A brand new ladies only fishing club, being set up by Lucy Bowden of fishingforeveryone.com has so far attracted over 40 members. The FFE club, based in the North East of England is for ladies of all ages and abilities to try fishing. The club, which is free to join and runs in par with fishingforeveryone.com […]

Middy Tackle has announced the sponsorship of three top commercial-fishery anglers – Graham Dack, Anthony King and Ben Fisk have agreed first-class sponsorship deals with the Derby-based company. All three anglers will be using equipment from the extensive Middy product range and are expecting to have a substantial input into existing and new product design. […]

The first of what it’s hoped will become an annual event in Wales, the Willis Worms Winter Festival, was held over two days, alternating between the Carp Lake and the Match Lake at Ian Heaps’ Holgan Farm Premier Fishery in Pembrokeshire.Sponsored by Denzil Thorpe of Willis Worms to the tune of an added £500 to […]

Former World Coarse Angling Champion Ian Heaps is staging a six-day angling Festival at his Ian Heaps Premier Fishery, Holgan Farm in Pembrokeshire in Wales, in what he describes as: “Probably the richest smallest match in the UK” (?) with a list of over 50 prizes over the three festival days. Running from Sunday 20th […]

Word is that this year’s Fish ‘O’ Mania Final is being moved from Hayfield Fishery to Browning Cudmore Fishery in Staffordshire. Match Fishing magazine is reporting that Arena Pool is the chosen lake, the same pool where current Fish ‘O’ Mania champion Clive Wright qualified from with a 78-14-0 catch of mostly barbel. The circular […]

Defra are to meet with Recreational Sea Anglers from the North-East to discuss radical new proposals which will fundamentally affect all of the region’s sea anglers. Radical proposals that will affect the quality of the North-East’s important Recreational Sea Fisheries for generations to come. The meeting has been arranged following the publication by Defra of […]

South West Water has admitted that sewage overflowed into the River Dart after two pumps failed at Dartmouth last year. The case was brought by the Environment Agency. The water company was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £1,400 costs for allowing sewage to discharge from the Mayors Avenue pumping station. Totnes magistrates heard that […]

There is the feeling amongst many working in fisheries that the Environment Agency (EA), in its role as implementers of the Water Framework Directive, is not taking on the issues that are of real importance to our freshwater fisheries. In order to try and answer some of the concerns the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM) […]

Following the death of hundreds of fish in the River Colne over the last few days the Environment Agency is asking for the public’s help in tracking down the source of the problem. Reports of some smaller fish dying started to come in last Friday, 8 February and our staff investigated that day but could find […]

The Environment Agency is looking for new members to join two Regional Committees in the South West. Both committees are statutory and provide advice and direction, linking the Environment Agency with people affected by its work. The Regional Fisheries, Ecology and Recreation Committee (RFERAC) gives advice on maintaining, improving and developing fisheries. It also advises on […]

The welcome warmer weather has seen things really pick up at Larford lakes and in a great midweek match on shallow bank on the Match Lake the top five all weighed in over 100lb and finished within 16lb of each other. Top spot went to class act Ian Didcote with 116-6-0 from peg 19, with […]

The day was a cracker as far as conditions go light Easterly breeze with the sun doing its best to warm up the anglers waiting eagerly to cast in their baits into the rapidly rising tide. We had 11 anglers of which 3 were Female all firing questions in to the coaches who were there […]

Recreational anglers today (Monday) urged the fisheries minister, Jonathan Shaw, to reconsider his controversial plans to make them buy licenses to fish in the sea. The minister met a delegation led by Richard Ferré, chairman of the National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA), and David Rowe, its chief executive, at Penzance pier during a visit […]

If you bought someone aged 12 years old or over a fishing rod for Christmas, make sure they have a valid rod licence before they try it out. The reminder comes as more than 600 anglers were brought in front of the courts by the Environment Agency in January, resulting in more than £85,000 in […]