If you are buying someone who has never fished before a rod for Christmas, don’t forget the rod licence. The reminder comes as 348 cases of fishing without a valid rod licence were brought in front of the courts by the Environment Agency in November, resulting in more than £50,000 in fines and costs.    Fishing […]

Fishing is at times a solitary pursuit, but can also be great fun with a friend, as Berryhill High School students Thomas Smith (age 11) and Nathan Royall (age 12) demonstrated, when the duo enjoyed a memorable day of pike fishing at Fenton and Districts Dilhorne Pools. Thomas a Peer coach with Get Hooked on […]

The lower Thames is in fine form for big perch and Ian Russell cashed in with this 2lb 9oz belter on a lure. Prologic’s Ian Russell swapped his carp rods for a Savage Gear Jig & Spin rod when fishing for perch last week.  Ian caught a number of fish with the biggest weighing in […]

About 6,000 roach have been stocked into lakes and ponds across Kent and Sussex, following a fish rescue at Cobham Hall Lakes in Kent.  The roach, which measured in size from 5cm – 20cm, were removed from Cobham Hall Lakes at the request of the local Cobham Court Angling Club, following a fish population survey […]

The first angling students to complete the ‘Introduction to Angling & the Environment’ OCN qualification developed by the National Federation of Anglers, the Governing Body for Freshwater Angling have been presented with their certificates by Minister for Sport, Gerry Sutcliffe MP and Martin Salter MP on Thursday 29th November at Portcullis House, London. The students […]

The two main political parties spoke up for recreational sea angling (RSA) in the House of Commons annual fisheries debate. In the midst of the debate on December 6, Robert Goodwill (Cons. Scarborough and Whitby) reminded MPs that recreational sea angling was “not merely a hobby: people earn their living from [it], and it is […]

The multi-million pounds fish farming and stocking industry in England and Wales will receive a major boost this month when the Environment Agency’s new on-line fish movements consenting service goes live on Wednesday, December 12, 2007.  “E-consenting is a round-the-clock service that allows applications to move fish to be submitted by fish farms, angling clubs, […]

The National Association of Fisheries and Angling Consultatives (NAFAC) have recently carried out a membership survey regarding fish theft, which indicates that the problem is more widespread than previously thought. As a result, and in order to give everyone the opportunity to comment, the survey questionnaire is now being made publicly available via NAFAC’s website […]

Christmas came early on the River Wey this year as the Environment Agency delivered a stocking packed with 100 barbel yesterday (Wednesday). The batch of 12-month-old fish were released at a site near Godalming in Surrey as part of an Environment Agency project to give the barbel population a boost. Environment Agency fisheries officer Adrian Bicknell said: […]

Environment Agency fisheries officers have released nearly 5,000 juvenile fish into the River Wandle, in an attempt to rejuvenate the river devastated by a pollution incident earlier this year. The release marks the first stage in what will be a long term restoration process. The batches of one to two year-old chub, dace, roach and barbel […]

/Assets/Files/Sea Angling Consultation Document.pdf Click on the link above for sea angling consultation document (PDF) Sea anglers are being urged to have their say on new proposals to benefit their sport and the marine environment. Fisheries Minister Jonathan Shaw today published a strategy which aims to develop a package of measures to enhance sea angling […]

There are stories circulating of further cuts being proposed in Defra budgets for fiscal year 2008/9.  Any cut in Defra budgets is likely to affect money available for fisheries work and the Environment Agency will be under pressure to save even more money than this year. Readers can help change the decision, before it is […]

Match Fishing is once again putting its weight behind the Garbolino Club Angler of the Year competition. It’s time to register for the best individual club angler competition of the year! Match Fishing has again teamed up with Garbolino to give every club angler in the country a shot at winning the prestigious Garbolino Club […]

New measures to maintain and grow the £1 billion recreational sea angling (RSA) industry and provide “more and bigger fish” in the sea to support it, are revealed by the government today (Friday). It follows a four-year campaign by anglers to put recreational angling high up on Whitehall’s problem agenda for the fishing industry. The […]

When looking for the ultimate UK coarse fishing break, Great Yarmouth offers an angler’s holiday paradise with miles of rivers and hundreds of acres of Norfolk Broads right on its doorstep. Inland, the freshwater angler has over 200 miles of rivers and many hundreds of acres of Broads to choose from, which are well stocked […]