MATCH FISHING – NOVEMBER ISSUE Raison’s DozenWill visits a venue where he’s caught 100lb EVERY time he’s been. Find out where it is and how to fish it. Carp From The Start Commercial fishery bagging machine Steve Ringer shows you how to use various types of paste to catch big weights of carp. Advanced River Fishing  Drennan North-West […]

THE NFA has landed a panel of top class speakers for their ambitious Seminar planned for Monday, November 1, 2004 at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham.  The Minister for Sport, the Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP, Martin Salter MP, the Parliamentary Fishing and Shooting Spokesperson, Dr Dafydd Evans, Head of Fisheries, EA, […]

Parkdean Masters 2004 Day 4 Day four and the cold easterly wind is leveling the field, you can cut the tension with a knife as its only the top six overall that can sit back with the 32 points that should be enough to get them into the final. Our hero in the fishing lodge […]

THE Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) National River Fly Survey results demonstrate that there has been a dramatic decline in river fly numbers from the 1950s to 2001. Peter Hayes, the Survey co-ordinator, explains that, ¡§River flies are the miner¡¦s canary of environmental quality.  They have been declining at a tremendous rate. While there are indications […]

Total Carp Magazine – November 2004ON SALE – 20-10-04 ‘24’Derek Ritchie takes two anglers fishing for 24 hours at Kent’s Chillham Mill. The aim? To bag a few autumn twenties. On Ya Marks!Want to catch a 20lb common? Mark Law and Marc Coulson have just the venue, and show you how to do it. Mastermind One of the […]

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF ANGLERS Executive Manager(Membership Services and Sport Development) Salary £22,000 to £25,000 per annum  We are looking for an experienced professional to head our Central Office currently based at Egginton, Derby, although a move to the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, is being considered. This is an exciting opportunity for a committed and dedicated […]

THE Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) is deeply concerned that the government’s go-ahead for water companies to include environmental improvements in their workplans is too little, too late – and penalises the innocent.  The EU Water Framework Directive, setting minimum quality standards that most British rivers would now fail, is a clarion call for action […]

THE capture of a new record barbel at 20lb 6oz has been confirmed to Total-Fishing. The fish fell to Northants Specimen Group stalwart Tony Gibson, who was fishing the well known Adams Mill section of the Great Ouse. It’s one of the venue’s known big fish, called ‘The Traveller’, and fell to a Source boilie, fished in […]

Sunday’s strong winds and heavy rain stirred up the sport on the first day of the Preston Innovations festival. Overall winner on day one was Grant Albutt drawing peg 26 Pollawyn. Grant fished the long pole with meat at five feet deep catching all Carp for a brilliant weight of 186lb 02oz. 2nd on day […]

THE British government decision that it will ban pair trawling for bass to stop the abhorrent slaughter of hundreds of dolphins caught in the nets, will also be a major step towards allowing only rod-and-line fishermen, both commercial and recreational, to catch bass.  “This has been the aim of recreational sea anglers for more than 30 […]

The Countryside Alliance Campaign for Angling, together with the National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA), welcomes Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw MP’s announcement that pair-trawling within 12 miles of the UK‘s coastline is to be banned. Whilst this measure is primarily to protect marine animals such as dolphins it will also lead to greater protection of […]

It’s been a great start to the autumn’s shore fishing throughout the islands of the Guernsey Bailiwick, with not only a remarkable variety of species being landed, but also a high number of good specimens.   The most startling news has been the appearance of trigger fish and Couch’s sea bream. Only a few years ago they […]

A STUNNING library of fishing books collected by the wealthy industrial barons of Manchester during the 19th Century, rediscovered in private hands after 65 years, will be sold by Bonhams in Honiton at 11am on October 15th.The Angling sale offers fifty lots from The Manchester Angling Association’s library, many with personal dedications by the authors. […]

Representatives of Britain’s 3.5 million anglers have given their full backing to measures announced today by DEFRA minister Ben Bradshaw to protect freshwater fish stocks from serious damage as a result of increased predation by cormorants coming inland from the sea. Since the 1970s there has been a massive increase in the number of cormorants […]

Confused not me says the Scone………. After all the Sledging over the last few weeks on all the forums the Final Match in the Intersite series was upon us.Barston Lake owned by Nigel Harrhy was the chosen venue and looked in splendid condition considering all the bad weather we have had in September. A few had been […]