The National Federation of Anglers and Matchroom Sport are pleased to announce that the 2009 PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania will be introducing three new venues into the list of 16 qualifiers for this year’s £25,000 competition. Octoplus Boldings Fishery in Bridgnorth, Stafford Moor Fishery in Devon and last year’s NFA Ladies National venue Lakeview, will […]

EFTTA, THE European Fishing Tackle Trade Association, has welcomed the formation of a new single body to represent angers interests in the UK. The Chairmen of all of the country’s angling’s representative bodies have signed a merger agreement which will see them become a single new organisation to represent all anglers from 5 January 2009: […]

Reading West MP Martin Salter has returned to the fray in the campaign against the Environment Agency’s plans to dispose of residential lock-keeper’s homes along the Thames. These plans were put on hold in June following an intervention by the then Waterways Minister Phil Woolas, who came down to Cookham Lock to meet the lock-keepers […]

Anglers World Holidays is launching two completely new Irish festivals in 2009 but says that the 2009 Monaghan Pairs Festival will still be the number one. “It is certainly the ‘hot ticket’ on the Irish match scene”, said Anglers World boss Martin Founds.  “The five-day competition takes place on Lough Muckno during September and has […]

EFTTA, The European Fishing Tackle Trade Association, in a press release dated 10 October, criticised the delay in the publication of research into the size of the cormorant population in Europe, which was announced to be made public in September 2008. Now the Wetland International Cormorant Research Group (WI-CRG) has released some of the awaited […]

Entries are now open for a Charity Cup match organised by the NFA East Midlands Region on Tuesday 9th December to raise funds for The First World War Memorial Fund of the Sherwood Foresters and The Families Fund for the Mercian Regiment. The match will be fished at the well known venue, Lindholme Lakes where […]

Operational and management failures highlighted Anglian Water Services Ltd (Anglian Water) has today (Tues) been fined a total of £150,000  for four times allowing illegal discharges from its sewage treatment works in Newmarket to the No 1 Public Drain – on one occasion bringing about the death of 1,200 fish. Ipswich Crown Court yesterday heard […]

Septembers winning sunset shot revealed at www.nfadirect.com/pentax The NFA and PENTAX U.K. will shortly be announcing the overall winner of the top-of-the-range K10D PENTAX Digital SLR Camera through our angling landscapes photography competition. Not only does the overall winner win a Digital SLR camera, but each of the monthly winners over the past four months […]

The Environment Agency has today (Tuesday 28th October) named Mathew Crocker as its new Head of Fisheries.   Mathew, a keen angler who has worked for the Environment Agency since it was formed in 1996, takes over from current Head of Fisheries Dafydd Evans. He will begin his new role on 1st November 2008, for one […]

A week long session has seen Andre Komornicki from London catch a 91lb Carp and set a new world record for the largest Mirror ever caught.Fishing Luke Moffats Water, Les Graviers, France, Andre caught the record fish whilst fishing with Greys 12ft 6” 3lb Test Curve Platinum Carp Rods.Taking ten minutes to land, ‘The Scarred […]

borwickfishing.co.uk  would like to see some matches held there during the winter months and is looking for a match organiser.  borwickfishing.co.uk has two types of match in mind. In 2006 and 2007, twice weekly open sweepstakes were held which were well supported and had winning weights over 100lb.  The fishery would like to run either […]

Russ Evans is running a two-day festival at top Southern venue Bury Hill Fisheries in the Spring of 2009. The 40-peg event takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday 7th and 8th April on the Old Lake peg 1-50 on the Front Bank and Long Bank. The pools are £60 all in and need to be […]

Chris Morgan is making a bit of name for himself catching big carp from around the Midlands canals, and he’s done it again with a 24lb 8oz ghost carp. Chris, who caught a 36lb canal common carp recently, has had his eyes on the twenty for some four years and finally fooled it within 20 […]

Leamington AA is organizing a charity match in aid of the Acorn’s Children Hospice in Birmingham on the Grand Union Canal on Saturday November 1st. The 50-peg event will take place on the Richmond Road stretch at Solihull with the draw at 8.30am and fishing from 9.30am to 2pm. Bloodworm and joker are not allowed. […]

With the round of big Midlands summer events all but over, Pete Taylor is running a teams-of-three series on the Cornerstone AC controlled stretch of the Grand Union Canal at Small Heath. There will be four matches fished over the winter period, with the first on November 1st. “I fished it recently in horrendous weather […]