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IFGA launches new website as it celebrates 80th birthday….
The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) is launching a new website and membership structure. “As we celebrate our 80th anniversary this year, we’re very excited to launch a new website that better reflects the future direction of the IGFA and a new membership structure that provides our members with an increased level of benefits,” said […]
Canoeing governing body branded irresponsible for encouraging its members to trespass
The National Governing Body for paddlesports, British Canoeing, has issued a Charter for Access that encourages its members to trespass which may damage the interests of other legitimate users of watercourses. These include thousands of angling clubs in communities throughout England and Wales. The document repeats fundamentally flawed suggestions by British Canoeing in recent years […]
Biggest ever Taimen on the fly tops 83lb
Guido Rahr III potentially set the new men’s 10kg (20lb) tippet class world record for taimen (Hucho taimen) with this incredible 83lb 3oz (37.76kg ) brute that he caught and released on Russia’s Tugar River. If approved, the catch will be the heaviest taimen ever recorded by the IGFA on fly tackle and will replace […]
Angling Trust lands £250,000 funding to campaign to protect fish stocks
The Angling Trust has successfully applied for £250,000 funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to campaign over the next three years on high priority conservation issues affecting marine and freshwater fish. This award builds on a grant from the same funder over the last two years and will enable the Trust to expand its capacity […]
Fishing Festivals: Catching Fish Around the World
Pic: Fishing festivals are popular all over the world It’s easy to think of fishing as a solitary pastime. Sitting on the bank, lost in your thoughts, enjoying a few hours of peace and quiet away from work and family responsibilities. But for many, fishing is a social activity, and they like nothing better than […]
Wimborne Crucians Find New Home
The National Crucian Conservation Project (NCCP) is celebrating the creation of yet another bespoke crucian and tench water thanks to the vision and hard work of Wimborne and District Angling Club with help and funding from the Angling Trust and the Environment Agency. A celebratory day, organised by film maker and long-standing club member Hugh […]
Angling Trust urges clubs and fisheries to increase licence applications for the control of cormorants and goosanders
The Angling Trust is urging angling clubs and fisheries to submit more licence applications over the coming winter to ensure that the maximum number of birds are controlled. Government ministers have made it clear that they won’t consider raising the current 3,000 cap on the number of birds that can be shot until we can […]
Win a Day With Des Shipp or Will Raison
Match anglers partaking in Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery’s Jenny Hamlington Memorial will have the chance to win a day’s coaching with England regulars Des Shipp or Will Raison plus some great prizes in the charity raffle. The annual match takes place at the Midlands Fishery on July 10th 2018 at £15 per ticket, with an […]
Surry Police join TRAVERSE fight against fish theft and illegal fishing…
Surrey Police has become the latest force to sign up to Operation TRAVERSE – the multi-agency initiative launched four years ago to tackle fish theft and illegal fishing. The commitment creates an important link with surrounding forces and provides a wider roll-out of the operation in the East and South East of England. Operation TRAVERSE […]
Prince of Wales among luminaries taking interest in the plight of our rivers….
The Angling Trust has been taking its campaigns for restoring fish stocks right to the top over the past month, with a series of high profile events involving numerous MPs, the Environment Minister, the Secretary of State for the Environment and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. At a catchment management summit last week, […]
Subtopia – An underwater online slot game you must definitely try!
If you’re crazy about the underwater world and also love gambling every now and then, Subtopia is an online slot game you must definitely try! With Fish O Mania still a couple of months away, Subtopia can be just the right game for you to satiate your gambling needs! A product of NetEnt, a very […]
Big fine for water company following hazardous chemical leak that killed 30,000 River Amber fish
On 19 April 2018, at Derby Crown Court, sitting in Nottingham, Severn Trent Water Limited was fined £350,000, ordered to pay Environment Agency costs of £68,003, as well as a victim surcharge of £120. An estimated 30,000 dead fish and 5km of damaged ecology along the River Amber led to proceedings brought against Severn Trent […]
Shropshire farmer £36,000 lighter after serious breach of pollution regulations….
On 16 April 2018, Telford Magistrates’ Court fined the 55 year-old £16,000 and ordered him to pay £20,000 in costs, along with a £170 victim surcharge. The charges were brought by the Environment Agency under the Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2008 and Sections 24(1) and (4) of the Water Resources Act 1991. The Environment Agency […]
Clarissa The Carp the face of the new fishing licence…
To the delight of the country’s anglers, the Environment Agency has revealed today that Clarissa the Carp (Cyprinus carpio) – for 28 years a UK record weighing Carp – will be represented on the front of the Environment Agency’s fishing coarse & trout licence. Clarissa was chosen to mark the centenary birth of renowned angler […]
Anglian Water Report November 21st, 2017: 39lb pike from Pitsford Water
Week ending 19 November 2017 39lb 2oz monster Pike at Pitsford fish of a lifetime for Paul Adams www.anglianwater.co.uk/leisure Rutland Water 01780 686441; Grafham Water 01480 810531; Pitsford, Ravensthorpe & Hollowell 01604 781350, Taverham Mills Fishery 01603 861014; Alton Water 01473 589105 Recreation Dept Anglian Water 01572 653021 Rutland Water We have seen […]
