Labour’s Angling spokesman and Reading West MP Martin Salter waved the cold and icy conditions over the Christmas and New Year holiday to spend some time on the banks of his favourite local Berkshire rivers after some specimen fish. Despite the freezing weather he was lucky enough to catch a personal best brace of chub […]

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS Date: Monday 29th December 2008 Pools: Extension & House Pool No F/Man:  21 Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Pete Caton Banbury Gunsmiths/Dynamite Baits 51 – 3 – 0 E 242nd Mark Green Spro Nathams Derby 40 – 15 – 0 E 393rd Jason Shirley Warwick Portabello 32 – 9 – 0 H 84th Pete Hancox Birmingham 31 – 7 – 0 E 365th Pete Rice Garbolino/ Bagem Baits 31 – 0 – 0 H […]

 Where would we be without the canals? With rivers cold and clear and stillwaters frozen over, only the city canals seem to be producing good, consistent sport. Lee Woodhouse’s HanKat stretch of the Walsall Canal is the stand out venue. All but four of the sections in the weekend teams of three 75-pegger were won […]

Our Singleton of Duffdown Whisky competition proved to be one of our most popular ever, with a huge number of entries. We’re not sure what that says about Total-Fishing.com users. Or maybe we are, but anyway, the six winners first out of the hat, who each answered correctly that one of the secrets to the […]

Angel of the North Fishing Lakes to Dec 28th 08 Saturday 27th Dec 08 Pairs Match Lookout & Bowes Mostly cloudy, ambient temp 2 deg (frost overnight but cleared early), humidity 87% Damp, wind calm (to calm need a bit of a ripple),  barometer 1041mb (very high! optimum is 1012 to 1022 for coarse angling), […]

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTSDate: Monday 22nd December 2008 Pools: New Pool No F/Man:  23 Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Roy Winferdale Stirup Cup 58 – 0 – 0 72nd Chris Newton Redditch 55 – 3 – 0 273rd Pete Hancox Birmingham 48 – 0 – 0 154th Steven Birch Northfield 34 – 0 – 0 335th Chris Thackeram Tunnel Barn Farm 29 – 5 – 0 196th Dave Armstrong Redditch 28 – 1 – 0  5 Date: Wednesday 24th December 2008 […]

A proposal for every recreational sea angler in Britain to report their luck to Brussels bureaucrats who could then stop them fishing if they were having too much, has been roundly criticised by English angling organisations. “It would be a monstrous and inevitably chaotic intrusion of policing into the sport of a million men, women […]

Coventry tackle shop owner and bait breeder Alan Lane has passed away after suffering a heart attack. He passed into a coma in hospital and never regained consciousness. Alan’s father was former world match fishing champion Billy Lane, a man some regard as the best angler of his era. The shop name is WH Lane […]

Angling has received a £1.56 million boost this week as Sport England announced its plans to support the Governing Body to deliver angling opportunities for all over the next four years.  Last summer the Angling Development Board (ADB) was invited by Sport England to demonstrate how angling could contribute to government targets of increasing participation […]

Subfish Tackle Shop in Tibshelf near Alfreton, Derbyshire has signed a new one year extension with the National Federation of Anglers, to continue their sponsorship of the Ladies England team. The deal was signed with the NFA but will transfer to the new Angling Trust which will be launched in January 2009. To celebrate their […]

This morning (Thursday 11 December 2008), the Environment Agency Fisheries Team, based in Nottingham, introduced 500 one year old Grayling into the River Erewash at Toton and Long Eaton as part of a rehabilitation scheme in partnership with the River Erewash Foundation. The Grayling were supplied by the Environment Agency’s own fish farm at Calverton.  […]

All the organisations participating in the creation of the Angling Trust have now undertaken the necessary constitutional steps to wind up their existing operations and form the Angling Trust on 5 January 2009. The National Federation of Anglers (NFA) held an Extraordinary General Meeting at the National Water Sports Centre in Nottingham on Saturday 6 […]

Christmas has come early on the River Thames this year as the Environment Agency delivered a stocking packed with 1,250 barbel to the Thames River last week.  The batch of 18-month-old fish was released in three areas along the river as part of an Environment Agency project to give the declining barbel population a boost. […]

Three year sponsorship deal signed with DCP Ltd to support angling The NFA has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Dulley Ceilings and Partitions Ltd who will sponsor the National Championship for Anglers with Disabilities. The DCP Ltd sponsorship will also enable the championship to become one of the country’s leading disability competitions. The sponsorship deal […]

The European Anglers Alliance (EAA) is extremely happy about yesterday’s plenary voting on MEP Dr. Heinz Kindermann’s report “on the adoption of a European Cormorant Management Plan to minimise the increasing impact of cormorants on fish stocks, fishing and aquaculture.” As many as 558 MEPs voted in favour of the report and its resolution calling […]