Whizzo Youth Classic 2003  Report by Kevin Webster, Whizzo Groundbaits (event sponsor)  Match One“Match Fishing is safe!” This was the opening line, from match co-organisor Chris Durrant, at the Whizzo Youth Classic’s presentation held at Risby Park near Hull on Saturday 23rd August.The Classic is a team of six event, fished over two, four-hour matches. Teams […]

 Left, the ladies ball it in at the start of Day One on Furzton. Right, the England team before the big event.All pictures by Steve Martin , Angling Journalist and Photographer, Tel – 01202 777892 Mob – 07812 360278, email – steve.martin1@ntlworld.comWHITE Acres NFA Team England Ladies sealed the fate of all opposition with a masterful […]

THE cold water coral reef off the north coast of Scotland, known as the Darwin Mounds, is to receive emergency protection, Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw has announced.The Darwin Mounds were discovered in 1998. They are sandy and cold water coral stacks, 1000m below the sea’s surface, about 185km northwest of Scotland. Marine life living on […]

THREE brothers who were fishing for freshwater fish using a handline have landed a total of £750 in fines and costs. In cases heard in Bridgend Magistrates’ on 19 August 2003, Dwayne and Steven Watts, both of Tenison Road , St Cradocs , Pontypool were found guilty of fishing for freshwater fish in the River […]

Drayton reservoir in Daventry, Northants, will shortly be undergoing structural repairs and will be closed from mid September until mid November. As part of ongoing maintenance work across the network, British Waterways has decided to carry out the work in the autumn so that the reservoir can collect winter rainfall effectively. Drayton reservoir was built […]

Over recent years there has been a trend for coarse fisheries to be more and more intensively stocked and managed in order to attract more anglers. There has been criticism from a number of groups concerning the environmental implications of such fisheries and the welfare of the fish in them.In its evidence to the Salmon […]

THE National Federation of Anglers Individual National Angling Championship, introduced as part of the NFA’s centenary celebrations, is to be sponsored by British Waterways. The event is being fished on the Fossdyke Canal between Lincoln and Torksey Lock on Saturday, September 20, 2003. The top two points earners in each team who competed in this […]

THE Institute of Fisheries Management is running a one-day seminar on practical ways of improving a fishery. The day will be based around practical workshops and supplemented with short presentations and supported by course notes. It is aimed at fishery managers, fishery owners or committee members, who may have responsibility for carrying out management and […]

EFTTA, the European Trade body for angling, is currently implementing a testing programme through an independently appointed laboratory to determine the accuracy of labelling in monofilament line because a number of lines available on the market have been claiming breaking strengths that are greater than actual breaking strengths. The tests have been carried out confidentially and […]

The Countryside Alliance’s Campaign for Angling has condemned as “malicious and pathetic” the attempted sabotage by animal rights activists of the eighth annual children’s angling day at Passies Ponds fishery in West Sussex. The event, organised annually by farmer and fisheries owner Trevor Passmore, in conjunction with the local council’s sports development officer and the Environment […]

WHITE ACRES/NFA Ladies Team England received a boost to their 10th Ladies World Angling Championship gold medal challenge this week when current sponsors, White Acres, announced that they intend to sponsor the world champions for at least three years. General manager of the luxury Cornish holiday park, Allister Wilson, said: “We are delighted to be […]

THE Glebe Fishery, Leicestershire, hosts the Anglers Conservation Association’s (A.C.A.) Celebrity Masters Fishing Match on Saturday, 16th August 2003.  This event features many of the top teams and individuals from the match-fishing world who come together to support what was recently described as ‘the most effective conservation body in the country’.This match is highly competitive […]

Match diary.. match diary TUNNEL Barn Farm at Shrewley plays host to a special Tek-Neek Classic on Wednesday August 27th. The 100-peg event will cover the whole of the Trabucco-backed complex and see the winner walk away with a Tek-Neek or Trabucco pole and £350 cash, with nine more cash prizes up for grabs. Entry is […]

THE ‘Northern Fish-in’ took place at Elvington Lake, near York at the weekend to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Relief and the British Disabled Angling Association .Forty anglers took part in what was to be a marathon fishing session from 8am Saturday morning until Sunday afternoon with prizes being offered for the captors of the largest […]

TF board regular Dave Benson has been heralded as a hero after he dived into the River Dart to save a three year old boy.The indicent, which made the local papers, happened at 10am on Saturday . The boy had been on the visiting yachts pontoon off Dartmouth and simply ran off the end and […]