The Environment Agency in Sussex is planning to ‘blitz’ the riverbanks over the first two weekends in October and is reminding anglers to ensure they are fishing by the rules.Agency Officers will be patrolling around the clock to catch up with rod licence dodgers. Anglers who are unable to produce the correct paperwork could now […]

THE BBH/NFA England Team for Anglers with Disabilities had to endure two days of wind, rain and hail in the World Championships fished on the five-acre Lago Borghese lake at Monsummano Terme in Italy at the weekend (Saturday/Sunday, October 4/5.) Nine nations participated in the storm-lashed event and vehicles had to be driven into the […]

CASTLE Howard Lake has been forced to close to anglers after cormorants decimated the Yorkshire venue’s stocks.The picture postcard day ticket venue used to be famed for its vast bream shoals and excellent pike sport, and was regularly featured in magazines such as Improve Your Coarse Fishing.However, according to estate manager Duncan Peake, the quality […]

Government Issues Warning: Angling In Guernsey Could Seriously Improve Your Wealth! THIS autumn the Guernsey Tourist Board, together with industry partners in transport and accommodation and leading tackle suppliers Daiwa, is making you an offer you can’t refuse.A small investment of your time could see you share in prizes worth well over a total of £15,000. The […]

THE first ever Fishathon held by The Prostate Cancer Charity cast off to a great start on Saturday 27th September when 70 finalists (seasoned and first-time anglers) competed for the 280 specially-tagged carp to hook some great prizes including cash, fishing equipment and a Rover Tourer Estate.A keen angler netted the catch of the day […]

SCOTTISH angler Malcolm Todd is attempting to claim a new UK tope record after landing a huge specimen believed to weigh in excess of 100lb. It was caught just 200 yards off Portpatrick in Dumfries and Galloway.The fish was caught aboard Mike Woods’ Portpatrick-based boat ‘Silver Line’ on a mackerel bait. It took him over […]

THE annual Daiwa Open fished on the Holderness coast is expected to attract over 1,000 anglers who will all be competing for the anticipated £3,000 first prize (depending on the attendance).The match has been moved to later in the year and will be fished on Sunday, December 7th. This has been done to coincide with the […]

THE chairman of the English Carp Heritage Organisation, has given an impassioned talk to Government representatives about the dangers of illegal fish imports and the associated spread of disease.Ian ‘Chillie’ Chilcott was accompanied by ECHO committee member Viv Shears of RMC Angling at the meeting with government scientists and fish health inspectors at their CEFAS […]

DAVE Lane has become the first angler in history to catch four genuineDIFFERENT English carp weighing over 50lb. This follows his captures of TwoTone from Conningbrook, the late Mary from Wraysbury and The Eye fromSonning.He achieved this incredible feat on 24th September, when he banked a mirrorknown as the ‘Fat Lady’ from a club/syndicate water […]

SUDBURY, Suffolk angler, Glenn Carter, 39, won the 230-peg British Waterways sponsored, National Federation of Anglers, Individual Championship (Saturday, September 20) thanks to a hungry 4lb pike that snapped at a small roach being reeled in: “I expected the pike to release the roach once it spotted my landing net but it hung on to […]

A Cornish man was ordered to pay £150 in fines and costs for not returning two undersize bass to the river Fowey at Lostwithiel. The case was brought by the Environment Agency.On April 30, 2003 an agency officer was on enforcement patrol on the River Fowey at Shire Hall Moor when he saw a man […]

A RARE species will be among many to benefit from new improvements to the fish pass at Boroughbridge on the River Ure in North Yorkshire.The Environment Agency and British Waterways have just put the finishing touches to a £76,000 joint scheme to improve fish passage over Boroughbridge Weir which will help lampreys, an internationally protected […]

SOME of the country’s most important rivers need more protection from damaging pollution, new data from the Environment Agency reveals.In England and Wales, nearly 20% of rivers designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)– the UK’s top conservation status – are failing to achieve top chemical water quality classifications. Only an estimated 80% of […]

WORK has started to build a new fish pass in Pembrokeshire at Haverfordwest town weir on the Work Work has started to build a new fish pass in Pembrokeshire at Haverfordwest town weir on the Western Cleddau costing nearly a quarter of a million pounds. Currently salmon and sea trout are unable to negotiate the […]

ONE of Total-Fishing’s partner shops, Harrison’s of Lincoln, has recently revamped its site and all those buying off the site are entered into a competition which sees one angler walk off with a tackle prize. The latest competition, which runs until the end of October, will see someone winning a Shimano Alivar reel, pictured below.The […]