More than 1.3 million people took to the bankside in 2008 fully armed with a fishing rod and licence in a bid to find credit crunch-friendly entertainment that won’t break the bank.  Rod licence sales hit a record high last year and are predicted to increase by a further 26,000 this year as cash-strapped consumers seek […]

Nuneaton Winter League – Teams of Four1st Round, Sunday 11th January 2009Coventry Canal, Coventry10 teams There was an inch of ice covering many sections of the Coventry Canal for the first round of the Nuneaton Winter League and the frozen areas in Coventry city centre were definitely the place to be. Canal legend Dave Berrows […]

The Environment Agency is inviting local anglers and fisheries to one of three free fisheries workshops to be held along the River Severn over the next few weeks. There are 50 places available at each workshop on a first come first served basis. The workshops will take place between 10.00am and 16.30pm at:• Welshpool on Saturday […]

Farnborough is the place for anglers to be at the end of February as The Big One brings a host of top angling names and companies to town. Top names, top brands, top bargains and top tips at The Big One. With the moving of ‘Go Fishing‘ to Cudmore Fishery in 2009, The Big One […]

The Environment Agency is inviting local anglers and fisheries to one of three free fisheries workshops to be held along the River Severn over the next few weeks. There are 50 places available at each workshop on a first come first served basis. The workshops will take place between 10.00am and 16.30pm at:• Welshpool on Saturday […]

Labour’s Angling spokesman and Reading West MP Martin Salter waved the cold and icy conditions over the Christmas and New Year holiday to spend some time on the banks of his favourite local Berkshire rivers after some specimen fish. Despite the freezing weather he was lucky enough to catch a personal best brace of chub […]

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS Date: Monday 29th December 2008 Pools: Extension & House Pool No F/Man:  21 Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Pete Caton Banbury Gunsmiths/Dynamite Baits 51 – 3 – 0 E 242nd Mark Green Spro Nathams Derby 40 – 15 – 0 E 393rd Jason Shirley Warwick Portabello 32 – 9 – 0 H 84th Pete Hancox Birmingham 31 – 7 – 0 E 365th Pete Rice Garbolino/ Bagem Baits 31 – 0 – 0 H […]

 Where would we be without the canals? With rivers cold and clear and stillwaters frozen over, only the city canals seem to be producing good, consistent sport. Lee Woodhouse’s HanKat stretch of the Walsall Canal is the stand out venue. All but four of the sections in the weekend teams of three 75-pegger were won […]

Our Singleton of Duffdown Whisky competition proved to be one of our most popular ever, with a huge number of entries. We’re not sure what that says about Total-Fishing.com users. Or maybe we are, but anyway, the six winners first out of the hat, who each answered correctly that one of the secrets to the […]

Angel of the North Fishing Lakes to Dec 28th 08 Saturday 27th Dec 08 Pairs Match Lookout & Bowes Mostly cloudy, ambient temp 2 deg (frost overnight but cleared early), humidity 87% Damp, wind calm (to calm need a bit of a ripple),  barometer 1041mb (very high! optimum is 1012 to 1022 for coarse angling), […]

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTSDate: Monday 22nd December 2008 Pools: New Pool No F/Man:  23 Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Roy Winferdale Stirup Cup 58 – 0 – 0 72nd Chris Newton Redditch 55 – 3 – 0 273rd Pete Hancox Birmingham 48 – 0 – 0 154th Steven Birch Northfield 34 – 0 – 0 335th Chris Thackeram Tunnel Barn Farm 29 – 5 – 0 196th Dave Armstrong Redditch 28 – 1 – 0  5 Date: Wednesday 24th December 2008 […]

A proposal for every recreational sea angler in Britain to report their luck to Brussels bureaucrats who could then stop them fishing if they were having too much, has been roundly criticised by English angling organisations. “It would be a monstrous and inevitably chaotic intrusion of policing into the sport of a million men, women […]

Coventry tackle shop owner and bait breeder Alan Lane has passed away after suffering a heart attack. He passed into a coma in hospital and never regained consciousness. Alan’s father was former world match fishing champion Billy Lane, a man some regard as the best angler of his era. The shop name is WH Lane […]

Angling has received a £1.56 million boost this week as Sport England announced its plans to support the Governing Body to deliver angling opportunities for all over the next four years.  Last summer the Angling Development Board (ADB) was invited by Sport England to demonstrate how angling could contribute to government targets of increasing participation […]

Subfish Tackle Shop in Tibshelf near Alfreton, Derbyshire has signed a new one year extension with the National Federation of Anglers, to continue their sponsorship of the Ladies England team. The deal was signed with the NFA but will transfer to the new Angling Trust which will be launched in January 2009. To celebrate their […]