The REEL project team, which encouraged people in Lincolnshire to try the sport of angling and made habitat improvements for wildlife, is celebrating after winning a prestigious Environment Agency award for best ‘Community Engagement Project’.  The three year REEL (Recreation and Environmental Enhancements in Lincolnshire) project was launched in 2004 and improved rivers and drains […]

The fishing tackle trade can continue to make products containing lead – after The European Parliament didn’t repeat its demand for a ban on the substance at the second reading of the Laperrouze Report. Confronted with arguments and reports from the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament realised that there were […]

Cup Craft is the revolutionary new bait delivery system for pole anglers from Tancho Tackle that makes cupping in bait super accurately, in any conditions, a doddle. It means no more spilling bait from ‘pole bounce’, and will see you cupping in your bait at distance more accurately and more quickly than the anglers around […]

Wychavon Championship Qualifier Saturday July 5thWarwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry65 pegs An 18lb carp, believed to be the biggest fish ever landed in a match at Evesham, put Dave Harrell in pole position at the latest Wychavon qualifier on a very difficult Warwickshire Avon which saw most of the field struggling for […]

HIGHFIELD angler Syd Marston ‘danced a jig of delight’ after banking what’s thought to be the biggest tench ever caught in the north of England at 11lb 6oz – from a day ticket water.Syd (62) banked the big female from £4-a-day Ryhill Reservoir at Wintersett, West Yorkshire, a venue on the Leeds DAA book with […]

Restored fishery hosts national competition  A national team angling competition, the ‘King of the Fens’,  is going to be hosted by Benwick Angling club on Sunday 6 July on the Old Nene at Benwick. The club has been chosen to host the prestigious competition following the restoration of the banks of the old course of […]

The  Environment  Agency  will be attending the London Youth  Games  at  Crystal Palace National Sports Centre this weekend, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 July 2008. The  two day event of activities is jointly hosted by London Youth Games, Thames Water  and the National Federation of Anglers. It will be action packed  with  a multitude  of  […]

Greg Cooper from Mansfield won the final PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier yesterday at well known match venue, Lindholme Lakes near Doncaster. It was Super Cooper who took victory at the popular Yorkshire venue and beat a full house of anglers all looking to take advantage of their last chance to qualify for the biggest […]

The ACA, the NFA and local anglers have successfully forced a retreat on the proposed swan sanctuary at Bewdley. Angling interests combined to provide local councillors at Bewdley with the information that they needed to make an informed decision on the proposal to ban angling from the heart of Bewdley.  The deaths of swans in […]

 On Friday 28 June, the actions of the Environment Agency prevented an oil spill entering the Wishing Tree Reservoir in St Leonards-on-Sea, in East Sussex.  The Environment Agency received a report of oil entering the reservoir and attended the site to investigate. This is a major amenity in the Hastings area and is very popular […]

Heat 2 of the 2008 Wales Carp Masters took place at Celtic Lakes Resort over the weekend of 20th June – 22nd June. Six pairs of carp anglers braved the often atrocious conditions in Heat 2 of the competition. Position Team Weight 1 Ian Carter & Paul Hatton 237lb 15oz  2 Gary Wady & Pat “No […]

A group of budding angling coaches went through a Level 1 Angling Coaching course this weekend held at Barford Lakes – the first of its kind to be conducted in Norfolk.  The course was run by Robbie Williams (Senior Eastern Region Coach/Education Officer for the National Federation of Anglers) and Jo Hyde (National Federation of […]

The inaugural F.I.P.S.ed organised Veterans World Championships is taking place next weekend (12th and 13th July 2008) on the River Tamega in northern Portugal, where the NFA England Veterans team will aspire to bring home our first gold medals of the summer. The England Ladies team has fished the venue near Chaves twice before back […]

Andrew Neal from Abergavenny, won the penultimate PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier last weekend at Moorlands Fishery in Hartlebury, near Kidderminster, booking the Welshman’s place in the 2008 final. The match had a full house, of 130 anglers taking part meaning there would be no spare pegs to exploit, like the previous weekends winner who […]