THE organisers of the popular Arva Festival on Ireland’s Lough Gowna are putting on an extra competition following an unexplained decision to move the King of Clubs.For many years matchmen have booked two weeks in the area in the first couple of weeks of September, fishing the Arva Festival one week and the King of […]

THE staff and pupils at Lampton School would like to thank members of www.total-fishing.com and www.total-fishingclub.com for making this year’s annual fishing match one they would remember for many years to come.Many of the pupils who participated were able to fish because of the generous donations of fishing tackle by visitors to the total-fishing.com website […]

The environmentally-friendly Stonze™ System will be utilised at the World Carp Classic in association with Rod Hutchinson, after manufacturer Pallatrax signed a sponsorship deal.Total Carp readers voted Stonze™ the best new product of 2003 – and participants at Lac Amance in October will be able to experience the unique product for themselves.Pallatrax managing director Simon […]

It seemed like an age, but months after originally mooting the idea of a get-together at Drayton, we were finally there: some local experts, some Drayton virgins, and some, like me, previously occasional visitors, just desperate to fish it again. The gaggle which assembled on the Dam Wall ready for the draw was probably the […]

CATHERINE Furness triumphed in the first ever White Acres Ladies Festival winning the three day 34-pegger at the Cornish holiday park with a total of 12 points clinching the £1000 first place prize.Catherine (Acomb Tackle, pictured below with one of her catches) opened her account in the friendly but firecely competitive event by notching up […]

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THE Second International Shark Tournament between the Brits vs. the Yanks was held in Montauk, New York on June 22-24, 2004.  The British anglers outscored the Yanks and won the beautiful and coveted Sloan Shark Cup designed by copper sculptor Hanes Hoffman. Both sides scored a combined total of 244,050 points over this 3-day tag […]

AFTER representing England for 20 successive years, Bob Nudd MBE, will not be included in this years National Federation of Anglers (NFA) International squads. But far from being disappointed at his exclusion the fifty-nine-year-old (who has just moved from Essex to live in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire) is upbeat about the decision to leave him out. “I […]

 to DEFRA figures a record 130,000 rod licences have been bought by children in the 12-16 age group for this season* – 30,000 more than last season and over 110,000 more than the 1999-2000 season. Campaign for Angling Director Charles Jardine commented: “I am absolutely delighted by this meteoric rise in angling’s popularity with the young. […]

 ALMOST £20-000 worth of prizes are at stake – and all you need to do is take a holiday here* during October, November, or December 2004 and catch a fish – its that simple.  Good luck and great skill are both rewarded by the prize structure, which is aimed at catch quality not quantity.  You […]

DRENNAN Team England did what England’s overpaid soccer stars failed to do … win the European Championships! After soccer let the nation down it was left to angling to bring back a gold medal from Hungary and give the country something to shout about. It was never going to be easy for the Drennan Team England […]

 TACKLE giant Garbolino has stepped in to sponsor a new competition in the sport’s newest publication Southern Angler, which will reward standout performances by match anglers in the region.Each month the Southern Angler team will pick, in its opinion, the best result achieved by a south-based angler from the previous month’s open, club international or […]