Hall Publishing Ltd launched is latest angling magazine, Irish Angler, in Northern and Southern Ireland on 16th April.  Ireland only has two existing fishing magazines and, with over 150,000 Irish anglers and 84,000 angling visitors a year, the market has huge potential for this new title.  Irish Angler is distributed by MMC and the launch […]

Total-fishing.com north-east get-togetherBy Ben Fisk I HAD high hopes for this match, as at one stage last week 56 people were booked on and Woodlands was fishing well. However, a combination of drop outs and people not turning up on the day reduced the participation on the day to 40, but nevertheless an enjoyable day was […]

CONDOR FERRIESTHE lucky winner of a sea fishing weekend courtesy of Seymour Hotels and Condor Ferries is Total-Fishing.com user Les Yarrow. Many thanks to Condor Ferries marketing manager Chris Merrell for his generous sponsorship. Find out more about Condor Ferries at www.condorferries.com. ANGLERS WORLD HOLIDAYSThe ten lucky winners of our Anglers World Holiday competition, who each […]

THIS year’s Chatsworth Angling Fair, held over the weekend of May 22 and 23, will be the 25th in the event’s history – and looks likely to be the biggest and best yet.The many stars of the sport helping to celebrate the silver jubilee by demonstrating at the fair will include John Wilson, world famed […]

Macmillan Cancer Relief Fly Fishing Competition 2004 Scotland and Northern Ireland THIS year  Macmillan  Cancer  Relief  have  hooked  up  with  16 fisheries throughout  Scotland  and  Northern  Ireland  to  host  their  fly  fishing competition,  which  will  give  you  16 chances to catch the £1,000 tagged fish, or some of the other great prizes that are on offer!  You […]

SOME of the nations top teams were sensationally knocked-out of the three exciting Builder Center/NFA Team Knockout semi finals fished on Saturday (April 3, 2004). In the nail-baiting South-West event held at Stubpond Fishery near East Grinstead, competition favourites, Daiwa Dorking, failed to make the runner-up spot (and a guaranteed place in the Grand Final) […]

Labour Peer Baroness Golding has been appointed Chairman of the Countryside Alliance’s Campaign for Angling.  Baroness Golding, who takes over as Chairman of the Campaign from Bob James, is a keen angler and supporter of all fishing sports. She is on the Council of the Atlantic Salmon Trust, is Chairman of Second Chance (a young […]

The £1 billion a year sea angling industry, the growth area of British fishing, must play a full role in managing marine resources and continue to increase its contribution to the nation’s coastal economies. This unequivocal message has come from the government’s own “think tank” , the Prime Minister’s strategy unit, after a 14 month investigation […]

A modernised UK fishing industry can have a profitable and sustainable long-term future, says new reportThe UK’s fishing industry can be profitable and sustainable in the long term but must modernise to meet global competition, says a new report from the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.The report – ‘Net benefits: A Sustainable and Profitable Future for […]

Closing the sea bass fishery in the West Country from January to March will increase fish stocks and boost the tourist industry according to the Countryside Alliance. The Alliance is backing the Bass Angling Sportfishing Society’s (BASS) management plan which has been submitted to DEFRA, recommending the halting of bass pair trawling for the duration […]

A proposal to extend the salmon commercial netting season in the Erne Estuary has been heavily criticised by the rural lobbying group Countryside Alliance Ireland. The Northern Region Fishery Board (NRFS) are the Government body responsible for management of the estuary and are supposed to be conserving the salmon stocks in the area.Countryside Alliance Ireland who […]

 WAS the report exposing the levels of PCBs in farmed Scottish salmon just ‘another food scare’?  The Salmon & Trout Association is determined that the underlying dangers of unregulated salmon farming will not disappear just because the headlines have. It is now co-ordinating support for the forthcoming Aquaculture Bill.Our target is the proper independent regulation […]

After a frank admission that British fish stocks have collapsed, the government has been warned that future actions to protect them must be “taken in the interests of recreational sea anglers as much as in the interests of our dwindling commercial fishing industry.” Ted Tuckerman, chairman of the National Federation of Sea Anglers, wrote to Mrs. […]

The Countryside Alliance has renewed criticism of the RSPCA’s priorities following reports that they intend to investigate anglers and fish farmers for ‘cruelty’ to fish.The RSPCA and SSPCA have suggested that controversial research published last year by the Roslin Institute showed that fish can feel pain and the SSPCA has said: “We believe that fish […]