All About Fishing

27 th November 2017

Angling Direct & Fishing 4 Schools Open Day - Lenwade Pike Club

For those who may not be aware Fishing 4 Schools is an organisation setup by Charles Jardine in association with The Countryside Alliance. The scheme aims to not only increase the awareness of our sport for young people, but also bring fishing into

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Posted in: News, All About Fishing, Fishing Industry & Events, Company News Tagged: Learn To Fish, Fishing For Schools, FFS
21 st November 2017

Angling Direct Meets - Alan Blair

It’s not every day you get to fish with ‘Mr Urban Banx’ Alan Blair but thanks to a few phone calls and emails our diaries managed to align and give us 24 hours on the bank together (big thank you to Alan).We decided to head to Clearwater

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Posted in: Catch Reports, News, All About Fishing Tagged: Carp, Carp Fishing, Alan Blair, Angling Direct Meets
17 th November 2017

Friday Funny - The Blow Out

I think we can all empathise with the feeling of opening a new piece of tackle and then being desperate to go out and use it. Around the age of 14, I remember being brought my own brolly. This was around the time I started doing the odd night (

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11 th November 2017

AD Sheffield Grand Opening - 2nd December

Saturday - 2nd December - is the grand opening of the Angling Direct Sheffield Superstore!To mark the occasion, we will be joined by a whole host of angling superstars, including Nigel Sharp, Terry Dempsey, Jerry Bridger, Bob Roberts, Nick Speed and

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Posted in: News, All About Fishing, Fishing Industry & Events, Company News Tagged: Open Day, Angling Direct, Angling Direct Sheffield, Sheffield
10 th November 2017

Funny Friday - Fly Guys

This tale is not my proudest moment, but it certainly brings home the truth in the statement “you’ve got to start somewhere”. Now after being a die-hard coarse and match angler I decided to venture into the world of fly fishing at the tender

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08 th November 2017

Meet our 2017 King of the Catch Winners

Our annual King of the Catch competition came to a close in September – and what a year it was! Not only were there more entries than ever before but it also had some of the closest fought voting we had ever seen. We announced our five winners at

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Posted in: Competitions, News, All About Fishing, Fishing Industry & Events, Company News Tagged: Competition, King Of The Catch, Pictures, Winners, KOTC
08 th November 2017

Shimano Bootcamp 2017

Founded in 1921 by Shozaburo Shimano, Shimano Inc. is a name that has long been associated with the cycling world, responsible for a whopping 50% of the global bicycle component market. Since the early 1970s, when the company took its first steps

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Posted in: News, All About Fishing, Company News Tagged: Angling Direct Staff, Shimano, Shimano Bootcamp
08 th November 2017

Meet our 2017 King of the Catch Runners-Up

Our 2017 King of the Catch was the hardest fought edition of the competition to date – with more entries than ever before. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner in each category but that didn’t stop our second place anglers from giving

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Posted in: Competitions, News, All About Fishing, Fishing Industry & Events, Company News Tagged: Competition, King Of The Catch, Pictures, Winners, KOTC
03 rd November 2017

Friday Funny - Coarse Karma

As a young (almost teenage) lad heading out for one of my first solo sessions at my local commercial fishery, I was full of excitement but also a little nervous of fishing alone.I reached the lake bright and early on a Saturday morning, after cadging

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01 st November 2017

KING OF THE CATCH 2017 - WINNERS!

The waiting is finally over and the results are in. All the votes have been counted and verified, and we’re now able to announce the five winners and five runners up of King of the Catch 2017!Before we do, we’d like to thank everyone who entered

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Posted in: Competitions, News, All About Fishing, Fishing Industry & Events, Company News Tagged: Competition, King Of The Catch, Pictures, Winners, KOTC