Black Cat wins the World Catfish Classics
The Black Cat Team debuted this year at the Catfish Classics in Spain and immediately managed to win the team competition. The team was split into three squads of each two anglers and one support person: Team 1 with Ingo Kuprian, Uwe Barthel and Stefan Seuß; Team 2 with Alexander Kunert, Thomas Grabitz and Riccardo […]
White Acres Fishery June 2012
THURSDAY’S MARUKYU RESIDENTS ROVER MATCH31st MAY 2012 100 ANGLERS FISHED ALL WATERS 1st MARK REES 153lb 02ozMONK LAKES Peg 22 Pollawyn Long pole with 8mm pellet deep 2nd ROBERT MINIKIN 138lb 12oz SONU BAITS Peg 45 Pollawyn Long pole with pellet shallow 3rd DAVE WORKMAN […]
National Fishing Month Provides Hope For Troubled Teens
As a full time angling coach, Professional Anglers’ Association Director Martin Porter considers himself to be a very lucky man. He has turned a lifetime hobby into a career by teaching troubled young people to fish. But his work is much more complicated than that. In fact, it’s as complex as the young people themselves […]
Real Eel Wins EFTTEX Lure Award
Savage has won the coveted ‘Best New Softlure’ category at EFTTEX 2102 with its revolutionary Real Eel. The award was judged by a panel of top angling journalists from around Europe and it represents the second year running that Savage has taken this category at the big European tackle trade exhibition, which took place over […]
Anger Over Approval Of River Thames Turbine Scheme At Abingdon
The Angling Trust has reacted angrily to the news that the Environment Agency has approved a controversial application for a hydropower development on the River Thames at Abingdon without any meaningful protection for fish and fishing. The development will involve three Archimedes screw turbines being installed into a mill stream, which will use most of […]
Angling Trust Challenges Farmers Union Over River Quality Claims
The Angling Trust and the Salmon & Trout Association have written to the Director General of the National Farmers Union (NFU) demanding a retraction of the NFU’s false claims in its “Farming Delivers for Britain” campaign that 73% of rivers are in good condition and that agriculture is responsible for reductions in gross pollution since […]
Maver ‘Match This’ – Defending Champion Qualifies
The reigning Maver ‘Match This’ Champion, Andy Power (Preston Thatchers), has qualified for this year’s event following victory at the recent Stafford Moor qualifier. After becoming the first ever person to win the £50k prize last year, the Somerset based angler will once again be in with a chance of securing the richest prize in […]
Angling Trust’s England Ladies Win Fly Fishing Silver
After winning gold medals at Llandegfedd, Wales in 2010 and Bewl Water, Kent in 2011 in the Home Internationals, The Angling Trust’s England Ladies Fly Fishing team was keen to continue this momentum and gain gold at the Lake of Menteith, Scotland on 24th May 2012 – something which has eluded them for 18 years. […]
Barney Wright Interview: FREE TO VIEW
The latest issue of Sea Watch – the video magazine for shore and boat anglers – includes a fascinating interview with ‘Total Sea Fishing’ editor Barney Wright. And it’s free to view here on this website. Barney talks about what it’s like to be editor of one of the UK’s leading angling magazines, and explains […]
Light Tackle Bass Fishing: FREE TO VIEW
In the May/June issue of video magazine Sea Watch, Boat Fishing Monthly editor Dave Barham is after bass on light gear out of Hayling Island in Southern England. And the made-for-TV programme is FREE TO VIEW here on this website. Dave is fishing with a bunch of keen boat anglers aboard ‘Sportsman’s Knight’, an old-fashioned […]
Sea Watch May/June Issue FREE TO VIEW
The latest issue of Sea Watch is live and packed with great entertainment and advice for shore and boat anglers everywhere – and it’s all FREE TO VIEW here on this website. Just click on the link below, and use the arrows to scroll through the playlist.WATCH SEA WATCH NOW Sea Watch NewsLatest from shore […]
The World According To Chris Yates…. Continued
Chris Yates returns to The Carp Channel for the latest issue as Ian Chillcott continues to find out what makes the eccentric former British carp record holder tick. ‘Chilly’ joins Chris and his antique fishing tackle, on the banks of one of his favourite fisheries as he recalls his quest to balance being an illustrator […]
Carp Channel New Issue: FREE TO VIEW
At last the summer sun is out and so is another great issue from The Carp Channel, and it’s positively screaming off with bucket loads of brilliant video for carp anglers… all of it FREE TO VIEW.WATCH THE CARP CHANNEL NOW There’s some three hours of great carp video from the UK and overseas in […]
Weils Disease: Product For Anglers Launched
Midlander Hadrian Garner is launching a product aimed at educating the angling community on how to avoid contracting Weils disease, after a fishing mad family member contracted it. Freshwater fishermen are especially susceptible to the condition, which is spread through rat’s urine at the water’s edge. If the disease, also called Leptospirosis, enters the bloodstream […]
Trout Fishing For Beginners At Packington
Hot weather isn’t generally great for trout fishing and while the rod average at Packington Somers in the last week has suffered, Sutton Coldfield angler C Hawkins will be delighted with the 10lb 14oz rainbow he caught from the bank on Cocks Close. The fish, the best of the week, fell for a black buzzer […]