Unscrupulous fishery owners will have to think twice before buying dodgy carp from fish thieves in the future. Environment Agency Wales and Peterstone Fishery, near St. Mellons, Cardiff, have joined forces to tag newly-stocked carp. The fish of up to 30lb in size will each be identifiable thanks to an unique electronic tag inserted into […]
Fish thieves may have had their chips
New Angling Lines 2008 Brochure & DVD
The 2008 Angling Lines Brochure & DVD pack is out now. Just for the price of a phone call you get a 40 page brochure and a DVD containing 3.5 hours of film covering their French venues. The brochure & DVD sit alongside their Website containing 1,000’s of pages of information and an office manned […]
Mighty Rob Quinn takes the Fred Latham Memorial
Rob Quinn is the new Fred Latham Memorial Cup champion after two consistent matches on the Birmingham Mainline Canal and Walsall Canal saw him beat over 40 other hopefuls. The matches could not have been more different. The first on the Mainline was fished in gale force winds yet saw no fewer than nine weights […]
‘Shakey’ hold their nerve
Just a single point separated three of the country’s top teams in the last round of the Warwickshire winter league on a frozen Coventry Canal. It was the powerful Shakespeare Superteam side who took the eventual honours and booked themselves a ticket to the southern semi final on the Kennet & Avon Canal near Pewsey. […]
Fishing With Sweetcorn And Maize
What species can you expect to catch with sweetcorn?Other than predatory fish most species will readily take sweetcorn – it’s a great bait for trying to pick off the bigger roach and bream in your swim and is also especially effective for targeting tench and carp, and on rivers will also be taken by barbel […]
Free coaching from the Welsh Federation of Sea Anglers
The Cardiff Bay Harbour Authority along with the Welsh Federation of Sea Anglers (WFSA) is offering the chance to all sea anglers to get FREE help and advice on there sea angling. On Sunday the 13th January from 0800 until 1200 at the entrance to the harbour there will be several Sea Angling Instructors (WFSA) […]
Back To The Future
Modern baits and antique tackle meet as John Andrews goes in search of tench in London’s historic Bushy Park. But it doesn’t quite go to plan… The day is hot. Not as hot as the previous day which had broken all records by becoming the hottest July day on record with temperatures reaching 36.3 degrees […]
Sport England invests in future for angling coaching
Jackie Sheldon, Senior Development Manager for the Angling Development Board has successfully bid for £40,000 from Sport England to develop the current Level 1 and 2 Angling Coaching qualifications. The funding will enable the development recognized coaching qualifications for the whole of the UK. The ADB have been working in partnership with Scottish and Welsh […]
Popped Up Baits
What Exactly Is A Pop-Up?It’s a buoyant bait that’s held down by a weight, be it a shot or rig putty. Most of the time, anglers pop up a bait only a matter of inches off the bottom, but any bait fished sub-surface is effectively a pop-up, so a zig rig is effectively a bait […]
Popped-Up Breadflake
Bread is very visual bait in clear water, and is also very easy for the fish to suck in and digest, making it first-class bait in winter when the colour drops out of many commercial fisheries as fish activity slows. As it’s full of air, you don’t need to use anything to help it pop-up, […]
European Shore Championships Report
The evening of Wednesday 21st November saw 72 competitors from 7 countries across Europe arrive in Caernarfon at the Celtic Royal Hotel for registration for the European Federation of Sea Anglers European Shore Championships, organised by the Welsh Section, to be fished on the beaches around Pwllheli over the following 3 days. Gwynedd County Council […]
The Big One Gets Bigger
Now at Farnborough, the organisers are promising the biggest and best Big One yet. After more than 20 years at Thorpe Park ‘The Big One South’, billed as the largest one-day tackle show/sale in the country, has outgrown the venue and is moving to the site of the massive Farnborough Air Show.The new venue for […]
Popped-Up Sweetcorn
Sweetcorn is very visual, and when popped up it becomes even more obvious to the fish. It’s important to use the correctly coloured foam – yellow with natural corn, red with red sweetcorn and so on. One major advantage of the foam is that it takes on flavour well and, therefore, can give the bait […]
Anglers’ Lines Now in Store
The latest edition of the FREE NFA newspaper, Anglers’ Lines, is now available in selected tackle shops for anglers to pick up and find out the latest developments in their Governing Body. The Anglers’ Lines, is created by the NFA to help inform anglers on the latest news within their sport and also show we […]
Popped Up Lobworms
Although this method will catch all manner of fish, it’s recognised as a deadly method for targeting quality perch – a species that simply can’t resist the lure of lobworms. The idea is to inject the head of the worm to make it float, but hold it down on the bottom with a weight (usually […]
