Following months of negotiation, Bury Hill Fisheries is pleased to announce details of a new lake situated close to Esher, Surrey for night fishing. An historic six acre lake set in magnificent landscaped gardens, the 200 hundred year old lake which is owned by the National Trust has never been fished before and under the […]

Glenn Lawrence recorded a tremendous double success when he and his new angling partner, John Dunnil, landed the top spot at the weekend with 499 points in the fourth qualifying round of the £21,000 Embassy Challenge on the Trader and Hobhole Drains in Lincolnshire. Lawrence, a 39-year-old electrician from Barnsley, who competes for Van Den […]

Moray eel and sand tiger sharks will be among the main attractions when Europe’s deepest aquarium tank opens in Plymouth, Devon on Saturday. Lifesize whales will also form part of the £4million development. The new Mediterranean Tank at the National Marine Aquarium (pictured) will home hundreds of species of fish and gives anglers the chance […]

Youngsters hooked on fishing could net themselves a prize in an Environment Agency-sponsored national angling championships.Castaway 2002 is one of the largest youth angling events in the UK, organised by the National Association of Clubs for Young People and hosted by the Doncaster and District Angling Association.The event takes place over the weekend of July […]

A massive bream weighing 22lb 6oz has been washed up on the shores of Oxfordshire trout reservoir Farmoor No1.The fish is the biggest ever seen in this country, although they are known to grow to that size in some Scandanavian countries.The bream, found by warden Chris Slade, was spawnbound but weighed nearly 4lb over the […]

European Championships reportDespite boasting two section winners and finishing just five points off the gold medal position on Day One, Drennan England could only finish fifth in the European Championships fished on the Prince Albert Canal in Leige, Belgium at the weekend. The host country were convincing winners in the end, with 42.5 points on […]

Joiner John Harris made the long drive from his home county of Essex to Gwynedd in Wales more than worthwhile with a monster shore caught tope weighing 37lb.The Dovercourt angler was acting on a tip-off from Pwllheli tackle shop D&E Hughes, who told him the area had been producing big tope at night. John baited […]

Mark Downes has admitted to Total-Fishing that the team is ‘struggling a bit’ in its bid to bring back gold from the European Championships.Speaking two days into the official practice session on the 200 metre wide Prince Albert Canal in Leige, coach Mark said: “It is a bit of a struggle. The biggest weight we’ve […]

RMC boss Ian Welch says he expects the venue to produce Britain’s first ever 40lb grass very soon, after the venue’s Church Lake smashed the British record with a 39lb 2oz fish in the first week of the new season. The fish fell to the rod of East Grinstead, Sussex angler Kevin Ballard, and beats the […]

Angling lost one of its great heroes last week when Benny Ashurst died suddenly aged 88. The former miner, who along with the likes of Billy Hughes pioneered a revolution in match fishing techniques in the 1960s and 1970s, died two days into the new season, after going fishing as normal on opening day. His son Kevin, […]

The National Federation of Anglers manager for the NFA’s England Team with Disabilities, Alan Bates, has announced a ‘tried and trusted’ squad to fish the 2002 World Championships for Angler’s with Disabilities being staged at the National Angling Centre in Llanelli, Wales on Saturday and Sunday, August 17/18. The five-man squad were chosen after a tough […]

For the first time since 1906, when the inaugural NFA National Championship was fished, the ‘Nationals’ as they are now known, will commence prior to the traditional June 16 new season next year (2003). NFA National Executive officer, Mick Turner, explained “We have enjoyed a super sponsorship agreement with Embassy but although we have a legal […]

Environment Agency staff are looking into how thousands of fish died in a canal in Middlewich, Cheshire.About 5,000 fish, including carp, roach and gudgeon, have been found dead in the Trent and Mersey Canal. A half-mile stretch of the canal, between Town Bridge and Big Lock, is affected.First reports on Friday were of a smaller […]

The Environment Agency and the National Federation of Anglers will be giving free angling instruction to children at Langbridge Farm in Newchurch this Saturday (22nd June).The Agency, in association with the Newchurch and District Piscatorial Society, wants to encourage youngsters who have never tried freshwater fishing to ‘give it a go’. Coaching is free; bait […]

The Joint Angling Governing Bodies are launching a new scheme to licence qualified coaches/instructors operating within all three disciplines of the sport. This is the culmination of a commitment made in 1999 by the three Governing Bodies of angling – the NFA, the NFSA and the STA- to bring the sport into line with other […]