Matt Hayes back on TV - and you decide what he fishes for!
Fishing celebrity Matt Hayes has this week been signed up by the Discovery Channel for a new television series.
Angling Times first revealed that Matt had filmed a pilot called ‘24 Hour Rod Race’ in the Spring, and as a result of that initial recording, the project has now been commissioned for screening by Sky in 2012.
And AT readers can also play their part in the series by voting for the shows they want to see made.
A delighted Matt said: “It’s great news to be back working with Discovery – anglers have been asking me for a long time when we’d be making something new and this is a project I’m really looking forward to getting stuck into.
“And to celebrate the programs we’re asking Angling Times readers to vote for the shows you want me to create. I want to make this the greatest series we’ve ever produced – a series where anglers are involved from start to finish.”
*To have your say in the species Matt fishes for, see the latest copy of Angling Times - out today!
Trio share 1,000lb in Ireland
Anglers that have written off Ireland’s ‘glory days’ as a thing of the past may have to rethink their view after three anglers shared over 1,000lb between them in two days on the bank.
After hearing rumours of good catches at one of the country’s most famed waters, the lads decided to make the long trip from their South West base and were richly rewarded with fish averaging around 3lb coming virtually every drop for the duration of the fishing sessions.
“It was the most astonishing action we have ever experienced. Ireland has been criticised for its deteriorating sport but this is proof if it was ever needed that you can land the catch of a lifetime there,” explained group leader Malc Elstone.
For more details on one of the biggest catches to come from Ireland in the over a year and the rig that did the damage, see next week’s Angling Times, on sale Tuesday 5th July.
Opening Day River Catches
Rivers are off to a flyer with the highlight of opening morning a 34lb carp believed to be from a Cambridgeshire waterway.
The River Wye has seen the chub on the feed with eight in eight casts coming to Angling Times regular Terry Knight, whilst fishing the Red Lion stretch with Dynamite baits’ Red Robin boilies.
And barbel have been showing on the River Rother at Beignton as well as the weirs of the Trent. Boilies again taking the fish.
Elsewhere, Jason Ward has tackled the locks on the Nene around Northants and lured six perch over 2lb on floatfished lobworm and bleak livebaits.
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