Allan Wood shows off a fantastic 13lb 8oz brown trout landed on Opening Day at Rutland Water.  Allan, of Owston, Oakham won the Independence Day Trophy for the biggest fish taken on opening day. It’s the biggest brown trout landed at Rutland Water for a number of years.

This year’s Evesham Festival on the Warwickshire Avon in August will see the use of bloodworm and joker trialled for all three final days and two of the qualifier weekends.The controversial bait has previously only been allowed in the Match Fishing Team Championship on Bank Holiday Monday, and for the past few years it’s been […]

Total-Fishing.com teamed up with float maker Nick Gilbert of www.Float-Store.co.uk for a recent competition to give one lucky user the chance to win 20 of his hand-crafted pole floats and pellet wagglers for commercial fisheries. The winners are below…. WinnerCraig SingletonCraig can choose any 20 pole floats from the Float Store range. Runner UpAndrew BatesAndrew […]

Pike anglers hope to be reeling in cash at a charity fish-in in aid of Help for Heroes. A pike fishing holiday in Ireland and a weekend break at a top Scottish hotel are among the prizes on offer at the bash, which is being staged on Saturday, September 4, at Loch Vennacher.PAC member David […]

The White Acres Junior & Intermediate Festivals feature goodie bags for everyone entering the match, supplied by all the festival sponsors – Coca Cola, Drennan International and Preston Innovations. What’s more there’s also great prizes to be won. Both festivals will run across two days, on 13 & 14 April. Anglers 15 and under are […]

The Angling Trust has presented a Manifesto for Angling to the three main political parties on behalf of the nation’s 3 million plus anglers. The document was presented to Fisheries Minister Huw Irranca-Davies and Shadow Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon in the House of Commons, and a copy was also sent to Andrew George of the […]

THIS week’s Angler’s Mail magazine exclusively reveals pictures and full story of a British record-breaking 6lb perch! The disabled angler who caught the massive stripy reckons the water he caught it from has even bigger perch! Angler’s Mail editor Tim Knight said: ‘The perch is a species we know all UK coarse anglers have a soft […]

/blog.aspx New Fishing Show For Second City?Birmingham could host a brand new fishing show off the back of the popular National Boat, Caravan and Outdoor Show in February 2010. The National Exhibition Centre would be the venue for a showcase for new tackle with no retailing other than limited special offers from the manufacturers. It’s […]

Moorlands Farm is running an Easter Extravaganza from Friday April 3rd through to Monday 6th, with some £5,000 of Browning tackle up for grabs. It’s £20 entry plus £20 pools per match, with any two matches over the period counting and the winner decided on points.  There was no festival at the Hartlebury venue last […]

Matchman of the year lands huge Wels catfish on 5lb line for the TV cameras! Andy May cradles a 35lb catfish – caught by accident on normal feeder gear while filming for OnlineFishing.TV .Andy was tackling Lake 5 at Cudmore Fishery, showing how to fish the ‘pellet cone’ and catching plenty of carp. But on […]

Anglers remain frustrated with Severn Trent plc after the Angling Trust met with senior officials of the company regarding its decision to close Draycote Reservoir to all angling in 2010. At a meeting in February and in a subsequent exchange of correspondence, the Angling Trust has expressed its grave concerns that the decision to close […]

Birmingham could host a brand new fishing show off the back of the popular National Boat, Caravan and Outdoor Show in February 2011. The National Exhibition Centre would be the venue for a showcase for new tackle with no retailing other than limited special offers from the manufacturers. It’s what many in the angling trade […]

Duncan Charman has been doing loads of filming lately and is one of the stars of a new Series called ‘The Session’, being made and broadcast exclusively by Internet angling TV channel OnlineFishing.tv . The Korum-backed specialist captured this fighting 4lb 6oz chub as part of a trio of good fish while showing the viewers […]

Murph Wood was truly amazed when this “dustbin-lid” of a whopper hit the surface.  The Cheltenham angler tempted the 19lb beast or a turbot on a whole side of mackerel whilst out drift fishing the Shambles Bank, aboard angling vessel ‘Fish-On!’ skippered by Weymouth’s Josh Simmonds.