Broad Acres Fishery at Hanbury has begun its Summer Pairs League with a bang – the first event saw the venue record of 186lb smashed out of sight with a 257lb bag and out of 15 anglers fishing the main pool, 13 of them broke the ton. The record didn’t last long though, because on […]
Match Record At Broad Acres Fishery
COMPETITION! Win Smartwater Fishing Tackle Coding Kits
Total-Fishing has teamed up with The Angling Trust and Smartwater Technology Ltd to give four lucky users the chance to win one of the excellent new Forensic Coding Systems, which are designed to give those pesky tackle thieves headaches. The packs, which cost Trust members only £9.99, including delivery, allow anglers to protect their fishing […]
2014 Norfolk School Fishing Games
Barford Lakes proudly hosted the Angling finals for the Sainsbury’s Norfolk School Games. All eight of Norfolk’s School Sports Partnerships entered two teams of three, so 48 young anglers competed in this Level 3 competition. The Summer School Games has seen around 2500 young people compete in various sports over this week. Angling successfully entered […]
Drennan Team England shake-up for the Nations
The Angling Trust are pleased to announce the England call up of Callum Dicks who will be joining the Drennan Team England squad for the FIPSed Nations World Championship in Croatia on 13th and 14th September 2014. Joining Callum is; Will Raison, Alan Scotthorne, Sean Ashby, Des Shipp and Steve Hemmingray and (Joint Managers) Mark […]
Evesham Festival 2014 Payouts
Organisers of the Evesham Festival have released details of the 2014 prize fund – and there’s still bags of cash up for grabs despite the loss of one of the event’s long-standing sponsors. Event director, Roger Mortimer announced the revised prize structure after a search for a headline sponsor for this year’s festival looked unlikely […]
2014 Canal Pairs Champs Gets Green Light
The Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust are delighted to announce the date competitors can start to apply for the Pairs Canal Championship which will be held on the Shropshire Union Canal in the Soudley area on 14th September 2014. Entry forms will be available to apply for this new event from 15th July […]
Strong Numbers For Total-Fishing.com
Angling website Total-Fishing.com has posted its second highest ever set of traffic figures, recording over 58,000 monthly unique users in the month of June 2014. Industry standard statistics from Google Analytics show that 58,605 unique visitors visited the website between May 31st and June 30th 2014 – less than 2,000 off the best ever figures […]
National Junior Championships 2014: Report
This year’s Angling Trust Cadets, Juniors and Intermediates National Championship was held at Makins Fishery, Nuneaton, Warwickshire on Saturday 28th June. The weather on the day was very unsettled for all the competitors taking part with showers set in for most of the day. Nearly 200 young anglers between the ages of 10 and 22 […]
Sharks: No Limits? No Future!
Pic: Wiki Shark Trust Patron and wildlife presenter Steve Backshall and UK Fisheries Minister George Eustice will be presenting their views on uncontrolled shark fisheries today at a series of Shark Trust No Limits? campaign events – part of SEA LIFE London Aquarium’s annual Ocean of Stars. Shark fishing is big business in Europe, with […]
Angler’s Mail July 1st
Angler’s Mail, July 1 issue Inside the latest issue of Angler’s Mail magazine – on-sale from Tuesday – you can learn all about what makes Preston Innovations Matchman of the Year champ Andy Bennett a winner on the competition circuit. He stars in an Action Replay feature and gives a master class on commercial bagging […]
Matt Maginnis Wins River Swale Riverfest
The River Swale at Morton was the venue for the second Angling Trust RiverFest 2014 qualifier on Saturday 28th June, and hopes of big weights were high after some bumper catches during the first week of the season. The river was low and crystal clear for this match but that didn’t stop Matt Maginnis from […]
Drennan England Storm Back To Win 2014 European Gold
Drennan Team England. (Top L-R) Will Raison, Simon Willsmore, Lee Kerry, Sean Ashby, Mark Downes. (Bottom L-R) Alan Scotthorne, Mark Addy, Callum Dicks. Pic: www.drennantackle.com Drennan Team England have managed to win the European Championship after a nail biting last hour on the Hensies-Pommeroeul Canal in Belgium. Twenty-four teams competed on a tough venue dominated […]
Ringstead Grange Trout Form
Ringstead has fished even better this last week due to the weed cutting and lifting and the cooler weather. Good reports on how the weed has been managed. Local Angler, Matt Skinner from Hargrave had a beauty weighing in at 6lb. Phil Wilmott from Northampton had a limit of 21/2 lb ers. Barry Hall from […]
Evesham Qualifiers June 28th/29th
Evesham Festival Qualifying Match Report. Evesham Championship Qualifier. Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 61 Fished. 1 Richie Reynolds (Maver Bait-Tech) 10-14-0 (peg 43) 2 Tom Scholey (Pole Fishing Magazine) 7-15-0 (peg 6) 3 Matt Woods 6-3-0 (peg 85) 4 Ian Sutherland 5-13-0 (peg 68) 5 Anthony Taylor 5-6-0 (peg 18) Qualifiers: Tom Scholey […]
Big Bad Thames Bream
Tony Curd got the river season off to an absolute flyer with this fantastic catch of big bream from the River Thames. Tony got to Teddington very early and fished the last bit of the non-tidal river upstream of the weir using groundbait feeder tactics for 40 slabs in just four hours, with the biggest […]
