THE help of the public is being sought by the Environment Agency which is investigating an oil spill in Braintree in the early hours of Sunday morning.Diesel fuel polluted two kilometres of the River Blackwater and Agency officers have had to put booms in the water to contain and absorb as much oil as possible. 40-50 […]

Official Anglers Say Response:Angler’s say has come under several attacks since its launch late Novemberthis year. All have been unsuccessful.The situation that came about today was not due to a security issue atAnglers Say side but an attack on our hosts servers, a roaming hackersscript which randomly seeks root level access to Linux servers, then […]

THIS is just a quick update on the progress of the new Total-Fishing Club site, which we were hoping to go live with in the New Year. As is the way with these things, there have been delays caused partly by ‘coding issues’ and partly by the main web man, Neptune, falling ill to a […]

RADIO and TV angling pundit and Total-Fishing regular Keith Arthur will be making the live draw for the Anglers Say Shimano reel competition on his Talk Sport Fisherman’s Blues programme on Sunday 21 December.For those who don’t listen in to Talk Sport, it can be found at 1052 & 1089 am and Fisherman’s Blues is on early […]

MORE than 1230 anglers entered the brand new Builder Center/NFA Team Knockout Competition and just 39 teams have survived to compete in the semi-finals on Saturday, April 3, 2004. “There has been some spills, hiccups and tears along the way, but no-one can deny that team knockout competitions create a great atmosphere and bonding amongst […]

CORMORANTS are an outstanding success story.  At a point of such critical decline in the 70s that they were placed on the protected species list, there is now a winter population of over 23,000 in the UK alone – and that’s the problem.Their food is fish – including endangered species such as salmon, bullheads, lampreys […]

MORE good specimen fish were caught by Bailiwick of Guernsey anglers in November.The West Coast Sea Angling Club held the third and last leg in their annual Specimen Fish Hunt Competition, which is a shore based event.Each leg lasts for a whole weekend, running from Friday at 6.00pm through to Sunday at 10.00pm.The third competition produced […]

THE Environment Agency, in partnership with local angling organisations, is releasing 2,000 barbel into the River Stour on Wednesday (17 Dec), half way through its five-year programme to restock the river.This is the third year of the programme to bring back to the waters of the River Stour a sustainable barbel population.. Numbers had reached a […]

SALMON have been spotted trying to scale Sprotbrough Falls on the River Don near Doncaster for the first time in nearly two hundred years. A local angler contacted the Environment Agency to congratulate their fisheries staff on the efforts they have made to improve fisheries stocks on the Don. Staff from the local team were delighted […]

COARSE fish numbers on the River Dee received a boost on 11 December 2003 with the ntroduction of an additional 12,000 one-year-old fish. They will be introduced at Farndon , Almere Ferry and Eccleston Ferry. Environment Agency Wales will be using extra funds generated from increased rod licence sales to fund the operation. The fish comprise some 6,250 […]

CHRISTMAS has come early this year for Lancashire anglers. Around 130,000 roach, dace and chub have been released into the rivers Alt, Lune, Douglas, Ribble, Darwen and Wyre as part of the EA’s fish stocking programme.The stocking is being carried out to improve and maintain healthy fish populations in Lancashire’s rivers. The fish, bred at the […]

WORK has been completed on a new quarter of a million pound fish pass on the Western Cleddau at Haverfordwest. Town Weir Fish Pass, incorporating the latest in fish pass technology, will improve access for all species of migratory fish including salmon and sea trout, eels and also the rare and endangered sea lamprey.The previous fish […]

THE Environment Agency has found an unexpected environmental hero in the sea trout.Small numbers of the determined fish have swum against the odds to migrate upstream to their spawning grounds at the headwater of the River Rother in Kent.The fish need high river flows to allow them to complete their ‘run’, which usually happens during […]

SEA anglers whose activities now contribute £1 billion a year to Britain’s coastal economies need to have a say in Government decisions on managing fish stocks, parliament was told this week. During the annual fisheries debate, Bob Blizzard the Labour MP for Lowestoft, said that politicians should “give some thought to how we manage the […]

EIGHT fishermen were fined for fishing without a rod licence in cases heard at Bridgend Magistrate’s Court on  25 November 2003. They were all seen fishing at Hazel Court Lakes near Bridgend on 18 May 2003, contrary to section 27(a) of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975. They were fined a total of £625 and […]