ENGLAND won gold at the 2003 SALC Home Boat International Championship held at Weymouth, with Scotland taking silver, Ireland taking the bronze position and wales in fourth place.  The England Team Manager, Neil Bryant, was delighted with the result, and praised his team, which comprised Steve Clements, Paul Hart, Glen Milligan, Colin Searles, Jim Whippy […]

TACKLE firm Shimano has stepped in to resurrect the popular Tuesday evening Twyford Summer League on the Warwickshire Avon.Formerly a float-only event, the new rules format means that swimfeeder and any legal methods are now allowed and there are no bait bans. Organiser Stuart Gottfried is hopeful that this new initiative will encourage many anglers back […]

The European Anglers Alliance (EAA) has discussed the continuing decline of the European eel in European waters and has taken a draft resolution which is being conveyed to European authorities.Many factors contribute to this decline but there are solutions for the long-term survival of the eel.During its last general assembly, in Leipzig in April, The […]

WHITE Acres Country Park in Cornwall is planning a new festival for 2004 and it’s just for the ladies.With an anticipated £1500 top prize the match is open to any female anglers and is planned for early July next year, subject to confirmation of dates.This comes on the back of White Acres sponsorship for the […]

 SEA anglers have a new chairman. Ted Tuckerman was elected to the top job at the National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA) by its standing committee after the annual meeting on May 10th. He replaces Michael North JP who has retired.Mr. Tuckerman arrives to lead the federation as it is strengthening its efforts to influence […]

THE British Record rod-caught Fish Committee meets as and when necessary, the most recent occasion being in London. In attendance were representatives of the National Federation of Anglers, Salmon and Trout Association, Specialist Anglers Alliance and the National Federation of Sea Anglers. The meeting was chaired by Mr Colin Scull.At the meeting a new procedure […]

A WEEK after falling to Andy Childs at 60lb, the big Bluebell Lakes common carp has been caught again. This time the lucky angler was Mark Brisley from Peterborough in Cambs, who caught the mighty carp from Kingfisher Lake at a weight of 59lb.The 40-year-old fished an 18mm Mainline Activ-Maple-8 frozen ready made boilie at […]

The Salmon & Trout Association was established in 1903 to represent the interests of game fisheries throughout the British Isles and celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The calendar of events to mark this auspicious occasion includes a special Centenary Conference on “Game Fisheries Management in the British Isles 1903-2003: Past, Present & Future’ at […]

A rebuttal to the paper: “Do fish have nociceptors: Evidence for the evolution of a vertebrate sensory system” published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 2003 by Sneddon, Braithwaite and Gentle.By Professor James D. RoseThe paper by Sneddon et al is deeply flawed and does not provide any legitimate evidence that trout are capable of […]

HAYLING Angler, one of our intrepid sea angling correspondents, reports some amazing boat fishing.On a trip aboard Dave Adams ‘Torbay Belle’ it was estimated that some 80 black bream in total were landed in a fabulous day’s boat angling. ”Three fish over the specimen weight of 3lb were landed on the day,” he told total-fishing. […]

AN ESSEX angling trio has reeled a prestigious big game fishing championship in the Caribbean after bagging some huge marlin to over 350lb. Alan Pritchard, 44, of Canvey Island, John McEvilley, 38, Terry Hamlyn, 30, both from South Benfleet, beat off 78 other competitors to take the three-day IGFA International Game Fishing Association Offshore Championship […]

THE green light has been given to plans to run a new 560-peg Individual National, with the first the one taking place in the Midlands this September.To celebrate its centenary year, the sport’s governing body, the National Federation of Anglers, will invite the top two anglers from each team competing in this year’s five Nationals […]

WOODLAND View fishery owner Mike Mason has scotched rumours that he’s had a major fish kill at his Droitwich water.Rumours have been spreading around the Midlands that he’s lost ‘skip loads’ of carp and that the water is closed, but Mike says they are simply not true.“We have lost a few fish but that is […]

TACKLE giant Daiwa has stepped in to back the Bewdley match length on the River Severn (see this month’s Midland Angler) and that plus a new look to the opens should help ensure some strong turnouts throughout the summer.A new pools structure will see prizes paid out every five pegs, giving more anglers a chance […]