An Environment Agency partnership project is proving hugely successful in increasing barn owl numbers on Yorkshire rivers. Working in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Partnership the project has so far involved putting 44 nest boxes on poles and cutting the amount of mowing on river banks to improve the habitat for the small mammals that owls […]

After the resounding success of the Bourne Winter League, match organiser John Spalton is now running a similar King Of The Fens Summer League. The teams-of-six league is over five rounds, all on Sundays. Entry is £180 per team and, based on 10 teams, the winning squad will walk away with £800. Pools each match are […]

After ten years of stubbornly refusing recreational sea anglers any say in managing fisheries, the European Council has given up and agreed that the €8-€10 billion (£6-8 billion) they generate each year now qualifies them as a genuine part of the community’s fishing industry. Sea angling has been denied a role in the Common Fisheries […]

The National Association of Fisheries and Angling Consultatives (NAFAC) has welcomed the setting up of the new Angling Unity website. The new Angling Unity website went live last week and now offers an information resource that will grow as Unity is delivered. It currently ranks No:1 on a Google search  for ‘angling unity’ and has […]

It’s the dream of every dedicated fishing enthusiast to find the perfect home – next to a river, perhaps with its own mooring or even its own fishing rights.  Well the hunt just got easier with the launch today of some special new features by property search engine Globrix (www.globrix.com).  From today, the fisherman in […]

EFTTA DEMANDS ACTION OVER SNAKEHEAD FISH AFTER KILLER SPECIES IS CAUGHT IN UKEFTTA will be represented at a significant meeting next week in Brussels to discuss invasive non-native species – which comes days after a deadly ‘Snakehead’ fish was caught in a British river. The giant snakehead comes from south east Asia. But the capture […]

The Welsh Federation of Sea anglers has for many years successfully run a Personal Members Section enabling those Anglers who are not affiliated through Club membership to take advantage of all the privileges that the Federation has to offer. To affiliate as a Personal member, it will cost you just £10.00p per year, this running […]

Jack Steade passed away in a Sheffield hospital at 2pm on Monday, March 10th. He was 82.As boss of H Steade and Son, Jack saw the merit in sponsoring the England match fishing team and it was under the Steadefast Team England banner that the side took their first steps towards becoming the World’s number […]

Famous angler Paul Young is urging keen fisher men and women to raise money for a cancer charity ? while enjoying their favourite pastime. The angler, who presents Hooked on Fishing for Discovery Real Time, is backing Macmillan Cancer Support’s Big Fish. The event is taking place in 12 fisheries around Scotland and Northern Ireland, […]

Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland, the unique outdoor-based programme specifically designed for women who have, or have had, breast cancer, has announced that its first retreat for Northern Ireland will be held at Brookhall Trout Fishery in Co Antrim from 19th – 21st September 2008, and is inviting patients to apply for a place. […]

Catch Them Young participants are considering a protest March on Walsall Borough Council after it pulled funding from the project. The decision has left Roy Russell and two other full time staff devastated. They gave up their jobs to help problem youngsters through the scheme two years ago and are now unemployed. But Roy’s not […]

Entries are invited for an international carp tournament on a New York river that has produced nearly 30,000lb of carp in a previous event.The American Carp Society hosted a similar match last year on the Seneca River and catches were little short of incredible. Thirty-four two-man (or woman) teams from 14 states and four countries […]

‘Overseas anglers spend an estimated €90m a year’ Three new angling guides have been launched as part of a broader strategy for developing angling tourism in Ireland.  Brochures detailing information on COARSE, SEA and PIKE fishing are now available with further guides on SEA TROUT, SALMON and BROWN TROUT available shortly. These new guides are designed […]

              The Environment Agency has successfully culled more than 100,000 topmouth gudgeon from a lake and nearby ditch at Eversley in Hampshire. The fish,which are one of the most threatening invasive species in the country, were culled in a two day operation on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Despite being only 3-4 centimetres long,  topmouth […]

More than 2,000 Scouts every year earn their Angling Badge, and this year is set to be even better with the news that 46,000 copies of the new Scouts angling learning pack have been snapped up by Scout leaders since it was launched in October 2007.  The Environment Agency has supported the Scout’s angling badge […]