Adventure angler Steve Townson – star of Fishing TV’s ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ series – achieved a lifelong ambition when he landed this massive wild arapaima estimated at 250lb from Middle River Essequibo river in Guyana, South America. Steve, a Brit who has travelled the world to catch exotic fish, caught the mighty arapaima, plus another […]
Brit Lands 250lb Arapaima On A Piranha Bait
Maver Midlands Master Makins!
The mighty Maver Midlands squad secured victory to win the Angling Trust Winter League Semi Final at Makins Fishery to earn their place in the grand final. The team put in a near faultless performance to secure victory with an impressive 77 points out of a possible 90. Over the last month the Maver Midlands […]
£50,000 Match This Winner On Facebook
Midlands commercial fishery ace Les Thompson is the latest angler to be booked in for the Bait-Tech Facebook Session With The Stars. Les, who pocketed a cool £50,000 purse when he won the 2012 Maver Match This title and has also appeared in the Fish ‘O’ Mania final will be online on the Bait Tech […]
Chance To Take On The UK Champs Heavyweights
An 80-peg qualifier at Barston Lakes in May will decide who will join the 40 automatic entrants for the prestigious UK Champs in 2013. The longest running event in the match fishing calendar will once again be televised and will see the cream of British match anglers alongside the Barston qualifiers fishing off for a […]
Match Fishing Drawbags Take Tunnel Barn Farm Winter League
Richard Knowles cruised to victory with 154lb of mirror carp from Peg 13 on Club Pool fishing bread to the island and down the edge, well ahead of second-placed Nigel Rimmer pegged opposite him on Peg 11, who used the same tactics for 90lb 10oz. The Match Fishing Drawbags team of Steve Ringer, Jon Arthur, […]
Join ‘The TSF Academy’ In The Latest Issue Of Sea Watch
The latest issue of Sea Watch – the video magazine for shore and boat anglers everywhere – sees the launch of a new series with Total Sea Fishing editor Barney Wright based on his Academy series. The first episode of ‘TSF Academy’ has Barney in his tackle shed, showing how he goes about tying the […]
Sports Direct Supports Angling Causes
Newcomer to the angling market, high street retailer Sports Direct, has committed support and pledged significant finance to angling associations and charities. In a ground-breaking agreement, Sports Direct will be sponsoring the Professional Anglers Association’s (PAA) series of coaching roadshows for 2013 that will cover a range of nationwide angling and country show events. The […]
Do The Continental With Game Fisher’s Diary….
The latest issue of Game Fisher’s Diary is a chance to escape from the Arctic weather as we take you to fly fishing destinations on four continents…. Rae Borras travels to Iceland and the Breiddalsa river, where he can’t work out whether the elves that everyone seems to believe in, or the salmon are the hardest […]
30,000 Euros Prize Fund In The Donegal Treble Hook
Ireland’s ‘Mr Sea Angling’, Norman Dunlop, is the brains behind an innovative new multi discipline angling festival in the Donegal Bay area, with a chunky prize fund of over 30,000 Euros. Run in partnership with Donegal Angling Holidays, The Donegal Treble Hook will attract coarse, sea and game anglers, with the team catching the most […]
Over £5,000 Raised For RNLI At 2013 World Dab Champs
A huge turnout of 216 anglers braved horrendous conditions to compete in the World Dab Championships, fished on the beaches of Dungeness in Kent. This annual event is fished mainly to raise money for good causes, and it certainly did that, with a cheque for £5309 winging its way to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. […]
Clark Is The 25th Irish Shore Champ
England’s Chris Clark was top rod in the 25th Irish Shore Fishing Festival, walking away with a cheque for 1,000 euros following a perfect score of three zone wins. Fished at three different beach marks around Leinster, 60 competing anglers found mainly flounders, dabs, whiting, rockling and coal fish feeding in spurts at the start […]
North East England 2013 Angling Trust Kayak Competition
A new Kayak Championship is being organised in the north east of England under the expert guidance of angling journalist and broadcaster Sam Harris. Backed by Moonfleet Angling, which is putting up an angling kayak as the top prize, it’s a heaviest fish competition that will be fished over June 29th and 30th from launch […]
Whiting Beats 32-Year-Old British Record
How about this for a whiting? If you think it’s a monster you are right, in fact it’s the new British boat caught best after being ratified by the British record fish committee. The 7lb 6oz fish was caught using an Eddystone Eel by Mark Curtis off Plymouth and beats the old record, held since […]
Will Raison Shows Mild Manners In This Month’s Issue
Will Raison Shows Mild Manners In This Month’s Issue In the belief that there will finally be a break in these Arctic conditions, former world champ Will Raison shows how to approach match fishing in a mild winter spell in the latest issue of ‘Coarse & Match Fishing’. This latest instalment of ‘Will Raison’s Match Year’ […]
Great News for Recreational Sea Anglers
The Angling Trades Association (ATA) has warmly welcomed the momentous decision to outlaw the despised commercial practice of discarding healthy but unwanted marine fish back into the sea. Between one-quarter and one-third of the total catch quota of EU fishermen is estimated to be discarded, and this may rise as high as 90% of the […]
