The Environment Agency has welcomed the weekend’s rainfall following the growing number of reports it had received about fish and other aquatic life that have suffered during the prolonged dry weather. Low rainfall, high temperatures and the heavy demand on water supplies dried out ponds and reduced flow levels in rivers throughout Kent, Sussex, Hampshire […]

HALLCROFT Fishery is being put up for sale, Total-Fishing can reveal.Joint owner Bran Talbot will be moving over from the Retford complex to manage Moorlands Farm in Worcestershire, with his brother John Talbot retiring from the fishery management game. John Talbot“It’s a sad day really because we have built up the fishery from scratch into one […]

TORY leader Iain Duncan Smith has said that if they get power at the next election, his party will scrap the national rod licence. Smith, who is a keen angler, told Angling Times: “Fishing is a costly sport and over the years tackle has become more and more expensive and on most banks you have to […]

THE Environment Agency is asking anglers to dig out any tackle they were thinking of getting rid of or replacing and to pass it on to them. For its part, the Agency is undertaking to supply used equipment anglers no longer need to youngsters, so they can get involved in the sport. Environment Agency fisheries […]

THE second www.total-fishing.com Northern get-together of 2003 was a great success. Despite a few drop outs in the 24 hours leading up to the match, 48 of the north’s finest (and worst!) still turned out at the prolific Woodland lakes fishery, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Apologies for the draw being slightly late but a last […]

TACKLE firm Shakespeare has come to the rescue of the August bank holiday River Avon festival on the Warwickshire Avon with a £7000 plus sponsorship package. The event, which was sponsored by brewer John Smith’s until it pulled out last year, will now be called the Shakespeare Evesham Festival.Long time organiser Dick Derrington is finally […]

THE Scottish island of Islay is to host the European Fly Fishing Championships from Septmber 8th-12th, with backing from the islands whiskey distillers Morrison Bowmore.Sixteen countries will be taking part in what’s the biggest fishing event ever held on the idland. The countries expected to field teams of five include Scotland, France, Norway, Wales, Sweden, […]

Whizzo Youth Classic 2003  Report by Kevin Webster, Whizzo Groundbaits (event sponsor)  Match One“Match Fishing is safe!” This was the opening line, from match co-organisor Chris Durrant, at the Whizzo Youth Classic’s presentation held at Risby Park near Hull on Saturday 23rd August.The Classic is a team of six event, fished over two, four-hour matches. Teams […]

 Left, the ladies ball it in at the start of Day One on Furzton. Right, the England team before the big event.All pictures by Steve Martin , Angling Journalist and Photographer, Tel – 01202 777892 Mob – 07812 360278, email – steve.martin1@ntlworld.comWHITE Acres NFA Team England Ladies sealed the fate of all opposition with a masterful […]

THE cold water coral reef off the north coast of Scotland, known as the Darwin Mounds, is to receive emergency protection, Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw has announced.The Darwin Mounds were discovered in 1998. They are sandy and cold water coral stacks, 1000m below the sea’s surface, about 185km northwest of Scotland. Marine life living on […]

THREE brothers who were fishing for freshwater fish using a handline have landed a total of £750 in fines and costs. In cases heard in Bridgend Magistrates’ on 19 August 2003, Dwayne and Steven Watts, both of Tenison Road , St Cradocs , Pontypool were found guilty of fishing for freshwater fish in the River […]