For those of you who were around at 7am on Saturday 17th July 2010, you would have heard Dr Bruno Broughton, Angling Trades Association CEO, announce the start of National Fishing Month in an interview on BBC Radio Five Live, where he spoke about the initiative, how much fun fishing can be and why people […]

The third qualifier of the Big Fish Tackle Store backed Fish to Win £3K series moved to Kent to the popular venue of Monk Lakes near Maidstone in Kent which has recently thrown up some massive weights. On Lake 4 at the weekend prior to the qualifier saw two weights over 200lb and Lake 3 […]

It’s always nice to report big catches that are not made up of carp, so it’s with relish that I can write about a new venue record of 97lb of bream from the Walsall Arboretum. The super catch of 40 bream from peg 25 behind the bandstand fell to Birmingham’s Barry Hall, who fished feeder […]

The England Youth U22s were well represented in this year’s World Championships in Mantova, Italy on 24th & 25th July, scooping team Bronze, with Matt Godfrey taking the Individual Silver. The venue was technically very difficult and the correct balance between big carp, catfish and bream had to be found, with the big shoals of […]

The box has internal flip-top lids and secure outer fastening, and is perfect for all your smaller rig bits. There are four colours out there on the shelves, so you might like to get more from the set. You could then colour-code to organise your kit: RED for float bits, GREEN for leger bits, BLUE […]

Following the recent death of North Staffordshire match angling legend Jeff Moors a memorial match to honour Jeff will be held at Border Fisheries Nr Crewe Cheshire (CW2 5QA) on Saturday 18th September 2010. The draw will take place on the Meridian complex at 9am and fishing will be from 10.30am to 3.30pm. Jeff had […]

The Angling Trust and the CLA Game Fair are delighted to announce that Peter Rolfe is the winner of the first Fred J Taylor Award for Environmental Stewardship in the world of Angling.  Peter was selected for his work over nearly four decades studying and conserving crucian carp, a species which has suffered a dramatic […]

With Solihull’s Barston Lakes in excellent form at the moment, the venue’s annual Barston Bowl was a 110-peg sell-out several weeks ago.With every peg on the Big Lake in, the weights were down from the previous day’s Maver Pairs match, with saw five ton-up weights come from the lake, with current UK Champion Tommy Pickering […]

Budding trout anglers are being offered the chance to ‘have a go’ at fly tying or fly fishing for free as part of Anglian Water’s contribution to National Fishing Month. Pitsford Water has already seen qualified instructors offering their expertise to newcomers, and now it’s the turn of Grafham Water this Friday (July 30th) and […]

The Angling Trust has learnt that DEFRA and the Environment Agency (EA) last year accidentally abolished the law which created an offence of fishing in the close season. This will lead to poachers and illegal anglers caught in this spring’s coarse fishing close season getting away with lesser offences when their cases go to court.The […]

Saturday July 24th59 pegs   Rich vein of form continues! Rich Reynolds’ (Quorn VDE ) rich vein of form continued with a 13-0-0 catch of hemp and tare caught roach from peg 35 on the Isbourne confluence. His third double figure roach catch from the stretch in three weeks generated widespread applause as his dominance of […]