The inaugural NFA England Veterans team who will compete in the first F.I.P.S.ed organised Veterans World Championships being held on the River Tamega in northern Portugal on the weekend of 12th and 13th July 2008 has now been named. The team manager Joe Roberts and NFA International Events Director Dick Clegg have selected the team from […]

The NFA England Carp Team are nearing the selection of the 2008 team which will travel to South Africa for the F.I.P.S.ed organised World Championships following an invitational event held at Drayton Fishery in Daventry last weekend. The event invited six pairs who have the potential to represent their country and wanted to see how […]

Former Fish ‘O’ Mania Champion, Neil Machin booked his place in this year’s PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania final with an emphatic win at the recent qualifier at The Oaks Fishery in North Yorkshire. With changing weather conditions over the past few weeks, the outcome of the 12th qualifier of this year’s PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania […]

IMPORTANT CATCH FROM RENOWNED NOTTINGHAM ANGLER An historically important barbel mounted in a mahogany bow-front case with a brass plaque that reads ‘Caught at Shardlow Septr.1900 Barbel 7lbs 7ozs by Mr. F.W.K. Wallis’ will be sold at Bonhams next Henley Sale on July 19. Estimated to sell for £3,000-5000 this good-sized barbel was landed by […]

 Stuart Hart from Cradley Heath, has landed a 66llbs catfish on Masters Pool at Shatterford Fishery, using a small chunk of luncheon meat. The fish beats the previous record set only a week ago at 64lbs. Stuart was on the last couple of hours of a 36 hour stay on Peg 14 and hadn’t had […]

The 2008 NFA Ladies National takes place this year at Lakeview Fishery in Melton Mowbray on Saturday 26th July, and with the deadline for entries fast approaching ladies need to get their entries in fast. The NFA Ladies National is the biggest event in the female angling calendar and provides anglers up and down the […]

Labour’s Parliamentary Angling Spokesman, Martin Salter MP, took time out from his duties over the Whitsun week to go carp fishing in the Limoges area of France at Millstone Pool. Despite torrential rain which flooded the lake and spoiled the fishing for two days, Martin’s four man party landed 35 carp including 4 fifty and […]

Twenty four hours on Sway Lakes resulted in the downfall of this cracking 3lb 1oz roach for Kit Holt. The Southampton angler was actually carp fishing with a 15mm Mainlnie Activ-8 boilie between an island and lily pads with a size 10 Fox carp hook at the time.He caught carp to 24lb 4oz, tench to […]

Minister’s Parliamentary answers duck the issue BASS, the Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society, has rounded upon the answers given in Parliament by the Fisheries Minister, Jonathan Shaw, to Bill Wiggins the Conservative Shadow Fisheries Minister, seeking information about recent scientific evidence pointing to a recruitment failure in the UK bass stock. In a statement issued in […]

The much anticipated 2008 Wales Carp Masters is off and running at last with Heat 1 taking place at Celtic Lakes Resort over the weekend of 30th May – 1st June. Seven pairs of carp anglers took part in Heat 1 of the competition, now in its second year. The first three teams were: Position […]

A scientific report has found that heavy metals have begun to accumulate in the food chain in parts of the River Derwent in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, following a pollution incident last year. In January 2007, a settlement lagoon owned by Glebe Mines burst, discharging volumes of sediment into the Derwent via one […]

Hardy consultant John Bailey is pursuing a world record after banking a magnificent 7lb 12oz roach:bream hybrid during a feature for tcf (Total Coarse Fishing) magazine.John slipped the landing net under the fish of a lifetime while fishing one of his secret Norfolk estate lakes, after hooking it on straightforward feeder tactics. John with his […]

The sun came out and there was expectation in the air, as the anglers went to their pegs at Maver Larford on Saturday.  As it turned out, with the top six anglers all breaking the 100lbs barrier, the expectation was justified and it was the fish that were lost that made the difference in a […]

Stars from the match and specimen worlds united in the cause of angling unity, charity and sheer good fun during the second Lakemore Catfish Challenge Cup.Mark Ashmore, owner of Cheshire’s Lakemore Fishery, assembled a glittering array of talent including Mick Brown, Steve and Geoff Ringer, Neil Machin, Jan Porter, Mark Barrett, Jamie Masson and Kev […]

Tickets are now on sale for this year¹s Evesham Angling Festival qualifying matches, which kick off on the opening weekend of the season with a Wychavon qualifier on Saturday, June 21st, and a Shakespeare qualifier on Sunday,June 22nd. There are nine Shakespeare and six Wychavon qualifiers and all the matches are 70-peg events, with a […]