TWO hundred carpers descended on a lake in Romania last week in search of a world record breaking carp.Sarulesti Lake is confidently tipped to hold a fish of at least 90lb, and top carp anglers in 104 teams from more than 30 countries spent the week trying to claim their place in history, and to […]

ANGLERS wanting to buy or sell a fishery now have a specialist estate agent to contact. The website www.fisheries4sale.com, claims to be the first dedicated fishery estate agent and says it offers a ‘fully professional estate agency service’.  The site is the result of a collaboration between chartered surveyors Fenn Wright and www.fisheries.co.uk and is […]

THIRTY thousand trout are to be taken on a wild white water raft ride to a new home in the Rocky Mountains, USA.In a unique scheme, the 23cm trout are being trucked from a hatchery in Calgary to the specially fitted rafts, which will then take them through hell and high water to Kananaskis Lake, […]

FORMER Polish president Lech Walesa has found a new outlet for his opinions – a national television programme on fishing.“I’ve tried many subjects so I can add one more,” said keen angler Walesa after signing the deal with Polish network station TV3. “I have so much to say on so many subjects, as a witness […]

NEWS reaches us here at Total-Fishing that Sport England has finally agreed to fund next year’s Ladies World Championship in England. Many of you will know that Sport England, the guys who dish out the lottery cash, had rejected the NFA’s bid for funding not once, but three times.The NFA had applied for £15,000 of […]

Clean sweep for West Midlands teams in Division Three NationalDICK Clegg Lifestyle flew the flag for the Midlands in the final big team match of the year, the Embassy Division Three National held on the Erewash and Beeston Canals around Nottingham.The West Midlands outfit beat 42 competing teams in what is their best ever National […]

A lady angler has boated the biggest brown trout ever caught on Ireland’s Lough Corrib at 21lb 8oz.Marian McDonnell from Roundstone, Co. Galway was fishing only a short distance from Burrisheen Bay, along with her friend Bartley Molloy when the fish took a trolled bait.The fish beats the current and long standing Corrib trout record by […]

Dear Prime MinisterOn Sunday a massive number of decent law-abiding people, men, women and children, came to London from all quarters of the country to demonstrate peaceably in support of the principles of liberty and livelihood in the countryside. They represented countless more of the rural constituency who make up nearly a fifth of our […]

Dutch angler Jan Jaspers has landed a 387lb bluefin tuna off the Galway coast, the first one taken from any ports outside Donegal.Jan was fishing with skipper John Brittain, Clifden, owner of the charter boat the Blue Water, which operates daily from Clifden Boat Quay. “This is excellent news for boat owners operating tourist angling trips […]

A YOUNG angler got more bite than he bargained for when he reeled in a piranha from his local pond. Robert Medwid took his two sons, Michael, 13, and Jordan, 8, to High Park lake in Toronto, Canada after they’d visited the Canadian National Exhibition. AT about 7pm, Jordan, who was using a broken fishing […]

Five pilot schemes to improve freshwater fisheries have proved so successful that more are to be launched this autumn.The Fisheries Action Plans (FAPs) were developed in a partnership between the Environment Agency, anglers, conservationists and other interest groups to increase public involvement in the management and development of their local fisheries.The pilot schemes were on […]

AMERICAN anglers are up in arms following the discovery that the humble ruffe has invaded the massive Lake Michigan.The ruffe turned up during a routine survey of the water by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) – the first confirmed finding of the species there. Ruffe were first discovered in the Duluth Harbour, Minnesota and […]

APPROVAL has been granted for massive new 160-acre bait farm to be built in west Wales. Councillors gave the thumbs up to the ragworm farm scheme on Thursday, and those behind the Carmarthenshire project will now apply for a European grant to help them complete the £4.5m project which is expected to create up to […]

ChampionshipsThe England Men’s team brought home the bronze medal after a close fought competition in the World Shore Championships in Belgium. Portugal took the gold, maintaining top position from day one. England were denied the silver medal position by Wales, who put in a splendid performance which also resulted in Welshman Alan Price being crowned […]

CANADIAN police have arrested a man in connection with cheating in trying to win a £5000 fishing match.Police said they were called to the Great Ontario Salmon Derby to investigate a winning 34lb chinook salmon entered in the ‘derby’, held at Bluffers Park. After a close inspection, detectives found more than 7lb of lead pipe […]