Interest in fishing and in particular specialist angling including carp, trout, coarse, fly and sea fishing is at an all time high in the UK. Many thousands enjoy the sport regularly, making it the most popular leisure pursuit nationwide. Already involved in some of the countries biggest and best Game Fairs, Living Heritage is holding […]

More proof that the online story continue to boom comes from angling website Total-Fishing.com, which has just announced record traffic figures.Statistics taken from the industry standard, Google Analytics, show that nearly 32,500 anglers visited the website in July 2009, a record for what’s already regarded by many as one of the top angling websites.Total-Fishing.com’s Gareth […]

Stillwater Championships 2009 – Results – Blythe 01/08/08 2009        Peg  Name Weight Section Winner B2    B5 Maurice Williams 17-13-0  B7 Roly Mceneaney 30-0-0  B8 Chris Allen 19-10-0  B10 Alan Granger 29-2-0  B11 Lee Davis   B13 John Adamson 54-10-0 Sec A B14    B16 Tony Shepherd 33-0-0  B18 Steve Dalley 25-10-0  B19    B21 Craig O’Brien 39-9-0  B22 Steve Conway 32-0-0  B23 Pete Charles 37-4-0 B25 Geoff Lees 20-2-0 B27 Alan Walton  B29 Paul Hubbard 25-4-0 B31   B33 Warren Beach 31-0-0 B35 Mark Williams 57-7-0 Sec BW1 Phil Smith  W3   W4 Darren Beach 42-4-0 Sec CW6 Dave Hooper 18-8-0 W9 John Mills  W10 James Evans 34-6-0 W11 Garry Loughrey  W12 Tony Musticone 20-2-0 W13 Pete Harrinson  W15   W17 Trevor Wyse  W18 Keith Vaughan 33-1-0 W19 Steve Bellion 32-4-0 W21 Geoff Ringer 31-2-0 W22 Steve Ringer 60-4-0 Sec DW24   W26 Chris Downs 47-12-0 W27 R J Williams  W28 Andy Travis  W29 Phil Ringer 27-8-0 C12 Glen Holman 44-10-0 C14   C16 Alistar Fraiser  C18 Les Ayres 39-4-0 C20 Simon Taylor  C26 Charlie Shaw 90-5-0 Sec EC28 Wayne […]

Shakespeare Championship Qualifier Sunday August 2nd Warwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry65 pegs Barbel and bream winner for Barry      With the river still up and very coloured odd big fish again made up all the leading weights. Match winner Barry Blakemore landed a 10lb plus barbel and a 4lb plus bream on […]

 England U18s World Championships – St Justa, River Sorraia, Portugal 25th & 26th July 2009 In extreme conditions of 38C the England U18s team finished in 5th placing this year in the World Championships. The venue had changed dramatically from three years ago when they won a bronze medal on the waggler. This years match […]

Canal anglers and angling clubs have reacted furiously to news that British Waterways (BW) is to cut its fisheries staff by 50% as part of its ‘restructuring’. The national body plans to reduce the number of specialist fishery positions from three to two and administrative support staff from three to one. Angling clubs are very […]

Ewan McNeish knew he had the fish of a lifetime when this 17lb bass slammed into his live mackerel bait. The firefighter from Gillingham played the fish for over 20 minutes, when it finally tired and allowed skipper Josh Simmonds to coach it into the net. Revolution’s biggest bass was then photographed, weighed and released […]

Richard Sewell boated this cracking pike estimated at 27lb while fly fishing at Grafham Water. Richard said “The fish was caught on a 6 inch white and olive streamer using a Di8 fast sinking line. She was ably netted by my 11 year old son Robbie and was hooked at about 30 feet depth. The […]

Andy Fullylove, and 18-year-old angler from Allesley in Coventry, took this year’s 100-angler Barston Bowl by storm, after catching 100lb 10oz from fancied peg 17. The pegs near the car park produced a string of good carp weights and dominated, and Andy’s Method tactics accounted for fish to 15lb, plus a few big skimmer bream. […]

Shakespeare Championship Qualifier Sunday July 26th Warwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry54 pegs       It was a case of ‘after the Lord Mayor’s show’ in Sundays qualifier which was fished in gale force wind and rain saw a river which had lost its colour from the previous day turn hard again. One man who […]

Shakespeare Championship Qualifier Saturday July 25th Warwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry64 pegs  A couple of inches of extra water and a tinge of colour was all that it needed to get the Warwickshire Avon roach feeding again and good weights were recorded all the way the through the match length. W.B.Clarke […]

The Environment Agency is sponsoring a free ‘angling taster day’, organised by the Rugeley Power Station Social Club, which will take place at Rugeley Power Station on Saturday 1 August 2009 between 12.30 and 5.30pm. The event is part of National Go Fishing Week (24 July – 2 August 2009) and anyone can go along […]

Local team Scunthorpe Blue took the glory this weekend at New Junction Canal, Doncaster, in the team classifications in the Division 3 National Championship and took home the gold medal  with 198 points, and total weight of 19.740kg. Scunthorpe Blue team fishing on the day were; Phil Iveson, Ronny Benn, Dave Bell, Geoff Walker, Dave […]

Valley School, from Worksop, won The Angling Trust Daiwa Schools National Fishing Championship on 15th July by beating 29 teams to take the title for the second consecutive year. It rained for most of the morning but this didn’t seem to dampen the anglers’ spirits with everyone enjoying the day – the sun eventually coming […]

Tunnel Barn Farm, Warwickshire Wednesday, 15th July, 70 pegs Paul Newell walked off with the £500 top prize and a new Garbolino G60 pole after winning the Tunnel Barn Farm Masters in convincing style. The 54 year old from Redditch has devised his own unique way of fishing bread and used those tactics to bag […]