The National Association of Fisheries and Angling Consultatives, NAFAC, in conjunction with the Environment Agency, is arranging a one-day fisheries seminar to be held at Phoenix House, Global Avenue, Leeds on Saturday 20th. May 2006. The seminar will be chaired by Daffyd Evans, EA Head of Fisheries. The seminar will host a series of presentations aimed […]

 Flambeau Tackle Storage products are a division of the Nordic Group of America which started life in 1947 and is now selling Tackle products in 61 countries worldwide through a network of distributors and top retailers in 61 countries. The Flambeau range is now regarded as one of the top Tackle Storage ranges in the world […]

Dates have been confirmed for all the summer qualifiers and open matches on the popular match length of the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham. Full details of how to to apply for tickets are in the May issue of Match Fishing magazine. Evesham ’06 Angling FestivalQUALIFIERS & SUMMER OPEN MATCHES  Shakespeare Championship QualifiersSunday June 18th Saturday June 24thSunday July 2nd                                                 […]

Van den Eynde Festival final top ten 1st Gary Hamilton                       44 points          396lb 6oz2nd Harry Billing              44 points          229lb 13oz3rd Geoff Ringer                        44 points          228lb 12oz4th Grant Albutt              44 points          226lb 12oz5th Steve Ringer             44 points          194lb 11oz6th Des Shipp                43 points          298lb 7oz7th Stuart Mcguinness    40 points          270lb 11oz8th Ian Manning              38 points          199lb 4oz9th […]

  White Acres is once again hosting the annual ladies festival sponsored by Walls. The arrival date for the festival is Saturday 1st July 2006 with the matches commencing on Tuesday 4th July 2006. The entrance fee for the festival remains £80 and you need to be staying at White Acres to fish the festival. If you are […]

It looks like Town Lake may have produced a $250,000 common carp today after a Texas angler pulled a 43lb 2oz common carp from the waters in Austin early this evening.   Al St. Cyr, a Denton native who resides in Austin, landed the fish during The Texas Carp Challenge’s final twenty-four hours, and pending verification, […]

Contents April 2006 ***Early Season Special***22 It’s Opening Day!Whitwell Creek on Rutland Water is an ideal location to start an early season session for the bank angler. By using a couple of simple techniques and even simpler fly patterns, the newcomer to reservoir fishing can get a flying start and finish the day with a bag […]

Dear All Hi everyone-hooray the bit of sunshine at the weekend brought out the fishermen and women at Springwood! The fish are getting hungry and what a great way to go fishing and also raise some money for charity. We are holding an open match on Sunday 9th April 2006. Draw at 9am Fish 10am -2pm £20 PER […]

Total-Fishing.com has teamed up with Mosella to offer three great offers to anyone who joins the Total-FishingClub.com fold at Platinum Level. Anglers can choose between:Ten Mosella Impact commercial fishery floats from 4×10 to 4×18 Three 125m spools of the much acclaimed Xedion reel line in 0.16mm, 0.18mm and 0.20mm Five 125gr packs of the oily Manic […]

After a fabulous year which saw Drennan TeamEngland scoop the World title and a silver medal in the European Championships, Mark Addy and Mark Downes, joint team managers, have decided to “stick to a winning formulae” The World Championship squad going to Portugal, Alan Scotthorne, Will Raison, Stuart Conroy, Steve Gardner, Sean Ashby and Des Shipp, […]

Mark Downes, England Youth Manager, has arranged the trial dates for the Sensas U16’s and Drennan U21’s hopefuls, looking to get to the World Fishing Games in Portugal on September 16th and 17th September 2006. Mark said, “both venues are tough. The river Sorraia in Corrouche  (U16’s) and River Raia (Cabecao) are difficult venues and there will […]

 Don’t forget to renew your rod licence before you go fishing – or instead of catching a whopper, you could end up with a whopping fine. The Environment Agency is reminding anglers to renew rod licences as current licences expire on 31 March. During 2005, almost £600,000 was paid in fines and costs by more […]

Dear Mr Bradshaw, Re: Delay in Dealing with Bass Conservation Measures I am being contacted by a number of our members who are extremely upset to learn that DEFRA do not intend to announce a decision on the recent bass Minimum Landing Size (MLS) Consultation until ‘the early summer’. We have consistently urged that action […]