Essex where everyone fancied Willow Lake to pick up the bigger weights, however with a very cold North Easterly wind blowing made things difficult and the fish had moved out away from the margins into deeper water at 14 metres, whereas on Ash Lake the fish were in the mood to have a good munch. Today was also the Semi Final of the Individual Knockout element of the comp which saw Alec Roberts (Middy) Pete Upperton (Middy) and Tony Lock (Garbolino Apollo) progress to the knock out final.

Ash Lake Section A
Geoff Vallance (Preston Innovations Delcac) on his first visit to the Essex venue took the honours with 198lb 14ozs on peg 9, second place in peg 3 was Robbie Taylor (Preston Innovations Delcac) with 146lb 2ozs fishing in close and down the edge, in 3rd place was Mark Parrett again on his first visit to the venue weighed in with 141lb from peg 10 and these were the top three weights overall over the 2 lakes.

Willow Lake Section B
Pete Upperton (Middy) scooped maximum points from peg 24 on Willow with 141lb 8oz and began the match fishing close or up in the water at 14 metres and only have 7 fish in the first couple of hours, so a change of tactics and fishing on the deck at 14 metres found the fish and caught on pretty much every put in for the remainder of the match.
In second place local knowledge came into play as Graham Dack (Middy) from unfavoured peg 17 weighed in with 135lb 4oz who jokingly mentioned that he fished pretty much every line possible from waggler to pole at long and short and even down the edge to find the carp and to avoid the Rudd.
In close 3rd place was Zac Brown (Preston Innovations - Delcac) weighed in with 135lb from peg 4.
Round 4 of the pairs moves to Fairlight Fisheries near East Grinstead on Saturday 24th April 2010 with promises to be interesting as a majority of the field have never seen or been to the venue before.
Fish to Win South East starts on Wednesday 7th July 2010 at Marsh Farm in Surrey
Fish to Win National starts on Wednesday 14th July 2010 at Partridge Lakes in Cheshire
Full details and ticket availability can be found on the website http://www.facebook.com/l/74e88;www.fish-to-win.co.uk
Warmest Regards
John Bell
Tel : 020 8599 2285
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NEW WORLD CHAMPION

The Meadow Lake at Riverside Fishery is providing good sport with carp with good catches on floating baits in the evening. Martin Perry caught fish to 13.25lb this way and Phil Green landed carp to 9lb.
Sean Jones, from Llanbradach, fished Riverside Lake with luncheon meat as bait to catch carp to 12.5lb and when Abertridwr angler John Pritchard fished the lake his catch included good carp and bream.  Martin Richards had a good session at Fendrod Lake during which he banked seven carp, including ghost carp of 18lb and 19lb.
Jason Salter landed six carp to 19lb when he baited with boilies; Steve Gorvett had five to 17lb; Damien Williams caught a common carp of 18.75lb and when Carl Tonner targeted roach with waggler and maggots he hooked a specimen 10lb bream