Environment Agency officers are urging anglers to take part in two major fishing competitions in the region. Anglers will have the chance to win cash prizes whilst also doing their bit to help survey the Rivers Tyne and Wear for coarse fish. The Environment Agency has teamed up with the Tyne Anglers Alliance, the Tyne […]
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Angling championships to help survey stocks in the Tyne and Wear
Mark Dallas guilty of illegal fish stocking
On the 19, July, 2007, Mark Dallas pleaded guilty at Stafford Magistrates Court to a charge relating to illegally stocking bream in a Staffordshire pool without consent from the Environment Agency.The charge was brought by the Environment Agency under the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975. Mr Dallas, aged 42, of Woodham Road, Battlesbridge, Wickford, […]
Irish Angler magazine
Contents Sept 200707 EDITORIALWhat’s the editor ranting on about now?08 NEWS AND LETTERSForthcoming events and the latest from the Irish angling scene.13 FISH OF THE MONTHCork angler Pat ‘Nav’ Heslin catches a nice trout from Lough Mask.14 DINGHY ANGLERThe Clohessys find out that what works for cod on one mark fails completely on another. That’s […]
Good news for returning NW salmon
Members of the Mersey and Weaver Fisheries and Angling Consultative were celebrating good news for the “King of Fish” at their last meeting.The main river in the MWFACA area, the River Mersey, was formerly one of the most polluted river systems in the UK, but in recent years industry has cleaned up its act and […]
Youngsters Grab Glory While Hunting At Wolvey!
Seven five youngsters lined the banks of Phase 1 at BW Makin Fisheries, split up into three age groups on Lakes 2, 4 and 5, with young 12-year-old Sam Hunter, fishing for Barnsley Juniors, setting the field alight with a fantastic 79lb 2oz of mainly carp to take the top prizes and trophy in the third year […]
NAFAC helps Club to restock
Saddleworth AA, a member of the Mersey and Weaver Fisheries and Angling Consultative, is celebrating a successful outcome to a longstanding problem following help from the north-west Consultative and NAFAC. The club had been trying for almost five years to stock some hream in a section of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal which it rents from […]
Take A Friend Fishing 2007
Played With Braid?
Gareth Purnell, TCF editor, gets out his braid as he goes in search of a bag of Ferry Meadows bream and skimmers. My first brush with Ferry Meadows Lake near Peterborough was probably 15 years ago. Back then, working on Angling Times, we had an annual challenge and that’s how I got to know the […]
Anything But Carp: Rudd
With flanks of soft burnished gold and blood red fins, the rudd is surely one of the most strikingly beautiful fish in the UK. But sadly, like the crucian carp, it is far less common than it once was. Stocking policies geared towards carp have seen rudd pushed out of many fisheries; thankfully, however, there […]
Angel of the North Lakes 24th July
Angel of the North Fishing Lakes Match and Catch Report to 22nd July 07Thank goodness, we built in 100-year flood systems in the lakes; we have kept water levels constant throughout this rain, and through the dry spells of spring.Fishing is fantastic on all three lakes, Water temperatures have plummeted again, and then gone up […]
Rudd
Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) Weight: On venues where there are large shoals, the fish tend to become stunted and rarely grow to above 4oz to 5oz in weight. On larger British waters, such as gravel pits, the average can be over 1lb with a fish weighing more than 2lb being regarded as a specimen. The odd […]
Match organisers over a barrel on fish deaths
The Pike Anglers Club is calling for pike match organisers to stop using barrels to retain fish after claims pike died in poorly-stewarded competitions in recent weeks after being kept for long periods without oxygenation.The latest scandal centres on events held on loughs in Ireland – where the practice appears to be on the increase.It […]
Weymouth bass competition
Winner of Weymouth’s first ever charter boat bass competition is Darren Moon from Devon. Showing off day ones heaviest fish of 12lb 8oz (pictured below) claiming the cash pot, for heaviest fish, of £260. Boats involved Revolution, Lone Shark, Alice Rose and Wild Frontier. Sponsored by Weymouth Angling Center and Quayside Fuels. Full Results:-1st —– Darren Moon …. Revolution […]
Harrell through at Evesham
Shakespeare Championship Qualifier Sunday July 15thWarwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry70 pegs After some excellent midweek roach catches most competitors expected the fourth Shakespeare Championship qualifier to dominated by the species but heavy overnight rain and a river that was colouring up during the match paid to that. Instead it was chub […]
Boost for anglers and fish stocks, following the lifting of ban on Tench Rhabdovirus
The Environment Agency fish farms at Calverton and Leyland have lifted their self-imposed ban on using only Tench Rhabdovirus-free broodstock, following a two-year investigation into the disease and its distribution in rivers across England and Wales.The investigation was prompted by an outbreak of the disease in 2004 at the two fish farms, and the subsequent […]
