The Environment Agency is urging anglers to add logbooks to their kit as part of a major fish recording project.The Agency’s National Salmon and Trout Fisheries Centre (NSTFC) wants to hear from people interested in participating in a national logbook recording scheme for grayling.The aim of the project – run in conjunction with the Grayling […]

YATELEY’S Sandhurst Lake in Hampshire has received a significant boost to its carp stocks thanks to 30 fish to 33lb. The fish were sourced during a netting operation on an RMC stock pond.In total the 12-acre Sandhurst Lake now holds some 450 carp with an ever-increasing number of 20lb specimens present. The growth rate of […]

 HAYLING Island angler and www.total-fishing.com regular Adrian Farley was so pleased with this cod he took he wanted us to post it on his favourite website.The 18lb 2oz fish is a personal best from the beach and was tempted from virtually outside Adrian’s back door at Eastoke Corner, the lucky fella. He caught it at […]

SKOL MASTERS GRAND FINAL AND FESTIVAL REPORTDARREN COX enjoyed the birthday of a lifetime winning the White Acres Skol masters 12-angler grand final in a dramatic end to clinch the winner-takes-all  £25,000 big prize cheque!Jenny’s Lake on the Cornish holiday park provided a thrilling and evenly poised fishing match in which the identity of the […]

THE barbel record on the famous Royalty stretch of the Hampshire Avon that has stood firm since 1937 has finally been beated by a 14lb 8oz cracker.And amazingly the fish fell to a match angler who was feeder fising in a 25-peg knock up!Bromley, Kent angler John O’Halloran drew a swim known as Fiddler’s West, and […]

THE EA have announced that the price of your fishing licence is to go up another £1 from April. It will see the cost of a full licence rise to £22 from April 2003 and the cost will go up another £1 for the next two years as well. The junior licence stays at £5 […]

THE Carp Society’s main event of the year – the Winter Show – will take place at Sandown Park Racecourse Exhibition Centre, Esher, Surrey on Sunday 1 December.There will be some 2000 square metres of exhibition space displaying and retailing the latest tackle and bait, plus stands from leading holiday companies and of course a bar […]

RADICAL plans to open Loch Lomond to the sea are certain to have a ‘devastating affect’ on angling, it is being been claimed. The Scottish Executive has approved plans to end the loch’s landlocked status by transforming the River Leven into a canal, linking Loch Lomond with the River Clyde.However, furious anglers fear the changes […]

Isle of Anglesey Boat FestivalTHE first ever Isle of Anglesey Charter Boat open attracted 95 anglers, who fished at anchor over two days from 12 of North Wales’ best known charter boats.The main target species turned out to be whiting and dogfish, with occasional dabs, codling, pouting and huss.Day One saw a strong North Westerly […]

THE Prince of Wales has endorsed a new blueprint for environmentally-friendly fishing, called the National Angling Alliance Code of Conduct for Coarse Anglers. The new Code covers care of the environment, anglers’ behaviour, tackle advice and up to date fish care.It has a print run of around 50,000 and is available through the NAA Secretariat, […]

SPECIALIST Gary Newlands has landed a magnificent 7lb 0oz 8dr chub from Fishers Green on the River Lea on the RMC complex.  Gary (pictured below with his fish) fished the Old River on the Waltham Essex venue in the company of Bob Hornegold and also took a ‘smaller’ fish of 6lb 1oz and another of […]

THE River Trent’s silver fish sport isn’t what it used to be but there is still some amazing bream action to be enjoyed if you can find the shoals.And that’s exactly what Wakefield angler Wayne Ibbotson did when he fished the famous Farndon stretch, as he put together a fantastic bag of fish totalling nearly […]

WHITE Acres Match record holder Kieron Rich returned to Cornwall to realise a dream, winning the 170-entry White Acres Preston Innovations Autumn Festival with a maximum four section wins for 36 points earning the £2000 winner’s cheque.Kieron has finished as runner-up on no less than six previous occasions and despite his widely acknowledged stance as […]

CARP fanatics Colin Southern and Bob Coe have enjoyed tremendous success on Fishing Adventures La Horre in the Champagne region of France.In three visits to the lake the pair banked an amazing 150 fish. The weights of the fish were staggering, with thirty five thirties and twenty forties gracing the scales. The rest were all […]

ANGLERS can now use a different kind the internet to check the movements of game fish in three north east rivers – the internet.Figures from fish passes on the rivers Tyne, Wear and Coquet are now available by logging onto the Environment Agency’s website.When a fish passes over a weir or fish pass, electrodes send […]