One of the Midlands’ most picturesque venues, Hampstall Fishery, is coming up for sale with an offer price of around a quarter of a million pounds.Set in the rolling Staffordshire countryside near Rugeley to the north of Birmingham, the four lake venue has been developed and run as a coarse fishery by Geoff Payne of […]

Shakespeare’s Neil McKinnon is £6000 better off thanks to a weight countback in the prestigious Ultimate League final held at Hartlebury venue Moorlands Farm over the bank holiday weekend.Eighty of the best match anglers in the Midlands had qualified for the £20,000 event through a season of hard graft in opens Moorlands and Nottinghamshire venue […]

THE Anglers’ Conservation Association has elected radio broadcaster, television presenter and life long angler Chris Tarrant as its new president.Speaking about his new role, Chris said: “This is a role I am honoured to serve in and I have no intention of being a passenger in the association. I have a great passion for angling […]

More than 500 licence dodgers were netted in an Environment Agency swoop last weekend.The offenders were caught during a two day blitz on May 25-26. In total 740 waters across England and Wales were hit and 7,971 anglers checked.Dodgers made up 6.5 per cent of those quizzed – a drop in the evasion rate of […]

ANGLERS looking to buy a new pole should take a note of a new deal introduced by tackle firm Trabucco.The Italian manufacturer is offering a £300 plus trade-in on your old pole, and it doesn’t matter a jot what condition it’s in. And what’s more, your old pole won’t go to waste, but will be […]

CARP fishing remains a growing sector of the angling industry – with more younger anglers getting involved, while the so-called pleasure angler has also migrated into this market.And carp fishermen are prepared to pay good money for quality tackle but they also shop around mail order firms for the best deal. And the market itself […]

DAVID Hall Publishing has made a cracking start to 2002. Figures just released for the first quarter show sales of its consumer titles, which include Match Fishing, Total Sea Fishing and Total Carp magazines, up year on year by 25.6 per cent.Company boss David Hall said: “This is fantastic news for our advertisers – they […]

THE owners of Essex venue Crowsheath Fishery have decide that the only way they are going to get people onto their banks while the World Cup is on is to show every game in their clubhouse.So they are getting a 60 inch TV screen and mega sound system so anglers can enjoy the game with […]

EIGHT anglers who tried to avoid paying £21 for rod licences have received fines and costs of up to £230 at Dartford Magistrates’ Court.The prosecutions were the result of checks in the Dartford area in February and March and come as we await the results of a publicised nationwide blitz on illegal fishing last weekend. […]

A North Sea trawler skipper and his crew had a shock when they fished up what appears to be part of a human skull. The boat’s skipper immediately made radio contact with police and the skull was handed over when the trawler docked at Eyemouth on Sunday. The find was made as the vessel, ‘Bonaventure’ […]

AS football fever approaches fever pitch, the Environment Agency is cashing in by relaunching an ad campaign starring England World Cup winner Jack Charlton.Jack, who won the World Cup with England in 1966 and became a national hero in Ireland when he steered the team to victory over Italy in the USA tournament, is a […]

MEPs have approved a recommendation calling for a Europe wide ‘management plan’ for cormorants following a meeting in Strasbourg with the European Anglers Alliance (EAA), a body which claims to represent 18 million anglers across the continent.The recommendation included a proposal to add the bird to the Iist of the ‘huntable species’. While a long way […]

A seventeen year old boy spoke excitedly to his parents about catching his first ever 20lb carp, just hours before he died on the bankside.James Farrow, 17, caught the personal best 22lb carp from Snetterton Lakes near Attleborough, Norfolk on at 5pm Saturday and called his family on his mobile phone to tell them, before […]

Bedforshire’s noted bream water Brogborough Pit has thrown up a new venue record at 16lb 9oz. The fish is said to have been in immaculate condition and was previously uncaught. But the angler wants to keep fishing the swim for an even bigger bream and so is keeping mum about which swim he caught it from… […]

Zander anglers are up in arms after a West Midlands angler fishing a private stretch of the River Severn in the close season caught and killed a spawnbound 17lb 8oz zander.The angler, Halesowen’s Christopher Charles, listed the catch date as March 30, two weeks after the rivers officially shut down to coarse angling.He caught the […]