The first picture shows a very happy Lynne with a Tench caught at a local club water using simple waggler set-up, size 16s hook and two red maggots. The second picture shows Lynne again, this time with a 12lb. Mirror Carp caught while on holiday using a dog biscuit on the surface.

The picture on the left shows Elspeth and Cameron aged 7, and Jarvis aged just 5!   These youngsters were very happy with the results of a coaching session that produced a mixed bag of Gudgeon, Roach and Perch caught at the Browning Cudmore complex in North Staffordshire.

These two pictures can be treasured by Scott and Jake for the rest of their lives. They may be tiddlers, but the first fish you catch is always pretty special, in this case both small perch. Scott looks very pleased, but poor old Jake had trouble hanging on to his, this perch wanted to get away!

These pictures show two very happy young fishermen, Jake with his first barbell and Scott with one of Britains finest fighting fish, the tench.

Victoria with an 8lb mirror carp, and the other picture is of the Master at work (thats me in case you did not know), with a 17lb mirror carp - a personal best for me. As you can see from the picture I am a tad pleased with myself! Both fish were caught while on holiday at Red House Farm near Lincoln - see the Links Page.

The picture above left shows Mr. Trevor Pervin at the Browning Cudmore complex. Trevor has had a break from fishing of no less than 40 years!! So what a fantastic day for him when he caught his first barbel, in fact the first such fish he has ever seen.

Above right we have James Ellams with a 3lb bream caught while on holiday at Red House farm in Lincolnshire, using sweetcorn as bait. Earlier that day James caught a 10lb mirror carp using bread as bait.

Jon and Mathew Hunt both caught different Mirror Carp, but at the same weight 6lb 12oz. Both fish were caught using waggler tactics with luncheon meat as bait. Jon and mathew are aged 15 and 12 respectively.

These fish were caught during a coaching session on one of our pools, Stone Private Angling Club's Hooksgreen pool.

The photos above show Rob Hartley catching a perch and also a common carp about 2 lb in weight. These fish were caught on his first coaching sesion on one of Stone Private Angling Clubs waters. Rob used a 4 metre pole with a size sixteens hook and two maggots.

Mr Bill Hopkins of Macclesfield catching 2 Rudd, the smaller fish being Bill's first after a gap of 40 years! The larger of the 2 fish was caught just after the first, both being within the first hour of the session. The fishing tackle used by Bill to catch both fish was a waggler float set up using a 12 ft float rod and a size 16's hook with 2 maggots. This tuition session was on one of Stone Private angling clubs waters.

Mick Ellams is based in Stoke on Trent in North Staffordshire and has extensive experience fishing lakes and rivers throughout Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire.

Staffordshire towns covered

Abbots Alton Barton-under-Needwood Biddulph Brewood Bromley Burntwood Burton-upon-Trent Cannock Cheadle Cheslyn Hay Codsall Eccleshall Gnosall Hednesford Leek Lichfield Madeley Newcastle-under-Lyme Penkridge Rugeley Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Stone Tamworth Tutbury Uttoxeter Staffordshire.

Cheshire towns covered

Alderley Edge Alsager Altrincham Birkenhead Bollington Bramhall Cheadle Chester Crewe Congleton Ellesmere Port Frodsham Helsby Holmes Chapel Hyde Kelsall Knutsford Macclesfield Malpas Middlewich Nantwich Neston Northwich Poynton Prestbury Runcorn Sandbach Stockport Tarporley Warrington Widnes Willaston Wilmslow Winsford.

Derbyshireshire towns covered

Alfreton Ashbourne Bakewell Baslow Belper Bolsover Buxton Chapel-en-le-Frith Chesterfield Clay Cross Clowne Creswell Cromford Derby Dronfield Duffield Eckington Glossop Heanor Kilburn Matlock Melbourne New Mills Pinxton Repton Ripley Somercotes Staveley Swadlincote Tideswell Whaley Bridge Willington Wirksworth Youlgreave

Shropshire towns covered

Albrighton Baschurch Bayston Hill Church Stretton Dawley Donnington Ellesmere Hadley Ironbridge Madeley Market Drayton Newport Oswestry Shawbury Shifnal Shrewsbury Telford Wem Wellington Whitchurch

If your town is within the area indicated but not mentioned, or you live just outside the areas indicated please call us, we will try to help.

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