Entries are now open for a Charity Cup match organised by the NFA East Midlands Region on Tuesday 9th December to raise funds for The First World War Memorial Fund of the Sherwood Foresters and The Families Fund for the Mercian Regiment. The match will be fished at the well known venue, Lindholme Lakes where […]

Operational and management failures highlighted Anglian Water Services Ltd (Anglian Water) has today (Tues) been fined a total of £150,000  for four times allowing illegal discharges from its sewage treatment works in Newmarket to the No 1 Public Drain – on one occasion bringing about the death of 1,200 fish. Ipswich Crown Court yesterday heard […]

Septembers winning sunset shot revealed at www.nfadirect.com/pentax The NFA and PENTAX U.K. will shortly be announcing the overall winner of the top-of-the-range K10D PENTAX Digital SLR Camera through our angling landscapes photography competition. Not only does the overall winner win a Digital SLR camera, but each of the monthly winners over the past four months […]

The Environment Agency has today (Tuesday 28th October) named Mathew Crocker as its new Head of Fisheries.   Mathew, a keen angler who has worked for the Environment Agency since it was formed in 1996, takes over from current Head of Fisheries Dafydd Evans. He will begin his new role on 1st November 2008, for one […]

A week long session has seen Andre Komornicki from London catch a 91lb Carp and set a new world record for the largest Mirror ever caught.Fishing Luke Moffats Water, Les Graviers, France, Andre caught the record fish whilst fishing with Greys 12ft 6” 3lb Test Curve Platinum Carp Rods.Taking ten minutes to land, ‘The Scarred […]

borwickfishing.co.uk  would like to see some matches held there during the winter months and is looking for a match organiser.  borwickfishing.co.uk has two types of match in mind. In 2006 and 2007, twice weekly open sweepstakes were held which were well supported and had winning weights over 100lb.  The fishery would like to run either […]

Russ Evans is running a two-day festival at top Southern venue Bury Hill Fisheries in the Spring of 2009. The 40-peg event takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday 7th and 8th April on the Old Lake peg 1-50 on the Front Bank and Long Bank. The pools are £60 all in and need to be […]

Chris Morgan is making a bit of name for himself catching big carp from around the Midlands canals, and he’s done it again with a 24lb 8oz ghost carp. Chris, who caught a 36lb canal common carp recently, has had his eyes on the twenty for some four years and finally fooled it within 20 […]

Leamington AA is organizing a charity match in aid of the Acorn’s Children Hospice in Birmingham on the Grand Union Canal on Saturday November 1st. The 50-peg event will take place on the Richmond Road stretch at Solihull with the draw at 8.30am and fishing from 9.30am to 2pm. Bloodworm and joker are not allowed. […]

With the round of big Midlands summer events all but over, Pete Taylor is running a teams-of-three series on the Cornerstone AC controlled stretch of the Grand Union Canal at Small Heath. There will be four matches fished over the winter period, with the first on November 1st. “I fished it recently in horrendous weather […]

The River Severn revealed one of its giant zander to Stourbridge angler Gary Bagley when he slipped the net under a magnificent 18lb 10oz fish during a boat session. Gary, who legered a hand-sized skimmer bream in darkness, says that the best areas for the species on the river are where the riverbed drops sharply […]

Last Monday was the highly anticipated start of the predator fishing season at Grafham Water. Those fortunate enough to reserve a boat for the first day were targeting zander and pike.  As usual Grafham Water didn’t disappoint with plenty of zander, including two from different areas being weighed at 17lb 8oz and at 15lb 2oz.  […]

Coventry specialist Matt Ridley has banked the biggest ‘day ticket’ carp in the land in the shape of a fish called The Creature from Bluebell Lakes in Northants at a massive 64lb 2oz (pictured in this week’s Angling Times), its biggest ever weight and less than 4lb off the British record. The fish was stocked […]

Over 100 schools have the potential to go fishing following angling’s attendance at the School and Sports Partnerships’ Conference organised by the Youth Sports Trust in Telford last week (15th & 16th September). Both the NFA and ADB attended the conference in a bid to increase the number of schools becoming hooked on angling education […]

 The part angling plays in fighting social exclusion and improving community relations is the focus of new research being funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Social research cooperative Substance has received good cause funding of £284,151 to look into how angling helps socially excluded young people in England and Scotland and contributes to sustainable rural […]