Springwood Fisheries has a brand new website which will keep anglers bang up to date with what’s going on at the popular Derbyshire day ticket water. To be found at www.springwoodfisheries.com , the site has been designed to be more interactive for visitors, with weekly match results instantly viewable on the front page. An online […]

The Ladies National Angling Championship took place on Sat 13th June at Baden Hall, Staffordshire. Third time champion, Denise Hudgell, fishing for Reading Angling Team Hydro, drew peg 25 on Old Match Lake and amassed a weight of 33kgs 750gms for a comfortable victory in the match with carp to 5lbs and the odd barbel […]

The final of the World Series event being run by online fishing club Total-FishingClub.com that will see someone win a trip to the 2010 World Champs has been booked for the Glebe Fishery in October.Qualifiers from a series of heats at some of the UK’s top commercial fisheries will fish off at the Leicestershire venue’s […]

Worth, Sussex – Monday June 15th. What do a world famous cricketer, the scorer of Jamaica’s first ever World Cup goal, the designer of the Millennium Falcon for the Star Wars movies, a group of city bankers to the Queen, one of the world’s best known fly fishermen and an international designer have in common? […]

The Angling Trust has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Drywall Ceilings and Partitions Ltd (DCP Ltd) to sponsor the National Championship for Anglers with Disabilities. The National Championship is to be held at Woodlands View Fishery on Sat 27th June 2009. Seven teams have entered each consisting of 10 anglers with up to 5 […]

Ladies Championship in danger of collapse   The Shakespeare backed Ladies Championship competition, an event that was created four years ago by Evesham Angling Festival co-organiser Dave Harrell, is in danger of not going ahead this year if the response is not better than it has been for the past two years. The first year saw […]

At the start of the coarse fishing season, a new poll commissioned by the Countryside Alliance has revealed that more people have participated in angling (38%) than in organised football (36%) or birdwatching (22%). In addition, a further boost to angling, revealed in a Parliamentary Question* has been revealed as Environment Agency figures show that […]

The Wildlife Management Group met recently to exchange information and to seek opportunities to resolve issues regarding otters and freshwater fisheries. The meeting was attended by experts from the Angling Trust, Natural England, the Environment Agency, the Angling Trades Association and others. It focussed, in particular, on the problems involving predation on specimen-sized coarse fish […]

Heavy overnight rain and cool blustery winds met the anglers when they arrived at the Oaks Fishery at Sessay, North Yorkshire for the eleventh round of this years Fish’O’mania qualifiers. Many big names were in attendance still trying to gain one of the last few qualifying spots but when the final hooter went it was […]

Czech adventure angler Jakub Vagner is closing in on his life quest to land every freshwater fish that swims and grows to over 100kg in weight. And he is back among the world records again – this time with a strange-looking Indian catfish called a Goonch (pictured).Jakub was on a TWO-MONTH exploratory fishing trip filming […]

Evesham Angling Festival attracts new sponsor The popular Evesham Angling Festival qualifiers get underway on Saturday June 20th with a new sponsor in place for the Wychavon Championship. Tackle giant Abu Garcia is sponsoring the competition, which will now be known as the Abu Garcia Wychavon Championship and the top prize in this competition this […]

We have great pleasure in announcing the inaugural British Catfish Championship and the Katmandoo Charity Catfish Shield will be taking place at the stunning Celtic Lakes Resort in West Wales. The two competitions will run side by side this year with all competitors who have entered the Katmandoo shield, automatically entered into the British Catfish […]

Springwood Fisheries at Melbourne Derbyshire is hosting a charity match in aid of Help the Heroes and the Ghurkhas fund on Saturday 20th June 2009.  Draw will take place 9am fishing 10am-3pm. Tickets £20. Book in early to avoid disappointment. Any donations and raffle prizes would be gratefully received. For further info contact Colin on […]

EVENT: DYNAMITE BAITS MAKINS Tuesday Evening OpenVENUE:  Lake 4, DYNAMITE BAITS MAKINSDATE:  Tuesday 2 June 2009RESULT1st Jamie ADCOCK   Long Eaton Victoria AS 50 lb 2 oz2nd Ben LOCKWOOD  Dynamite Baits Makins 38 lb 4 oz3rd Sam BROWN  Dynamite Baits Makins 35 lb 12 ozNumber of pegs: 14 Report:The second Tuesday evening open match at Dynamite Baits Makins, fished on Lake 4, failed to fish […]

Total-FishingClub.com Angling Trust Festival, The Glebe, Leics (61 fished)The Total-Fishingclub.com online match angling community raised a fantastic £2240 in the sixth running of this annual two-day event in which Roy Marlow gives up the peg fee at his fishery to allow money to be raised for angling causes. The money will be split equally between […]