Action from the match Lake and right, the prizes being fished for, including some lovely Total-Fishing hats and polo shirts. THIS firmly established match was a tremendous success for the sponsor Norman Booth, of Normans of Woodley, the Stockport-based fishing tackle dealer. The main objective of the event is to raise money for local based charities […]

THIS month we have teamed up with online tackle shop Floats-Direct.com for the chance to win one of two new Maver Italica match rods, a tool that offers exceptional value for money at under £60. The rod has a pleasing action which makes is lovely for small fish, but it still retains the backbone when […]

A meeting of the NASCO group (North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation), on 6th June 2003 raised numerous points concerning the protection of salmon. According to the group, regulation of seals in Scotland is becoming urgent and the same is true in Canada. It is estimated that the seal population now exceeds 10 million individuals. The […]

Midland Angler Club Champion of ChampionsPreston Innovations Woodland View, Deans, Arles, High and Barley (130 anglers) l-R: Gareth Purnell (MA), Derek Hopkins, Eliot Johnson, John Taylor (PI) and Dean Lockett. THIS was the second running of this match which puts club champions head to head and it attracted a record turnout.Backed by Preston Innovations, it was fished in […]

THE organiser of the resurrected Thames Championships says he expects a sell-out field for the big team event. The historic match is back on this year after a break of five years thanks to the efforts of Peter Turner of Turner’s Tackle and Bait, Oxford.The big day is Sunday, September 21st, when the water is […]

TRAGEDY struck on the River Severn at Bewdley when Dave Harrell’s first big weekend open had to be cancelled because one of the competitors had a heart attack on the way to his peg. The air ambulance service was there within minutes, but sadly Ashton Brothers AC treasurer Alan Reeves, who was in his mid […]

The National Federation of Anglers’ Team Selectors are pleased to announce that the 10-man squad of casters that will go to the CIPS World Championships in Grosseto, Italy, from 10th to 14th September is as follows:Mr Mike Birks, PaigntonMr Rob Caley, Thetford, NorfolkMr Garry Dickerson, Wimbourne, DorsetMr John Hodgson, Weymouth, DorsetMr Tony Jones, Chippenham (New […]

SHAKESPEARE fell agonisingly short of a medal in the World Club Championships on Bulgaria’s brilliant Plovdiv Canal, missing our on bronze by just two points in sweltering conditions.Six anglers from the crack Midlands outfit were able to represent their country after winning the Embassy Division One National in 2002, and skipper Jeff Perrin chose Steve […]

Above: The ace Total Fishing team. Class will always out.IN a result regarded by the doyens of the media as so predictable they decided to report the Wimbledon exit of Lleyton Hewitt instead, the cream rose to the top in the Midlands heat of the intersite challenge, and Total Fishing showed various wannabe websites what […]

WEST Yorkshire aces Slaithwaite & District AC were full of praise for Warrington‘s Steve Conroy as they celebrated a magnificent victory in the Team event at the Embassy Division Four National Angling Championship on the Bridgewater Canal at Warrington on Saturday (June 21).And there was double glory for West Yorkshire as Mike Sharpe, a 46-year-old […]

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WOODLAND View owner Mike Mason (pictured) has promised great catches in next weekend’s club Champion of Champions final, despite SVC being confirmed at his Hagley water.Tests by the Environment Agency confirmed that some of the 400 or so fish that have died at the popular venue were carrying a mild case of SVC. However, Mike insists […]

 IN a unique bid to raise money for cancer research, fly fishing mad angler, Philip Clarke of Brighton has set a new record by catching a trout in Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales in 17 hours. The record attempt comprised eight hours of fishing, seven hours on the bike and two hours on the […]

THE Environment Agency has introduced new rules to protect declining salmon stocks in south Cumbria.New byelaws mean netting on the Leven Estuary is now banned during June, with the netting season reduced to July and August only.Also, a ‘catch and release’ byelaw means rod-caught salmon in the Leven and Crake catchment, upstream of the Leven […]