Exciting plans at Herefordshire water. Herefordshire angling complex and holiday retreat, Docklow Pools has announced some exciting events and offers, starting in just a couple of weeks time, and running in to the New Year. First up is their New Year get away – which offers extraordinary value for money. Guests are invited to stay in the venue's luxury accommodation for up to seven nights from December 28th, for a cost of just £100 for each unit of accommodation.
Fenland ace is Winter Festival king!Bait-Tech-backed rod, Lee Klimczuk has won the 2013 Garbolino Winter Festival at White Acres Fishery in Cornwall. The event, which was this year contested by 71 of the country's best silverfish anglers, is unique because normal carp don't count – meaning that weights are dominated by skimmers, roach, brown goldfish and F1s. As expected, the fishing proved exceptional, with numerous 50lb-plus individual weights being recorded throughout the five-day festival. Lee, who has long been regarded as a top allround anglers since his days with the mighty Essex County squad, won the event with a perfect score of four section wins, dropping a third.
New angling-related gift shop now live. A new online angling gift shop has been launched by the
publishers of Match Fishing magazine, David Hall Publishing. The store, which can be found at www. shopatdhp.
England Feeder Team Manager, Tom Pickering reflects on the World Championship. The Preston Innovations England Feeder team arrived back in England yesterday, after competing in the World Championship in South Africa last weekend. Despite securing a team bronze medal behind winners, South Africa, and runners-up Hungary, England team manager, Tom Pickering admitted that he was "gutted" that the team hadn't returned with gold. He explained: "I have no problems holding my hands up and saying we got it wrong.
This neat and compact system allows longer than average hooklengths to be stored with ease.
The box contains eight of the spools, with each capable of holding up to 10 hooklengths. The line clip is also a clever idea and allows the hooklengths to be always stored under tension. RRP: £14.
Browning poles really are fantastic and this latest mid-range offering truly is superb.
Handling at the full 14. 5 metres is brilliant and its rigidity is likened to a pole of a much higher value. Browning’s reputation with poles is constantly growing and with models such as this it is easy to see why.
Yet another superb pole from the guys at Tri-Cast. The Iconic uses the same technology as the fearsome Trilogy Pro 2 that we rated so highly.
Packed with features and supplied with a great spares package, the Iconic Pro is a super-stiff pole with bags of strength. Well worth checking out!RRP: £1,549.
Get In A Frenzee! Joe Carass gets to grips with the Frenzee FMR 3000 reel. Reels don’t seem to have changed much in the last few years. For sure they have got better and also much cheaper, but fundamentally they all revolve around the same principles. I suppose the biggest shift was when modern commercial anglers started using front-drag reels instead of the previously popular rear-drag offerings.
