Day Five – The Final! There was increased tension at the draw today, vital points and pounds were needed – what has the final day’s fishing of this years Maver Festival done to the leader board – read on. Bolingey A cracking day on Bolingey, Phil Ringer registered the biggest fish of the week a 20lb plus carp […]

COVENTRY’S Andy Hart has taken the biggest barbel ever taken on the Warwickshire Avon on the shape of a 16lb brute.Fishing below Stratford, Andy (31) revealed had been baiting an area heavily for five weeks before putting in some serious time on it.Andy, pictured with his new Warks Avon barbel record, baited for nearly five weeks before […]

From left to right, Fred Davis, John Logan and Steve May. THERE was a steward’s enquiry after John Logan took the second Total-FishingClub.com individual championships, held at his own Lawn Farm Fishery in Cambs! John, aka Jocko on the popular website, allowed members to fish Willow Lake, a 40-peg venue normally reserved for pleasure anglers. And […]

THIS month we have a special prize in the shape of two free Gold memberships of the Total-FishingClub.The exclusive online club is now 18 months old and the club site holds an unrivalled selection of over 500 match, sea, game, carp and specialist articles from some of the top anglers in their fields in the […]

THIS month we’ve teamed up with top lure fishing online story harris-sportsmail.com to offer one TF user the chance to win two of the rods pictured left.The Masterline Masterstik 6ft Boat Rod is a superb rod with an action that rivals rods twice the price. They have progressive power from tip to butt. Features include: 30 lb […]

Three government ministers underlined their support for shooting and fishing at the Labour Party conference in Brighton this week.  Ministers from Defra, the Home Office, the Department of Culture Media and Sport spoke at the event hosted by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), The Country Land and Business Association (CLA), the Fisheries […]

The Environment Agency continues to prosecute illegal anglers Nearly 300 illegal anglers were prosecuted by the Environment Agency for rod fishing licence offences in June 2005. The total number of successful prosecutions for the month totalled 276. Fines totalled £18,470 with costs of £17,683 awarded to the Environment Agency, making the average cost of an […]

Business for sale: Tight Line Services, LincolnDue to retirement an excellent and rare opportunity has arisen to purchase a going concern within the tackle trade. Tight Line Services of Lincoln has offered reel repair and service and acted as a spares centre to the public and trade for over 18 years, and has an established […]

ANGLERS are enjoying some welcome barbel sport on the River Nene around Peterborough.Despite being stocked on a few occasions by the Environment Agency, the hard-fighting species has always struggled to establish itself on the river in the east of the Midland Angler region.However, fish are a starting to come through with anglers reporting whiskers from […]

CONFUSION reigns over Gary Thorpe’s claim on a new world five-hour match record after the National Federation of Anglers stated it had ‘no opinion’ on the historic achievement.Gary weighed in an incredible 490-8-0 in a five-hour event at Oxfordshire’s Rolf’s Lake, obliterating Dutch master Bert Van Gerven’s widely recognised five-hour best of 419-8-0 of bream, […]

BRITISH Waterways won’t be changing its rules on the number of keepnets needed to fish matches on its prolific bagging waters, following Dave Parvin’s 539lb carp haul from Boddington Reservoir.BW’s John Ellis told Southern Angler that he sees no reason to make compulsory changes to its match regulations and says that Dave’s massive six-hour catch […]

 In October’s issue we report on the new Lea Valley Action Plan that plans to get anglers back on the bank and the Carp Society’s plans to make Horseshoe Lake a carp fishing Centre of Excellence.Also in the feature packed issue, priced only £1.99 Sitting On The dock Of The … Bream!Browning’s Dave Vincent visits London’s […]

Britain’s sea anglers today put down buoys marking where their million strong community want government action to “put an end to the historic disregard for their legitimate needs” and ensure continued growth of the nation’s £1 billion sportfishing industry. They want a new body to manage marine resources up to 12 miles from the English and […]

A new group seeking to boost the development of sportfishing around the British coast has been formed by sea anglers to stop the killing of two common species of sharks, tope and smoothound.  This will effectively reserve these fish for sea anglers and follows another plan also aiming to increase sportfishing by managing stocks of […]

In October’s issue we’ve got full reports on the Evesham Festival and the Midland Matchman of the Year final Also in October’s feature packed issue, out now priced just £1.99 Charlie’s date with a £5,000 barbelFull report on how match veteran Charlie Hague claimed the Shakespeare Championship The Avon’s CallingMatt Maginnis tackles the BAA stretch at Twyning with […]