HERE’S an exclusive treat for users of the Total Fishing shop. The next 10 orders we receive for over £30 (before P&P) from the total-fishing online shop will get a FREE double sided Milo double sided magnetic hook box which carries an RRP £12.99.  All you need to do to visit the shop is click the red […]

Report by Clint Elliot and Ian Chambers Martin Williams first ever festival leads to victory…  Martin Williams (Northern Gen) from Sheffield won his first ever festival against 71 other anglers competing in the new DAIWA Match Winner Virgins Festival.  Martin a Transport Administrator for Fletchers Bakeries walks away with £1000.00 in cash and the Daiwa Match […]

THE Environment Agency is warning Trout fisheries in Sussex that they could face fines of up to £2,500 if they are found to be stocking illegal trout.Agency Officers are investigating Trout introductions at fisheries across Sussex and will be taking enforcement action where fish stocking has taken place without the prior written consent of the […]

THE CHAMPIONS…the Starlets AS quartet of (left-to-right) Pat Kavanagh, Claire Dagnall, Julie Abbott and Helen Dagnall celebrate after their superb victory in the Team event at the Embassy Ladies National Angling Championship at Woodland View near Droitwich. HATS off to West Midlands side starlets AS, who took the gold in the Ladies National at Woodland View […]

 DEFRA and the Welsh Assembly Government today published a consultation paper onproposed new designations under the Freshwater Fish Directive.The Directive seeks to protect freshwater bodies suitable for sustaining fish populations by setting physical and chemical water quality objectives for designated waters.  At the end of last year the European Commission issued an Article 226 ReasonedOpinion […]

KIDDERMINSTER and District Angling Association are pleased to announce a sponsorship link with tackle giants Daiwa for the forthcoming river season. The link has come about after much hard work by Dave Harrell and Matt Maginnis to transform the Bewdley match length into a stretch which can now host competitions for up to one hundred […]

THE five Embassy/NFA National Championships will prove more lucrative then ever this year for the top two points performers in each team, plus the section winners from the Ladies and Veterans events.  The NFA has decided to bring back the Individual National Championship for its centenary year.  Competitions officer Mick Turner commented: “We have discussed […]

 LOADS of you are buying pole floats from the site, especially those from Preston Innovations and Drennan, Tubertini hooks are also selling well, so those coarse anglers out there are clearly preparing for some serious bagging work.  There are loads of great tackle items in the shop for coarse, sea, carp, specialist and fly anglers, […]

TWO thousand farmed brown trout and twenty thousand fry have been released into upland and lowland streams by scientists from The Game Conservancy Trust in order to investigate whether the many thousands of farmed fish released into our rivers each year might be having an impact on the wild population. The project has been prompted […]

MARK Sawyer of Van den Eynde is breaking with tradition this month and selecting Geepster as the ‘thread of the month’ winner on the Coarse board (boos, hiss, shock, horror) for his work on the Glebe charity match and all that led up to it. As this isn’t allowed, not least because they will both […]

WE’RE delighted to report that the Littlehampton heat of the Penn-sponsored Boat Fishing Masters competition was won by our very own Adrian Farley (aka HA and Lexoos Lover). Adrian caught bream to 2lb 8oz plus wrasse, garfish, mackerel, poor cod, pout and a blenny. The species competition had a complicated scoring system of certain numbers of points […]

NEW research suggests that populations of mighty oceanic fish such as marlin, cod and shark have crashed by 80 per cent in the last 20 years.The Canadian scientists involved believe that industrial commercial over-fishing is the clear cause, and that there is still little or no management of stocks or consideration of the future.These are […]

Total Sea Fishing Folkestone trip:  Zonnkers reports We picked the right day to fish off of Folkestone, as can be seen from the photos.  The crew were in order (left to right photo left) zonnkers, crab, squiddly, breakwater, Jan ,Phil and phish and the boat was Pathfinder skippered by Eric Hartley, We didn’t  go plaice fishing as planned […]

Total-fishing.com/ACA challenge 2003Winner Steve Martin: “It’s my biggest ever match weight and my biggest ever win.” Overall result1 S Martin, Uglies, 145-3-02 M Wild, Pool One (A), 115-11-03 R Elston, Pool Five, 114-1-04 P Kania, Pool Four, 87-0-05 Dave Walsh, Pool One (C), 68-7-06 R Liversage, Pool Seven, 66-15-07 N Merry, Pool Six, 47-0-08 L Murawski, […]

THE Midlands Environment Agency has issued fisheries, angling clubs and anglers with advice on how to minimise the risk of spreading Spring Viraemia of Carp (SVC), following the announcement by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) that the disease has been detected at the Woodland View Fishery and Woodland View Fish Farm, Hay […]