Total Carp November 2006Due Out: 27th OctoberPrice: £3.25 EditorialDo you sack fish at night? The editor reckons that you shouldn’t and here’s why. Carp SceneSend in your catch pics and win a prize. It’s as simple as that, so get on with it! Junior Carp SceneJunior catch pics and more prizes. It’s just like Carp Scene, but this […]

The hot news of the week is that the clubs Zander record has been smashed by an outstanding fish of 15lb 7oz form the South Lagoon. he fish was taken during the early hours by nineteen year old lady angler Dawn Hatchlet, it was witnessed by bailiff Danny Kelley who attended the official weighing at around 3.00am, […]

Sewage ran from an Anglian Water manhole, through a dry reservoir used for flood water, into a low level drain and ended up in a lake at Dallington Lawn Tennis Club in Northampton. Despite being aware of the overflow, the water company did not investigate where the sewage had run to and a clean-up was not […]

Do you want to play an active role in your local community?Would you like to help improve the environment where you live? Whatever your views and interests there could be an important role for you!  The Environment Agency is looking for people from all backgrounds and walks of life to join their Regional Advisory Committees throughout […]

The National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA) is to streamline its management and decision-making process by becoming a limited company. Subject to legal consents it will become the National Federation of Sea Anglers Limited from January 1 next, with a board of up to ten directors as the executive body.  The standing committee will continue to […]

Environment Agency fisheries and operations delivery officers have been piling on the stones as part of a project to improve the Bray Mill Stream, near Maidenhead.Mechanical diggers were called in to pour 600 tonnes of small stones and gravel over a 300-metre stretch of the stream creating the perfect breeding ground for fish as well […]

The Environment Agency has launched a full investigation after more than 100 trout were killed in a small tributary of the West Looe River, near Liskeard.  On Monday morning (October 16, 2006) several members of the public reported the stream had become discoloured and had a foul smell.  An Environment Agency officer attended the site […]

The NFA in partnership with the Barbel Society, SAA and other members of the Fish Welfare Group have worked together to produce a new Barbel Handling Guide.  This guide has been produced to help raise anglers’ awareness of the need to handle barbel carefully & return them as safely as possible. Anglers can download a […]

A new national wildlife crime squad should make the removal of fish from Britain‘s waterways one of its top priorities. That’s the message from the Pike Anglers Club, whose members fear pike and other coarse fish being taken in numbers for food. Diversity Minister Barry Gardner is set to launch the National Wildlife Crime Unit at a […]

  The Environment Agency will make a new addition to its fight against fish crime next week, when the ‘Shearwater’ enforcement boat is officially named by Sir John Harman, chairman of the Environment Agency. The new enforcement boat will operate up to six miles offshore between Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Humber, and will also cover all tidal rivers […]

Midlands pike anglers are ‘shocked and dismayed’ at Bob Nudd’s call for a pike cull on the Warwickshire Avon.Writing in the News of the World on Sunday, the former World Champion matchman said:“There are too many pike in our rivers and they need culling. On my last visit to the Warwickshire Avon, the moment I […]

Words and pics: Steve Martin Neil Machin has achieved an unbelievable double by adding the 2006 £25,000 Parkdean Masters title to the Fish’O’Mania crown that also saw him win the winner takes all prize of £25,000 at Hayfield Fishery in July this year.Stoke-on-Trent-based Neil, who has been on a high since his first big money success, […]

HOT News from the IGFAOctober 2006By Pete Johnson, Johnson Communications – IGFA PR Counsel The IGFA has added two new special features to its web site.  One is called “Kid’s Catches,” a photo page just for young anglers who want to share their fishing pictures and stories with the rest of the Junior Anglers around the […]

The final of the Disabled-angler.co.uk Championship Charity Opens was held at Holly Farm, Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, on September 30th 2006. Forty anglers were invited to fish this final from a series of five matches which stretched the country from North at Lindholme Lakes to Monks Lakes in Maidstone in the South with three others Castle Ashby […]