Category: Pre Mid-2011

Evesham Angling Festival

The dates for the 2007 Evesham Festival qualifiers are out with things kicking off on the very first day of the season – June 16th. There are five Wychavon qualifiers on June 16th, July 21st, and August 8th, 11th, 12th and 15th. If you want to fish the Shakespeare event, the opportunities are on June […]

ACA calls on all Anglers to Act NOW!

The Anglers’ Conservation Association (ACA) is calling for all anglers to make some noise about the Blueprint for Water, launched last week with a media launch and a parliamentary reception attended by over 50 MPs, including several ministers.   The launch was covered on the Today programme, and BBC Television news throughout the day.  As one […]

New approach to the regulation of discharges to water

New proposals to change the way that businesses, industries and organisations that discharge into rivers and coastal waters are regulated were announced today by the Environment Agency.  “Our proposals will affect the hundreds of companies, organisations and individuals that between them hold around 110,000 permits to discharge effluent into our rivers and coastal waters. We […]

Salter’s specimen roach

Reading West MP Martin Salter who is Labour’s Parliamentary Spokesman for Angling and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Angling Group has landed his first 2lb plus roach of the season. Taking advantage in the rise in water levels which usually trigger the roach to feed Martin visited the Bristol Avon near Chippenham and caught three […]

Fishery owners urged to re-think over carp stocking

PCFA (Professional Coarse Fisheries Association)The UK’s leading professional body for coarse fishery owners Fishery owners urged to re-think over carp stocking The Professional Coarse Fisheries Association is advising fishery owners to consider delaying stocking their lakes and pools with Koi Herpesvirus (KHv) vaccinated carp until the European Union grants a licence for the vaccine. The advice comes following […]

10,000 fish for South Yorkshire river

Fisheries officers from the Environment Agency will be releasing thousands of fish into the River Don to restore stocks killed by a pollution incident in July. Around 10,000 roach will be brought from the Environment Agency’s Calverton Fish Farm at Nottingham and released at locations in the Kilnhurst and Conisborough area. Restocking of the rivers will further […]

Wild Fishing With Henry

Henry Gilbey, one of television’s most energetic and enthusiastic fishing presenters is back for a brand new second series of Wild Fishing.   Armed with his robust and excitable persona, Henry leaves his comfort zone behind and heads to the remoteness of artic Norway, a thriving location for UK sea anglers.   He also travels to some […]

News from the Pike Anglers Club

  Big-hearted pikers up in Scotland are raising cash to send a terminally-ill boy and his family on holiday. The PAC’s North Lanarkshire region has stepped in to help send Jordan Hall, who has cancer at the age of just five, to Disneyland,Florida. They’re holding a fish-in on Kilchurn Bay, Loch Awe, on Sunday, December 17. It’s a tenner […]

Pro Flat Pole Roller

Pro Flat Roller Whilst we have enjoyed enormous success with tripod rollers in recent years we recognise that anglers’ personal preferences are sometimes for a flat roller. With this in mind we have designed the Pro Flat roller. Featuring rapid assembly design, this lightweight flat roller comes in its own compact padded bag for ease […]