Qualifier tickets for The Angling Bait Club will go on sale no later than the 28th February 2010.  This preliminary date may be brought forward if membership capacity is reached in the interim.   As expressed on the site, it is hoped that by the management of the club membership numbers, that each person that wishes […]

The Environment Agency revealed today that the early Christmas present of fish from the Environment Agency’s Calverton Fish Farm near Nottingham last month to re-stock the Rivers Trent and Tame and other West Midlands waters reached a grand total of 95,500 fish. They brought new hope to stretches of water that were affected by pollution […]

An English carp angler has set a new carp world record with a massive 94lb brute taken by Solar Tackle’s Martin Locke. The mighty fish – known by carp anglers as ‘Briggs Fish’ – was landed at swim 12 on the 110-acre Rainbow Lake near Bordeaux in France, and is a fish that the Kent […]

Britain’s current Arctic freeze-up could lead to an explosion in the number of fish deaths in stillwater fisheries. As a result, venue owners are being urged to take immediate steps to protect stocks during the current cold snap. The Professional Coarse Fisheries Association (PCFA) has advised its members and others responsible for running fisheries to […]

The dates have been released for the Angling Trust Nationals in 2010. The Angling Trust has resisted the temptation to create on main event, sticking with a Division One National (on the River Trent in August), and a Division Two, on the Erewash Canal in July.  National Championship Date Location Division 1 National Championship Saturday 21st August […]

The Bay Malton Angling Club has now officially opened its “Angling Development Centre”, aimed at promoting junior angling from its Border Fishery site near Crewe Cheshire. Bay Malton AC are awaiting the award of their Clubmark certification work in partnership with Dave Smith’s Get Hooked on Fishing Border scheme at their Border site, from where […]

UK Fishing Guru, Martin Bowler, pro-longs contract with OKUMA fishing reel Giant!Martin’s massive success with the DVD’s “catching the impossible” have made him superstar in the trade and OKUMA’s incredible wide range of quality fishing reels, suits his versatile fishing perfect!The next season will se a Strengthened co-operation between Martin and EU OKUMA distributor Svendsen […]

Consultation document from DEFRA over replacement law for section 30 fish movement legislation – anglers’ views sought. The introduction of fish, whether native or alien, into inland waters can be detrimental to fisheries and to local and/ or national biodiversity through competition, predation, disease transfer and hybridisation, or through impacts on the aquatic habitat. The current […]

The Barston Christmas event is usually one of the big occasions of the winter on the open match scene, but with a couple of inches of ice on the shallow big lake, venue owner Nigel Harrhy was forced to try and call the whole thing off. However, he didn’t have the phone number of everyone […]

The Carp Spectacular is back and it’s bigger and better than ever before. The January 9th/10th event is the only show where you can see all of these; Freespirit, Nash Tackle, Aqua Products, Fox, Trakker, Angling Intelligence, Venture, Prestige Engineering, Avtex and lots more. Many manufacturers are exclusively only exhibiting at the show, showing all […]

A stretch of the River Churnet at Consall Forge in Staffordshire that had been badly affected by pollution has received a Christmas present of 500 fish. The 500 cub released into the river by the Environment Agency fisheries team completes the re-stocking programme for the River Churnet following a pollution incident caused by agricultural waste […]

Twenty teams of three braved the cold for the second round of the Hankat Teams Of Three Winter League run by Lee Woodhouse, and for some reason the areas that fished best last time – notably the Dixon street length – was right off form with several dry nets.That opened things right up and opened […]

Call Daiwa Hallcroft fishery on 01777 710448 or E-mail fishing@hallcroftfishery.co.uk for further info or to book in. Draw 9.30am Boxing DayHallcroft Fishery & Caravan Park, Hallcroft Road, Retford, Notts, DN22 7RA

This month (December 2009) the Environment Agency completed the construction of 18 new stone angling pegs on the tidal River Trent at Collingham. Before the new pegs were built anglers had to manage to fish from large rocks that were used for flood defence purposes or unstable grass banks. Because this stretch of the river […]