TEN Sheffield boys and girls, aged 12 to 14, have won an all-expenses-paid visit to the annual Chatsworth Angling Fair – to be held over the weekend of May 17 and 18 on the world-famed Chatsworth estate near Bakewell, Derbyshire. Their trip is sponsored by the Chatsworth Bursary, an award provided by the Duke and […]

Welsh Federation of Sea Anglers Boat Team Manager Robbie Roberts and squad member Gethyn Owen met recently with the owners of Home & Leisure to discuss a possible sponsorship deal for the WFSA National Boat Team. Following a highly successful meeting, Home & Leisure have offered to sponsor our National Team with a variety of clothing […]

TO celebrate the launch of Today’s Flyfisher – the new magazine from the David Hall Publishing stable –  we’ve teamed up with Orvis to offer one lucky person (and an even luckier friend) two day’s guided fishing on the rivers Test and Itchen.The Test and the Itchen are classic English chalk streams. The springs provide […]

KIERON Rich (pictured above with his final day’s catch) added a second festival win to his portfolio when he headlined the 180-angler White Acres Keenets Spring event with a 36-point clean sweep collecting the £2000 winners cheque and a voucher for a £1899 pole from the sponsors.Mosella and Tricast backed Kieron from Dudley, West Midlands posted […]

THE International Angling Confederation (La Confédération Internationale de la Pêche Sportive – CIPS) which groups the four International Angling Federations composed of 110 National Federations from 54 countries and which represents a minimum of 60 000 000 members, unanimously adopted, during its Congress held in Locarno from 10th to 13th April 2003, the Angler’s Charter […]

THE Countryside Alliance has called for more research, rather than emotional debate, in response to a report by a team of scientists from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh suggesting that fish do feel pain. Charles Jardine, Director of the Countryside Alliance’s Campaign for Angling, called for the debate to move on: “Previous […]

THE great honour of being the first winner of our Van den Eynde/Total-Fishing ‘Thread of the Month’ competition goes to one of the Coarse Forum’s stalwarts, who you will all know as ‘Aberdeen Angus’.AA is a lucky man, because he wins himself a whole case of Van den Eynde Ringer’s Bag-Up carp mix, a lovely, […]

CONTROVERSIAL research led by Dr Lynne Sneddon of Edinburgh University on whether or not fish can feel pain will not alter the Government’s enthusiastic support for angling as a sport and pastime claimed Labour MP Martin Salter who is Parliamentary adviser to Sports Minister Richard Caborn.Mr Salter said: “The conclusions of the Edinburgh University research […]

National Angling Alliance Press Statement A TEAM of scientists from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh are claiming that as a consequence of their recent research, they have demonstrated that fish can perceive pain. This follows work performed on live rainbow trout in which the fish were injected with poisons, after which their physiology […]

ENGLAND have taken the World Under 21 Angling Championships at Bridlington, with Ireland taking the bronze and England also taking the individual gold in the shape of Daniel Mogridge.The Championship plus the Under 16s event which was won by Croatia took place over five days last week and were supported by East Riding of Yorkshire […]

PRESS RELEASE THE auction of a remarkable private collection of fine antiques – which includes some rare and unusual fishing items – accumulated by the late Cotswold entrepreneur, John Parry, is attracting significant interest from collectors and dealers from around the world.From the success of his business ventures, throughout his life John Parry built up this […]

From left to right: Tunnel Barn’s Mike Hamlington, fourth-placed Dave Ryan, Cudmore’s Cyril Brewster, 2003 UK Premier League Champion Darren Mulhair, second-placed Pete Caton and third-placed John Glover jnr. BROWNING Cudmore Fishery walked off with the inaugural UK Premier Angling League trophy, thanks to the efforts of team man Darren Mulhair, who topped the field of […]

STOP PRESS….  BLUEBELL Lake’s famous big common carp has been banked at a new venue record of 60lb, Total-Fishing can reveal.Britain’s biggest common carp, known as Benson, fell to the rod of St Neots, Cambs angler Andy Childs, who smashed his personal best by a massive 42lb in the process.The Kingfisher Lake fish took a single […]

A SMALL north-east company that grows sea worms is celebrating its success after winning not one, but two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in this year’s honours.Based at Lynemouth, on the Alcan Power Station site, near Ashington, Seabait Limited operates the World’s first temperate, marine worm farm, utilising waste heat-energy from a nearby power station in order […]

International auctioneers, Bonhams is to offer a selection of early carvedand cased fish, rods, reels, and flies in an Angling Sale on Friday, 16 May2003.  The sale, which will take place at Bonhams in Honiton, comprises morethan 300 lots, most significant of which is a worthy catch of carved woodenfish that date from the late […]