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Nail-biter!
Browning’s Bob Nudd reports from a dramatic Mahon’s Festival in Northern Ireland. Read more
King of the Erne
Our man on the bank, none other that four-time world champion Bob Nudd, reports from one of Northern Ireland’s most... Read more
Bobby Smithers Memorial
Bob Nudd reports from the Bobby Smithers memorial in Northern Ireland. Read more
Waterways Classic
Four-time world champion Bob Nudd is our man on the bank in Ireland as he reports from the annual Waterways... Read more
Peatling Pools Fish ‘O’ M…
Middy backed Russ Evans continues his quest for a place in the Fish O Final with a visit to Leicestershire... Read more
Slippery customers
Last week’s trip to the north west saw plenty of action for Nash Peg One’s Paul Garner, with eels and... Read more
The ups and downs of a ma…
Middy-backed Russ Evans reports on a busy, wet and costly week on the bank side. Read more
It never rains, but it po…
Nash Peg One’s Paul Garner reflects on the recent weather. It’s good and bad news for anglers… Read more
The lead ban – 25-years o…
Total Coarse Fishing’s Steve Martin gives his personal views on the lead ban imposed on anglers. Has it has made... Read more
Tench: Stage One
TCF Online News Editor Steve Phillips takes the first few steps on a new tench water. Read more
Bury Hill Spring Silvers …
Middy sponsored Russ Evans has been busy running and fishing the annual spring silvers event at Bury Hill Fishery near... Read more
Drowned down in Devon!
Total Coarse Fishing deputy editor Steve Martin was anticipating a week of bagging and banter on his club’s annual outing.... Read more
A Record Perch Search
Total Coarse Fishing news Editor Steve Phillips goes in search of a striped needle in a watery haystack. Read more
Variety is the spice…
Total Coarse Fishing editor Kevin Wilmot was left ruing a slow start after a match with JV Angling Club… Read more
Here to help
Now that spring has arrived, Middy sponsored all-rounder Russ Evans spends time on the bank side helping other anglers catch... Read more
Tench Adventures
Southern all-rounder and Middy sponsored angler Russ Evans takes a look down memory lane to where his fishing career... Read more
You can't beat it!
TCF News Editor Steve breaks the float gear out of mothballs for a day on the silvers. Read more
From the top
Just back from The Canaries, Peg One’s Paul Garner is shocked to find it almost as warm here! Read more
New sponsor excitement!
Fresh from a Silvers Festival at Stafford Moor in Devon, Southern all-rounder Russ Evans reveals his new tackle sponsor on... Read more
Stafford Moor Silvers Par…
As I mentioned in last week's blog I had a disastrous start to the silvers festival on day one but... Read more
It's Show Time!
Fishing’s taken a bit of a back seat for Nash and Peg One’s Paul Garner as tackle shows take centre... Read more
At The Double
Young carp anglers Dan Fothergill and Dave Hunt from Wokingham in Berkshire enjoyed a great day on a venue near... Read more
Chasing the tail
An epic battle, and a day in great company are this week’s highlights for Peg One’s Paul Garner. Read more
Stafford Moor Silvers Fes…
Our match blogger Russ Evans has just returned from Devon where he fished the Stafford Moor Silvers Festival. In the... Read more
Total rubbish!
Des Taylor’s getting fed up with anglers moaning – again – about the River Severn. Read more
It's A Cruel World
Follows, fish and that sinking feeling as the Wye throws up some surprises for our Online News Editor. Read more
The other side of the len…
After a few weeks of really intensive fishing, last week it was time for Paul Garner to catch up with... Read more
Turning to jelly
Des Taylor and his mate had a hunch that conditions on the River Severn was right for a big zander.... Read more
Roll on next week, it’s s…
It's looking like we are finally coming out of another Winter! Mind you, it didn’t seem like that for Russ... Read more
Of rivers and reservoirs
Peg One’s Paul Garner is ready to hang up his boat-fishing pike gear until autumn. Roll on summer! Read more
A perfect finish
Conditions on Des Taylor’s beloved River Severn are perfect, and he’s confident a big barbel before the end of the... Read more
Whopper Shocker
Online News Editor Steve Phillips gets more than he bargained for during a short lure session. Read more
Decisions decisions
A last-hour decision paid dividends for Total Coarse Fishing editor Kevin Wilmot in his latest club match at Decoy... Read more
Zero to hero!
Subtle changes unlock a dour weekend on the reservoirs for Peg One’s Paul Garner and boat partner Gordy Howes. Read more
Great to wet a line again…
Like many of us, southern all-rounder Russ Evans, couldn’t wait to get out on to the banks after the thaw.... Read more
See you on the river!
Rising temperatures had Des Taylor rushing to the bank last week… with some success! Read more
Perfect timing
Some people are born lucky! First, Bob Nudd timed his holiday to coincide with the worst snowfalls of he winter,... Read more
End of an era
Total Coarse Fishing’s deputy editor Steve Martin recalls the final Embassy Challenge in Spain – an event he was lucky... Read more
All go for Fish O!
