IF you have ever landed a ton-up weight at Moorlands Farm either in an open or in a club match, then you can enter the forthcoming King of Tons match at the prolific Hartlebury venue.The September 13th event has a unique format which sees the anglers fishing three two-hour matches in the same day, with […]

THERE were so many twists and turns during the week long Daiwa-Bewdley Angling Festival that it was impossible to predict a winner even going into the last hour of the final day. Ninety competitors had slogged it out over the three days on a river which came up two feet in the week and was […]

The Whizzo Youth ClassicSaturday August 23rd 2003Risby Park Lakes (nr Beverley, East Yorks)Venue website  www.risby-park.co.ukTHIS is the first year that the Youth Classic has come up north. The event that has run for over ten years is designed to draw the cream of British youth in a teams of six event consisting of two four […]

’S Darren Cox put on a brave face after being pipped for the £25,000 Fish O Mania prize by a fish landed in the last two minutes of the match.With weigh-ins every half an hour, Darren had been in the top three throughout and was over 5lb in front going into the final half an […]

THE winners of the June 2003 Thread of the Month competitions for the Carp and Sea Discussion boards are as follows.Sea: A Dixon, for his ‘Don’t laugh’ thread. What the board is all about really. A newcomer to both the board and to shore fishing asking for advice and keeping posters in touch with his fishing, […]

DUE to unforeseen circumstances, the National Federation of Anglers ‘National Championship for Anglers with Disabilities,’ scheduled for Saturday, August 30, 2003, on Makins Phase 3 Fishery at Wolvey near Coventry, has been relocated to Border Fisheries at Crewe on Saturday, September 6, 2003.“There is a strict criterion for anglers with disabilities and unfortunately some of […]

Total Fishing Skanderborg meet 2003 – Sponsored by Matchcraft Denmark/Holland  26th July 2003 – report  THE first Total Fishing Skanderborg Lake – Denmark meet was a huge success with plenty of fish caught on this mixed weather day. The day started off with a very overcast and windy feel to it and just as the participants […]

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES…(left) Peter Manzi, the Marketing Manager of Imperial Tobacco, presents a hand-carved lead crystal trophy on a solid mahogany base to Ken Ball, the President of the National Federation of Anglers.The presentation marked the end of Imperial Tobacco’s record-breaking 34-year sponsorship of angling – the longest continuous involvement by any major sponsor […]

 JUNIOR AND YOUTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPSRIVER RAIA, Mora and Cabecao, PORTUGAL Under 20’sNFA Drennan Team ENGLAND‘S brilliant Lewis Muraski netted a silver medal and also chalked-up the best weight of the World Championships … an impressive 23.920 kg two-day total. But sadly, despite having five top class coaches on the bank, the team could only finish ninth […]

The fish counter on the River Tyne has shown that 2000 salmon entered the river during June 2003, as opposed to only 500 for the same month last year.A deal to buy-out 52 of the remaining 68 drift net fishermen off the north east coast of England came into effect on June 1st 2003. The […]

BAWTRY & District AC (pictured above) upstaged the pre-match favourites and netted the UK‘s most important Team title and £1,764 in the Embassy Division One National Championship on the Stainforth & Keadby Canal on Saturday (July 26). A total of 68 teams of 12 anglers took part in this Blue Riband competition.And a late change […]

A £9,000 project has been undertaken along a popular but recently hopeless length of the Lower River Witham at Kirkstead near Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire aiming to improve marginal habitat for coarse fish including roach, bream, tench and other species.Some 450 meters of coir roll (coconut fibre) have been successfully installed by EA Officers between existing […]

Environment Agency and English Nature scientists have completed in-depth research into a fish under threat.Allis and twaite shad can be found in seas as diverse as the Baltic and Mediterranean but their numbers are dropping.In the UK, twaite spawn in just four rivers – Severn, Wye, Usk and Tywi (Midlands and Wales) – and allis […]

  ALAN Wright completed a magnificent golden double when he used his local knowledge to devastating effect to capture the Individual title in the Embassy Division Two National Angling Championship on the River Soar and Loughborough Quorn Canal on Saturday (July 19).And Wigan‘s Shaun Birchall, the individual runner-up, also enjoyed a double celebration when his squad, […]

Chris having a go on the new casting pool.I WAS  present when Chris Tarrant dropped into House of Hardy, Alnwick, to officially open their new showcase retail centre, The “Compleat Angler”, writes Patrick Arnold.Those of us who know Chris are aware that his is a keen fly fisherman and regularly uses Hardy fishing equipment.  He […]