OVER sensitive antis are calling for the UK‘s largest aquarium to take seafood off its menu. Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) reckon the policy the Blue Planet Aquarium at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire is “bizarre”. Peta UK director Dawn Carr claimed to be “shocked” when a group member alerted her to the […]

DISCOVERY Home & Leisure has a bumper crop of new angling programmes for this autumn, with Friday evenings dedicated to all things fishy.Starting at 9pm, Fish on Friday is a three hour, uninterrupted block of angling programmes, including Angling Times TV, with a brand new series of Hooked on Fishing with Paul Young showing in September.   In this 15 part series, Paul travels the globe to find the most challenging […]

THE tope are running hard off Cardigan Bay, as illustrated by a recent trip which produced 60 runs and 20 fish to 60lb. Stourbridge and District SAC club secretary Ellis Matthews bagged the big one, and the trip out of Barmouth in Gwynedd also produced 55-pounders to MG Rover Cars Club members Darren Johnson and Steve Allen. All […]

A MONSTER ghost carp weighing 43lb 4oz has been taken from the River Trent at Nottingham. The fish, tempted by Breaston, Derbyshire angler Brian Fallon, is the biggest known carp in the river and fell for Formula 1 boilies fished on a notoriosuly snaggy stretch of water. Luckily when Brian hooked the personal best fish, late […]

ROCK hard Leicestershire venue Swithland Reservoir has produced a superb 15lb 10oz bream to specialist Lee McManus.Lee, a qualifier for the Midland Angler Specialist of the Year final which takes place later this month, baited a gap in the weed 100 yards out with hemp, corn, casters and maggots. The fish took double red maggot […]

ROVING Surrey angler Graeme Pullen has led a party which boated three world records in five days while fishing just 800 metres off a popular beach in the Canary Islands. Biggest of all was a monster 1200lb six gillled shark, and despite the proximity to the coast, the anglers were fishing in some 500 metres of water, using 3lb […]

Six Nations Championship, Furzton Lakes, Milton KeynesA NEW look Drennan England squad which included rookies Paul Yates and Darren Cox was too good for the French, Belgians and other home nations as they eased to victory on MIlton Keynes’ Furzton Lake. England’s Steve Gardener and Will Raison both had a perfect two section wins in […]

MEMBERS only club water Pitlands Lakes in Kent has hit the headlines with a monster 441lb match catch. The amazing bag fell to Mike Jameson in a five-hour, six angler knock-up for Kent Fire Service, with the seecond placed man, Steve Langley, weighing in over 250lb also. “Fishery owner Tom stressed that this was a one-off match, never […]

Charles Jardine, Director of the Countryside Alliance Campaign for Angling, will be spending the night at the Countryside Alliance’s vigil on Parliament Square next Wednesday, 14 August.The vigil has been manned on a round the clock basis since May 15 and has had a different hunt in attendance each day. This will be the first […]

The British Record rod-caught Fish Committee meets as and when necessary, the most recent occasion ratified the following new records listed below. 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, in the absence of Mr RW Page […]

Open letter from Chris Burt of the Specialist Anglers Alliancee-mail: cburt@blueyonder.co.uk “It is with considerable regret that we have to confirm that the huge, concerted efforts from SAA, PAC and the other predator groups in fighting to retain the right to livebait in certain waters in the North West Region of the Environment Agency, have […]

A NEW Carp Angling Conservation Forum has been formed by the Carp Society to tackle illegal importation and movement of fish into England and Wales. Those organisations currently participating are The Carp Society, English Carp Heritage Organisation, Specialist Anglers Alliance, Institute of Fisheries Management, British Carp Study Group, Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association, Environment Agency and Centre for […]

BRETT White just missed on breaking the British carp record when he slipped the landing net under Two Tone at Mid Kent Fisheries’ Conningbrook Lake. The mighty fished weighed in at 60lb 9oz – just seven ounces off the record in waiting (the same fish) taken by Gary Bayes last October. Sidcup, Kent angler Brett seems to […]

A rookie shark angler has boated what’s thought to be the first thresher caught off Cornwall for 30 years.Padstow angler Ron Moody was fishing out of Crackinton aboard Lee Wicks’ boat Emma Kate when the nine foot long, 103lb shark took his mackerel bait on 10/0 hooks intended for porbeagle. An hour long battle followed before the […]

An angler fishing for bass with sandeel has boated a massive ballan wrasse less than a pound short of the British record.Paul Buckingham was fishing on a charter trip out of Salcombe in Devon when the big ballan struck. At 8lb 12 oz it’s only 11oz off the record. The retired policeman from Saltdean in […]