Southern all-rounder Russ Evans kick starts his exclusive blogs for tcfmagazine.com with a look ahead to a busy year. Read more
Life with Robin
Total Coarse Fishing editor Kevin Wilmot recalls his angling apprenticeship with Robin Harris, who died last week. Read more
Hero to zero
A lost opportunity for Peg One’s Paul Garner this week, as he rues the one that got away… Read more
Oxtail soup
Des Taylor might have struggled to get out on to the banks this week, but his mates have been catching... Read more
A tale of two rivers
Peg One’s Paul Garner visits two rivers for a taste of freezing fishing before a cold laid him low… Read more
It’s official…
Des Taylor's gone out of his mind. Who else would go fishing with blizzards forecast? Read more
Getting it right and wron…
One good and one not-so-good result in his last two outings for Total Coarse Fishing editor Kevin Wilmot… Read more
Costs, conditions and con…
Peg One’s Paul Garner is planning his 2012 campaign but certain things are getting in the way, not least the... Read more
The respect we deserve
Des Taylor’s firmly on his soap box this week after watching Countryfile on the BBC. Read more
Rampant Raveley!
Bob Nudd was kept busy during the first of a winter league series last weekend. In fact he’s gone on... Read more
Tidal Teeth
Online News Editor Steve Phillips targets the Trent, finding conditions on the tidal waterway spot on for zander. Read more
Learning while blanking
Our specialist blogger Paul Garner reflects on a week when he spent more time behind the lens than in front... Read more
Balmy weather
This week Des Taylor reflects on another bout of unseasonably warm temperatures and the positive effects this is having on... Read more
No-ice surprise
I nearly didn’t fish the latest match with my club JVAC last Sunday as I thought the lake would be... Read more
Plans Are Made to be Brok…
It has certainly been a week of two halves, with the incredibly warm conditions suddenly giving way to hard frosts... Read more
A flock of seagulls
Take a look at this photo which I took the other day on the River Severn in the town of... Read more
Loving it!
Total Coarse Fishing’s photographic manager Pat MacInnes is the latest blogger to join our brilliant website team. Read more
An incredible match!
The first round of the annual Bourne Winter League was switched at the last minute from the River Glen to... Read more
Weather check!
Believe it or not, 2011 was the second warmest year ever recorded in the British Isles, and this Winter is... Read more
Feeling Pasty
Online News Editor Steve Phillips goes small river chubbing and soon has the fish saying cheese (paste) for the camera. Read more
Don’t do it!
I knew it would happen! We had a dry spring, a dry summer, a dry autumn followed by a dry... Read more
Duelling Banjos!
Hopes were high for my club’s annual Christmas match at Decoy Lakes in Cambridgeshire. Organiser Carl had done his usual... Read more
Softly Softly...
... catchy pikey, and they've definitely got a taste for soft plastic on my local estate lake. Read more
Match with a difference
I fished a very different type of match the other day. It was on a lake known for its carp…... Read more
Learning Curve
A big water with big predators, Grafham is a jewel in the crown of UK zander fishing - but it's... Read more
Teeth On The Tip
Having grown up fishing the canals around the midlands I rate them as my favourite type of venue. Overlooked and... Read more
Banks blow-out!
My match fishing has been limited this year, and it shows, as my results in my local Daventry AC club... Read more
Hits and misses
Our new Online News Editor hits the mass of water that is Rutland Water in search of teeth and takes. Read more
Always learning
Smallest of the dozen or so lakes at Decoy where I do most of my club fishing is Four Islands.... Read more
Second surprise
One of the things I like most about Decoy Lakes near Peterborough is its variety. Variety not just in the... Read more
Remembering a good man
The Terry Freeman Memorial is one of my favourite matches of the year. In memory of the man who did... Read more
Evesham beckons
Since working for David Hall Publishing I have become increasingly involved in one of the biggest weekends in angling, and... Read more
Angling Trust Masters
I look forward to the annual Angling Trust Masters almost more than any other match. For one, I love the... Read more
Back with a bang!
After several weekends with no match action for various reasons, I was looking forward to yesterday’s outing with my club... Read more
Cudmore Capers
It might have rained for most of the weekend but thankfully that didn’t seem to bother the several thousand anglers... Read more
Net Rule Nightmare
I pride myself on being fairly good when it comes to guessing the weight of fish I have caught in... Read more
Caster Capers
My fishing time has been somewhat limited recently for various reasons but I did manage a 15-peg match last week... Read more
Day Two Blues
I’ve just fished my third totalfishing-club.com two-day festival at Roy Marlow’s fantastic Glebe complex and there’s a pattern emerging that... Read more
Here kitty kitty!
Those of you who read my last blog will have been aware that I was spending a few sessions trying... Read more
Not so Supercup
The Angling Times Supercup is a great event because it gives club anglers like me the chance to fish team... Read more
Hot And Cold
I have to say that it’s been a pretty mixed week, and it all happened just as temperatures soared into... Read more
Wind And The willows!
Finally, after a pretty awful winter, the new series of Daventry AC matches got underway on Sunday at Toft Lakes,... Read more
What's The Snag?
A last-minute pass out saw me heading off to Cedar Pool at Decoy Lakes for the latest match with my... Read more
Toft Lake Open
The winter’s finally over and as the water starts to warm the fish in my local match pools are starting... Read more
Beastie beckons
Beastie Lake at Decoy in Cambridgeshire is normally reserved for open events which means I hardly ever get to fish... Read more
No-show skimmers
Last week I said I’d report backon my club JVAC’s Supercup match against Townsend Lakes at their home venue of,... Read more
Up Against It
Last week I said I’d let you know how my practise session went for the first round of the Supercup... Read more
Willows Lake
Willows lake at Decoy Fishery near Peterborough has always been one of my favourites. Read more
Success At Decoy
Decoy Lakes near Peterborough is where I do a lot of my club fishing and my latest match there was... Read more
Life Of Riley
Welcome to my first blog entry for tcfmagazine.com . My fishing buddies think I’ve got the life of Riley as... Read more
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