Angling personality Keith Arthur has blasted antis as ‘wooly-thinking ignoramuses’ and urged the angling trade to back a boycott of the national media when it gives them a platform. Speaking in Tackle and Guns magazine, Londoner Keith said: “It seems only in Britain and some states in America are afflicted with these wooly thinking ignoramuses. “Until […]

THE owner of popular Woodland View Fishery says he believes pellets, which are banned on his Droitwich water, are ruining commercial waters. The news comes in the same week that Browning Cudmore and White Acres have decided to ban catmeat, amidst claims that it contributes to low oxygen levels.Woodland boss Mike Mason was speaking after […]

Bewdley Angling Festival, River Severn, Bewdley THE first ever three day Bewdley Angling Festival on the River Severn was voted an overwhelming success by the eighty anglers who competed in the event. The festival was fished on the Kidderminster and District match length between Hawksbatch and Winterdyne. Conditions for the event were far from ideal, with a […]

Ladies National, Hallcroft FisheryLINDA Cooke is the first angler ever to win three Nationals following her success in the Ladies event at Hallcroft Fishery.The Wirral angler weighed in 13.800kg on Moat Pool, to take the crown and add to her successes in the same event in 1998 and 2001.And just for good measure Linda, 54, […]

WOODLAND View match team member Paul Williams took a break from banging fish out on red luncheon meat to take on the wild Irish bream of Lough Derg. And the Frankley, Birmingham rod won’t be forgetting his trip in a hurry, as he ended up with his best ever one day bag – 320lb of […]

Anglers are being asked to help prevent extinction of an increasingly rare fish.Shad are listed in national and international law as protected species and the Environment Agency’s north east region wants to ensure that the few that are left in the north east stay there.There are two types of shad – Allis shad and Twaite […]

THE EA has launched an investigation following a surge in disabled consessionary licence sales which could be costing them over £200,000.The belief is that the puzzling upturn in sales is not down to more disabled anglers fishing, but is down to more people conning the system by claiming they are disabled when they are no […]

World Youth Championships, River Arno, Italy A FANTASTIC second day performance by Drennan (Youth) Team England earned them a bronze medal in one of the hottest three-hour world championships ever staged. England coach, Mark Downes, said: “I have never seen a competition like it. In the scorching sun the River Arno fished its head off with […]

GERMAN-BASED tackle manufacturer and distributor Cormoran has announced a new sales organisation for the UK, headed up by recently-retired Daiwa Sports sales and marketing director John Middleton.John will be responsible for the complete sales and marketing operation of the Cormoran brand in the UK domestic market.Cormoran president Dieter Willenbruch said: “We are delighted to have […]

A drive to save the European sturgeon has been launched after research revealed only one remaining breeding population.The initiative comes from the French conservation organisation EPIDOR, a body with close links with our own Anglers Conservation Association. EPIDOR has written to the prime ministers of the ten countries where it’s believes a sturgeon population could […]

BOFFINS are calling for an illegal cull on cormorants to save one of the UK’s rarest fish. The Cumbrian-based Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) says the marauding black birds are putting Hawswater’s rare schelly under serious threat of extinction, and say shooting them is the only option. Ian Winfield from the CEH at Merlewood […]

A MAJOR new study has revealed that fishing and boating are the most popular leisure activities for Americans wanting to spend time with their families.Eighty-seven per cent of Americans believe these two sports have a positive effect on family relationships, according to the survey by the recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation, and they are seen […]

TECHNOLOGY is making gadgets smaller and smaller and the latest handheld fish finders prove the point admirably.The AFL-1000 from Australian firm Aurizon Technologies is designed to sit neatly in the palm of your hand and runs off four AA batteries. It tells you if there are fish in the swim and the depth at which […]

A SCHOOL fishing competition in The Netherlands, which was organised by Beet-Sportvissersmagazine, had to be cancelled because animal rights activists threatened to disturb the event.The competition was supposed to be fished at 40 different locations throughout the Netherlands and close to 2000 children had signed up for the event.On a website, animal rights activists threatened […]

SENSAS Bourne AS proved that practice does make perfect as they raced to a magnificent victory in the team event at the Embassy Division Four National Angling Championship on the Grand Union Canal on Saturday (July 20).And there was joy for John Chapman, a 58-year-old engineer from Bramley, nr Leeds, who captured the Individual title […]