EVESHAM and District AA has released its dates for the Wychavon Championship qualifiers, which takes place on Sunday August 29th. Things kick off on the Warks Avon on the very first day of the season, Wednesday June 16th, and the other dates for the diary are July 24th, August 11th, August 14th and August 18th. […]

MAVER Larford Lakes is joining the summer festival scene with a five-day August event which will see the winner pocket at least £1000.Anglers will alternate between the Stourport venue’s Specimen Lake and the Match Lake with a practise day on Monday August 2nd followed by four days of competition from Tuesday to Friday.Entry is £35 […]

A Kent-based company has taken a leaf out of Victor Kiam’s book – they liked a competition so much they’re sponsoring it.GB Baits, from Ashford, has entered a team in the World Carp Classic regularly – even winning in 2000 – and this year the company has decided to sponsor part of the event.The lake […]

THE two-day, all-expenses paid, Build Center/NFA Team Knockout Grand Final fished at the fabulous White Acres fishery complex in Cornwall, was always going to be a bruising affair with six of the country’s finest teams of five clashing in the showpiece knockout event of the year; but no one could have written a more dramatic […]

From left to right: Mick Davies, Kieron Rich and Steve Slayter. 2004 Total-Fishing.com/ACA Challenge, The Glebe, Leics (90 pegs)MOSELLA’s Kieran Rich took this two-day event organised through the top match angling website www.total-fishing.com, which raised a fantastic £2200 for the ACA. However, for such a big weight event it was a very close run thing, Kieran […]

THE ten luck winners of a year’s subscription to Irish Angler are are listed below. The winners will be hearing from competition sponsors DHP Ltd within a week. John ParsonsBrian McCarthyJohn WoodShane CrossAlan ClilverdEric BestBen CooneyEugene WeetmanSean NallyMark Loughran Anyone wishing to subscribe to Irish Angler can take advantage of a special offer and bag a fly line worth […]

THE two lucky winners of our Maver luggage competition, who both correctly answered that Andy May, Paul Hughes and Paul Boothby are among the Maver consultants, were: Andy CroftDarren Wilson Both win themselves a new set of Maver Royale match luggage. Many thanks to Maver UK for its generous sponsorship.

AT long last, the National Federation of Anglers (NFA) has landed a dream headquarters office at the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham – the home of several important governing bodies.  “When Conference elected me, I promised the delegates at Wakefield, that I would make radical changes to propel the NFA back to […]

ROD Hutchinson has become the new title sponsor of the World Carp Classic.The premier name in carp tackle has joined forces with the premier carp event to create the perfect team.Now moving into its sixth year, the World Carp Classic brings together carp anglers from all across the world to compete for a £10,000 first […]

AN outstanding girl angler, 17-year-old Corina Smith, trained under Durham PC Mick Watson’s award-winning “Get Hooked on Fishing” scheme, will be among the demonstrators at this year’s Chatsworth Angling Fair  –  joining such big names as TV star John Wilson, four-times world match champion Bob Nudd, and carp legend Chris Ball.She and three other teenagers […]

 reports IF you were one of the anglers who fished the weekend’s Intersite match on a very below par Kennet and Avon Canal, you would have been forgiven for thinking I had organised a canal boat regatta, such were the numbers of boats that passed through the Caen Hill Lock system in the first two hours of […]

PHIL Ringer emerged from the shadow of his brother Steve’s recent Cornish festival success to notch up a victory of his own with a four match maximum 36 points haul in the Keenets backed 180-entry White Acres Spring festival on the Cornish holiday park’s lakes, Bolingey and Porth reservoir.In fact in form Phil even recorded […]

Latest issueCatch The Lunker Of A LifetimeTSF’s Welsh wonder Terry Thomas recounts exactly how he managed a personal-best, 18lb cod from the shore recently.Reliable RigsIt’s time for a bit of ‘rough’ this month, with the rough ground rotten bottom rig.Testing TimesBarney Wright roars into the new Cono-Flex Lionheart to see why it’s the ‘mane’ attraction.More […]

A LARGE painting by Bernard Venables, author and artist of the famous newspaper cartoon strip on river fishing – ‘Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing’ – is up for sale in Bonhams Fishing Sale in Honiton on May 14.The sale includes a wide variety of collectable and modern usable fishing tackle, to include rods, reels and accessories […]

The Deep Sea Directory claims its ‘Space Finder’ service is proving a boon for anglers looking for slots on charter boats“Over the years we’ve noticed a positive increase in anglers using the Internet when looking for and booking charters”, stated Deep Sea Directory Manager, Chris Caines.  “As a result, we have always striven on www.deepsea.co.uk […]