AN angler has been fined £100 for using groundbait and maggots at his local fishery. Darren Young of Wood Cottage, South Road, Sully, Vale of Glamorgan was fined £50 for using groundbait in the River Ogmore at Merthyr Mawr on 14 July 2002 a further £50 for using a line baited with maggots. Unfortunately for […]

AN ANGLING club has been awarded a £10,000 grant to improve facilities at a nature reserve.Brickfields Pond Angling Club in Rhyl, Wales has been granted what’s known as Objective One funding from Denbighshire’s Unique Natural Environment (DUNE) scheme.The club, in partnership with Denbighshire Countryside Service, will use the money to create lily beds, introduce marginal […]

LEICESTER’S Fred Wagstaffe committed suicide at the weekend after a long fight with depression. Fred will be best remembered for his Footloose With Fred series in Angling Times in the 1960’s, when readers followed his travels down rivers like the Thames and Delph in the Angling Times boat. He was a pioneer of carp fishing […]

Top hook manufacturer Mustad is introducing a new range of hooks, in the shape of a Signature circle pattern called the C51SBLN.The Norwegian-based firm believe that both professional and beginners alike will benefit dramatically from increased catches thanks to the new product.This latest pattern is a standard wire version of the Extra Heavy (C71S SS) […]

IF you are impressed with the £25,000 first prize on offer in our Fish O Mania final, maybe you need broader horizons. For bass anglers in the States are currently polishing their lures in readiness for a match where the winner will take home a cool $100,000.The Citgo BASSMATER Tour event takes place this weekend […]

THE Tynemouth Open attracted the best field of the weekend with 438 anglers all hoping for the tasty £1000 first prize.The rover was fished from Plantation to Tynemouth Pier, and 87 of the competitors weighed in a total of 197 fish for a level 325lb. Winner was Birtley’s Andrew Harper, who tempted three cod and two […]

A SHORE angler has rocked the British record for a common skate, with a huge 167lb 8oz fish caught on the west coast of the island of Skye.Alaistair Bews, of Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancs, was fishing for conger when the big skate took a large mackerel bait mounted on a 6/0 hook. He used a Penn Progression bass […]

A BLIND cod, saved by a Norwegian fisherman after having been caught in nets and estimated forty times, is clinging to life after surviving a medical operation.The fisherman sent the cod to a marine park rather than throw it back into the water yet again, but it had to undergo an emergency operation to release gases […]

ESSEX fish dealer Mark Dallas of Premier Fish Supplies, Battlesbridge and Lee Coles of Chelmsford  face Crown Court after pleading guilty to charges of illegally importing live fish through the Channel Tunnel and failing to notify the authorities of the intended importation. Magistrates at Folkestone heard how 1.8 tonnes of diseased live fish were smuggled […]

COARSE angling’s governing body, the National Federation of Anglers, has teamed up with the Environment Agency in a unique initiative which will give many thousands of young people the chance to try angling for the first time. NFA officials have already contacted over three thousand National Association of Clubs for Young People, issuing an open […]

HUNDREDS or young people from around world are expected to join British actor Tom Felton in search of the biggest carp in America’s St Lawrence River and a whopping $10,000 top prize.The first ever St Lawrence International Junior Carp Tournament will take place hand in had with a new ‘I Love NY Carp Fishing School’ […]

PIKE & Predators, the only monthly newsstand magazine for the pike and freshwater predator angler in the UK, is set to announce a major new big fish competition in the next issue. Fox Tackle, who will provide prizes on a monthly basis for what the judges feel are the most worthy captures of a predator, […]

The Environment Agency is sending more than 600,000 letters to anglers urging them to buy their 2003/04 rod licence by Direct Debit.Letters will start arriving from today (Monday) and anglers have until the February 4 to return the completed mandates. In 2001/2 a pilot Direct Debit project was launched in the Agency’s Anglian and Midlands […]

 EX charter skipper Tony Way thinks this tremendous 43lb 0oz 8dr cod taken from a mark of Poole Bay is the biggest from anywhere around the UK for at least two years. The 63-year-old Parkstone, Dorset angler tempted the port record fish during a trip aboard ‘True Blue’ with Pennell rigged squid on size 6/0 […]

Spain’s Lower Ebro river has produced this magnificent wels weighing a staggering 165lb. . The fish was caught by Swedish angler Emill Hjeteberg, who was fishing with English guide Gary Sheridan. Emill fished an eel livebait four feet under the surface to lure the big cat, beating it after a heart-stopping 25 minute battle using […]