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Crabtree finds a true Champion in Gransnet

Win a Father’s Day prize bundle with Gransnet! Click here to enter and win a Mr. Crabtree book, DVD and Bobble hat package worth £60!

We’re delighted to announce a collaboration with new Crabtree Ambassador Gransnet, the social networking site for the UK’s 14 million grandparents, and sister site to Mumsnet.

Paula Battle, Crabtree Communications Director says: “We’ve been working hard on the Crabtree Crusade, and introducing Crabtree to community groups and Gransnet is just the perfect partner for us. […]

Launching The Crabtree Crusade!

Pick up the Angler’s Mail this weekend for a three-page exclusive on The Crabtree Crusade […]

May the fish be with you…..

We’re fans of the ‘May the fourth be with you…’ puns here at Crabtree but […]

The Ebooks have landed!

 

A hearty pat on the back to all the contributors to our February #CrabtreeChallenge! We’ve […]

I Love Fishing – February’s Crabtree Challenge

If you’ve been kicking around with us for a while you might remember that it’s around this time of year that we start talking about ‘Venables Day’.

Also know as Valentines Day (to some), it’s the birthday of the great man; hailed by many as the godfather of modern angling – Mr. Bernard Venables. […]

Are you a Mo Bro?

Are you in?
 

Visit Movember for more info on this worthy cause…

John Bailey’s Barbel Challenge

This week sees the start of John Bailey’s Wensum Barbel Challenge. John has taken up […]

Fishing in the bureaucrats’ playground

Our ‘Fishing in the Footsteps of Mr Crabtree’ presenter John Bailey appeared recently on the BBC1 News sofa, to discuss the EA’s reports of falling numbers of youngsters and teenagers in taking up angling.

The show’s researchers told us that they’d watched and enjoyed the first series of Mr Crabtree and wanted to have an articulate, positive response and view, to what was – in effect – a very negative news story.

We’re all aware of potential pitfalls from putting one of our people in front of a journalist, reporter or presenter, whose sole aim is to attack and not give a balanced view and so we prepped with John – who is smart, capable and articulate enough to deal with such possible ambushes – and if you saw it – didn’t he have to be?! […]