If you like to find out how the aces consistently catch big carp, Total Carp is the magazine for you.  Read how Dave Lane bagged a 25lb mirror within hours of seeing a 60 acre pit for the first time.  Read how Colin Davidson landed two twenties on maggots in a day only session at […]

THE Environment Agency is introducing emergency measures in a bid to make sure the crucian carp doesn’t disappear from our fisheries.The fish cross breeds readily with other carp species, a situation which as led to many anglers falsely believing they have landed huge crucians.Now the EA is worried that there are few real crucian waters left, […]

Mighty Worksop DAA, who dominated the Junior Nationals last year, left the event empty handed with Peterborough DAA snatching a surprise victory in the big event, the Intermediate National.Peterborough beat Worksop by just one point on the River Soar, but Worksop were even pipped for second, with Derby Juniors beating them on a weight countback. […]

A gang of Asians carrying knives, cricket bats and an axe, viciously attacked two anglers at a Birmingham Park Lake.The incident, at Ward End Park Lake, left the two unnamed men needing hospital treatment.The assault happened on Friday afternoon, and one of the anglers, a 34-year-old from Bromford, was struck on the head with the axe.The […]

This year’s Maver Club Angler of the Year final, held at Leicestershire’s prolific Glebe complex, was everything the qualifiers could have hoped for.The competition attracts thousands of the country’s club anglers.Anglers score points for being placed in their club matches over the year, and the top 20 go through to the prestigious fish-off.With three days […]

Schoolboy Christopher Harris may miss out on his chance to claim a new British record because he refused to kill a magnificent 11lb thick lipped mullet. The fish – some 15oz over the long standing British record – was taken while dinghy fishing with his dad Dave against the pontoons at Essex marina, Wallasey Island, […]

DICK Clegg Mark One Sensas completed a staggering rise to the to when they captured the Embassy Division Two National Championship on the Boston Drains on Saturday (July 6).And fireman Steve Bontoft blazed his way to a £2,827 payday when he won the coveted Individual title with 14.510 kg from the Sibsey Trader at Stone […]

MIDLAND Angler’s Birmingham Angler’s Association columnist, Stuart Bloor, took this cracking 13lb 11oz barbel during a session on the lower River Severn at Worcester this week. Stuart has been fishing the area regularly since the start of the season, and tempted the personal best by fishing a hair rigged boilie a third of the way […]

Environment Agency fishing figures for the first part of the year show adult rod licence sales up by 22 per cent on 2001, junior licences up 33 per cent and evasion rates in the latest blitz down 1.1 per cent on the previous month. Internet sales leapt by 280 per cent over this period, a […]

Flounder angler Gerald Taplin got more than he bargained for during a session on Walton Pier when a record rocking 51lb stingray picked up his his ragworm rig and head south at a rate of knots. Yet despite only fishing size 1 hooks on a two hook paternoster rig and 15lb line, he managed to […]

Momentum gathered earlier this year towards the creation of a National Centre of Excellence at Nottingham’s Holme Pierrepont has been slowed to a halt after Sport England representative, George Akins, effectively branded angling a second rate sport.Pierrepont’s rowing course and the nearby Water Ski Lagoon and Winfield Pool had all been touted as ideal sites […]

Angling is to play a part in the build up to the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Manchester in the form of a new 300-peg ‘Aquafest’ match.The National Federation of Anglers has teamed up with British Waterways and the Environment Agency to promote the so called ‘Aquafest’ Championship, which will net the individual winner a cool […]

After rejecting Britain’s rivers out of hand because of the deterioration in sport, Drennan England’s coaches Mark Downes and Mark Addy have chosen Furzton Lake in Milton Keynes, Bucks to stage the Six Nations Championships on Saturday and Sunday August 10/11.Following several trials, including those to decide the England junior team, the two Marks agreed […]

World champions England are breaking with tradition and taking a squad of seven to Portugal in a bid to retain the gold so valiantly won on the banks of France’s River Seine last year. The 48th World Championships is being fished on the River Mondego in Portugal on September 14/15, and coaches Mark Downes and […]

A German angler was left open jawed after slipping the landing net under a 6lb South American PIRANHA while fishing a river near Heidelberg.The two foot long razor toothed fish, which police said must have been a pet which had out-grown its tank, was lured from the River Neckar to the west of the town.A […]