Twenty six anglers braved the elements on Sunday the 6th February ay Ferryside in the hope of bagging up on Flounder’s in the latest of the Welsh Ladies Shore Team fundraiser organised by Helen Pearce the ladies team member and Manager. The match was to be fished on a measure and release system, this type […]

British Waterways is pleased to announce dates for its Stillwater Championship 2008 and the chance to win £5,000. Qualifying matches will be held at the following venues:- Boddington Reservoir 19th April 60 Pegs Drayton Reservoir 17th May 60 Pegs Earlswood Lakes (Engine) 7th June 60 Pegs Clattercote Reservoir 28th June 60 Pegs Blythe Waters 19th July 50 Pegs Stockton 9th August 40 Pegs Makins (Phase 1) 30th August 70 Pegs Final at Makins (Phase 1) 20th September    […]

Highlight of the TFCC seminar was to have been a talk by outspoken Brummie and angling columnist, Des Taylor, on the abolition of the Close Season on rivers – subject on which he has argued passionately many times in the past. Unfortunately, shortly after Keith Arthur, an even more forthright and familiar Angling Broadcaster and […]

British Waterways has been extremely busy preparing for 2008’s fishing season by enhancing its fisheries this winter.   3300lb of excess roach and perch have been removed from lake one at the Makin fisheries complex and transferred to canals within the West Midlands. The navigations benefiting from the additional stocks are the Coventry canal near Polesworth, […]

The Environment Agency has reduced the amount of water Thames Water can abstract from its Axford pumping station in the Kennet Valley by nearly one million cubic metres per year. The decision was made following an application from the company to extend its existing licence variation for the pumping station, which abstracts water from the River […]

‘All encompassing’ is the theme behind this year’s National Fishing Week. That’s the clear message from the organisers as the dates for the festival of fishing were confirmed as 19th – 27th July 2008. “We want to embrace all disciplines of the sport, and to this end it was crucial that we secured the help […]

The Environment Agency and Cambridgeshire Police are encouraging boaters to keep reporting crimes, by setting up a new email address for the Boat Watch scheme. Boaters on the Rivers Nene and Great Ouse are being urged to sign up to the Boat Watch scheme by emailing boatwatch@cambs.pnn.police.uk, and boaters already signed up are being asked to […]

Two exciting Environment Agency-led projects are just one step away from scooping national honours after reaching the finals of this year’s prestigious Waterways Renaissance Awards. The Clean Becks Campaign and Hemlington Lakes Angling Improvements Scheme (first phase), both Middlesbrough-based, outshone a host of entries to make the last stage of The Waterways Trust and  British Urban […]

Its name means ‘clear’, but in recent years the River Clyst has been anything but clean and clear. Monitoring by the Environment Agency has revealed a disturbing loss of wildlife and decline in fish numbers in this important Devon river. Starting next month a team of Agency officers will try to identify sources of pollution that […]

Over 200 anglers are set to compete in the largest Coarse Fishing Competition ever to hit Scottish waters as part of this year’s Burns an A That! Festival celebrations. AYRSTRIKE, the Festival Fishing Competition, is expected to attract competitors from all over Scotland in a bid to net the largest cash prize in Scottish fishing […]

More than 400,000 fish were stocked in rivers, canals, ponds and lakes across England and Wales last year as part of the Environment Agency’s on-going work to maintain, improve and develop freshwater fisheries.  The fish were raised at the Environment Agency fish farms at Calverton and Leyland where the highest levels of biosecurity are maintained […]

‘All encompassing’ is the theme behind this year’s National Fishing Week. That’s the clear message from the organisers as the dates for the festival of fishing were confirmed as 19th – 27th July 2008.  “We want to embrace all disciplines of the sport, and to this end it was crucial that we secured the help […]

The angling industry has come together to get behind the National Federation of Anglers and show their support for the development of angling through membership of the Governing Body for freshwater angling. Since the launch of the NFA’s three new commercial memberships for fisheries, tackle shops and manufacturers at the end of 2007, the NFA […]