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Qualifier tickets for The Angling Bait Club will go on sale no later than the 28th February 2010. This preliminary date may be brought forward if membership capacity is reached in the interim. As expressed on the site, it is hoped that by the management of the club membership numbers, that each person that wishes […]
Fishy Christmas stockings scale new heights in West Midlands
The Environment Agency revealed today that the early Christmas present of fish from the Environment Agency’s Calverton Fish Farm near Nottingham last month to re-stock the Rivers Trent and Tame and other West Midlands waters reached a grand total of 95,500 fish. They brought new hope to stretches of water that were affected by pollution […]
World Record Carp For ‘Lucky Locke’
An English carp angler has set a new carp world record with a massive 94lb brute taken by Solar Tackle’s Martin Locke. The mighty fish – known by carp anglers as ‘Briggs Fish’ – was landed at swim 12 on the 110-acre Rainbow Lake near Bordeaux in France, and is a fish that the Kent […]
Fishery Owners Urged To Break The Ice
Britain’s current Arctic freeze-up could lead to an explosion in the number of fish deaths in stillwater fisheries. As a result, venue owners are being urged to take immediate steps to protect stocks during the current cold snap. The Professional Coarse Fisheries Association (PCFA) has advised its members and others responsible for running fisheries to […]
Angling Trust Nationals 2010
The dates have been released for the Angling Trust Nationals in 2010. The Angling Trust has resisted the temptation to create on main event, sticking with a Division One National (on the River Trent in August), and a Division Two, on the Erewash Canal in July. National Championship Date Location Division 1 National Championship Saturday 21st August […]
Cracking The Wide River Welland
River Welland ace Mick Parkinson fishes one of his Spalding club’s venues to prove that the famous river is bouncing back despite the rising popularity of commercial carp lakes. Find the colour in the water and fish Mick’s way and double-figure bags are on the cards. I LOVE fishing the Welland. It’s a challenge for […]
The Bay Malton Angling Club has now officially opened its “Angling Development Centre”,
The Bay Malton Angling Club has now officially opened its “Angling Development Centre”, aimed at promoting junior angling from its Border Fishery site near Crewe Cheshire. Bay Malton AC are awaiting the award of their Clubmark certification work in partnership with Dave Smith’s Get Hooked on Fishing Border scheme at their Border site, from where […]
Martin Bowler Strengthens Co-operation with OKUMA!
UK Fishing Guru, Martin Bowler, pro-longs contract with OKUMA fishing reel Giant!Martin’s massive success with the DVD’s “catching the impossible” have made him superstar in the trade and OKUMA’s incredible wide range of quality fishing reels, suits his versatile fishing perfect!The next season will se a Strengthened co-operation between Martin and EU OKUMA distributor Svendsen […]
Views of anglers needed for new fish movement laws….
Consultation document from DEFRA over replacement law for section 30 fish movement legislation – anglers’ views sought. The introduction of fish, whether native or alien, into inland waters can be detrimental to fisheries and to local and/ or national biodiversity through competition, predation, disease transfer and hybridisation, or through impacts on the aquatic habitat. The current […]
Pole Fishing On The Warwickshire Avon
Although my favourite style of fishing the Avon is with a pole for roach, there are times when you have to accept that the peg you have drawn isn’t good enough to win with them and that you’ll have to focus attention on other fish. Over the past few years there has been a remarkable […]
Picking Pockets in the Alpes Maritimes
By Robert MacDougall-Davis Re-produced from an article originally published in Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Rugged mountains pierce the heavens and here, in amongst the pine forests and wild flowers, cascading torrents and sapphire rivers flow. The air, swollen with the sweet alpine scent of aromatic pine needles, wafts down the mountains in warm pockets […]
The Barston Christmas Event
The Barston Christmas event is usually one of the big occasions of the winter on the open match scene, but with a couple of inches of ice on the shallow big lake, venue owner Nigel Harrhy was forced to try and call the whole thing off. However, he didn’t have the phone number of everyone […]
Win A £540 Bivvy Just By Sending An Email
The Carp Spectacular is back and it’s bigger and better than ever before. The January 9th/10th event is the only show where you can see all of these; Freespirit, Nash Tackle, Aqua Products, Fox, Trakker, Angling Intelligence, Venture, Prestige Engineering, Avtex and lots more. Many manufacturers are exclusively only exhibiting at the show, showing all […]
River Churnet Received A Christmas Present Of 500 Fish
A stretch of the River Churnet at Consall Forge in Staffordshire that had been badly affected by pollution has received a Christmas present of 500 fish. The 500 cub released into the river by the Environment Agency fisheries team completes the re-stocking programme for the River Churnet following a pollution incident caused by agricultural waste […]
Arthur Takes A Ribbing, But Wins The Day
Twenty teams of three braved the cold for the second round of the Hankat Teams Of Three Winter League run by Lee Woodhouse, and for some reason the areas that fished best last time – notably the Dixon street length – was right off form with several dry nets.That opened things right up and opened […]
