Christopher Williams, a partner in the company Zintec Feed Supplements, Shobdon, Herefordshire has been fined a total of £10,000 as a result of a spillage of soya bean oil to Pearl Lake, Shobdon, Herefordshire. He was also ordered to pay costs of £3,500 to Environment Agency Wales who brought the prosecution at Hereford Magistrates’ Court […]

Next week (11th February) sees the start of the ever popular salmon fishing season on the River Deveron. Anglers from all over the world will visit the picturesque Banffshire Coast to fish on the river and catch their first spring salmon of the season.Salmon fishing season in Scotland starts in early February until late October […]

A new website has been launched by former world champ Dave Wesson, allowing its users to download videos of their favourite anglers directly to their PC. Fishy Films contains videos for both match/coarse and carp anglers and currently features anglers like Phil Ringer, Alex Bones and Derek Ritchie in videos ranging from 3 minutes to […]

The NFA has received great support for the OCN in Angling and the Environment from Head Teachers around the country after promoting the course at the Sports Colleges Conference held on 1st and 2nd February last week in Telford by the Youth Sports Trust.With over 1,500 Teachers and Head teachers attending the event the NFA […]

What’s in the February issue of Match Fishing?Match NewsAll the latest news from the wonderful world of match fishing.Champion Calling!  When Tamás Walter jetted into Britain to fish a match at Gold Valley, we just had to send the cameras. Read on to find out how the reigning World Champion fared on foreign soil…Match Q&AOur […]

The Central and Regional Fisheries Boards will be running a new National Education Programme nationwide consisting of a series of presentations and field trips to over 20 schools in each Fishery region. The existing Something Fishy education resource, produced by the Fisheries Boards in conjunction with Blackrock Education Centre a few years so, has been […]

Fisheries staff from the Environment Agency at Brampton are moving hundreds of coarse fish from Mildenhall to Huntingdon in the interests of conservation.  The Lark Angling Club at Mildenhall has an excess of rudd – a silvery roach-like fish with red fins.  So, the Environment Agency are coming to the rescue.  On Wednesday they will […]

Fishing tourism in Wales is to get a boost with the development of a new course to train specialist angling guides.As part of the Welsh Assembly Government successful Fishing Wales initiative, the Environment Agency and Visit Wales have joined forces with Medrwn, the tourism training programme in mid Wales, to develop a course to enable […]

The Environment Agency is restocking an Oxford lake with more than 2,300 fish.A further 2,600 fish, including chub, tench and dace, will also be put in rivers across the area, including the Thames, the Thame, the Cherwell, the Ock and the Marsworth Moat in Tring throughout the day. The fish population in Hinksey Lake was […]

An environmentally sensitive Slough stream hit by a pollution incident last October, killing 10,000 fish, was put firmly back on the road to recovery yesterday (31 January). More than 200 chub were put into the Salt Hill Stream in the town by fisheries officers from the Environment Agency.  The restocking is just the start of a […]

Superb worms delivered to your doorThe first stop for worms for fishing, Willis Worms is now taking on-line orders for dendrobaenas, without doubt the best worms for fishing in the UK and Europe, plus lobworms and redworms.. Worms are delivered by first class post and up to two days should be allowed for your order although […]

February 2007  Static StalkingTake one top English angler. Take a super-bright, horrific lure pattern.Take a clear stillwater fishery. Stock that fishery with rainbow trout that could swallow a whole chicken. And watch and wait.Howard Croston reveals the latest trick up his sleeve when faced with stalking stillwater trout; this is far from traditional fly fishing and […]

Pike anglers across the UK are up in arms over another sick video clip showing pike being mistreated is posted for the world to see on file sharing website Youtube.The clip, entitled Fishing at Carnwaife, Scotland, shows a pike being beaten to death with a stick.The Pike Anglers Club has contacted Youtube to complain and […]

The Anglers’ Conservation Association (ACA) has got off to a flyer in 2007, securing compensation of £34,500 in relation to damage to fisheries caused in three separate pollution incidents.  It is forcing disclosure in a fourth case that should lead to yet more damages being paid by polluters to angling clubs.Lymington RiverOn the Lymington River, […]