Those of you familiar with Total Sea Fishing will no doubt have experienced the shameful blatherings of ‘Iowa‘ (real name Noel O’Toole). He has a ‘thing’ about the excellent rods designed and distributed by the ‘AnyfishAnywhere’ set-up based in Torquay. Iowa has unashamedly offered everything bar sexual favours in exchange for a freebie beachcaster. Julian Shambrook and Ian […]

Over 2000 people responded to Defra’s consultation on proposals to increase the number and size of bass available to the commercial and angling sector. Ben Bradshaw, Fisheries Minister said:“I am really pleased that so many people have responded to the bassConsultation. The high response rate is an indication of the strength of  feelingAbout this issue and I thank everyone […]

March 2006 Do you want to catch more fish? Are you looking to trade up, or buy your first pole? Well, look no further than Advanced Pole Fishing – the UK’s only pole fishing monthly. This month, read about… No More Blanks!Preston Innovations-backed Des Shipp reveals how you can keep catching through the worst of conditions on […]

 THE Talon is a revolutionary new type of reel clamp (patent pending). It comes in two sizes that between them will fit any rod with a butt between 20 and 33 mm in diameter. It can be used with either fixed spool or multiplier reels and can be positioned with the screw fitting to the left or […]

Go Fishing Show 2006, Europe’s largest fishing show, will be casting off at Birmingham’s NEC from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th of March. This year’s show will cover the four core disciplines; Coarse, Carp, Sea and Game fishing, and with over 200 exhibitors and 150 live demonstrations, Go Fishing Show 2006 promises to have something […]

Mallory Park Fisheries in Leicestershire is once again running an Ivan Marks Memorial event with money raised going towards an Ivan Marks fund.The memorial takes place over two days and as last year the idea is that anglers of all standards take part.Anglers will be fishing both The Glebe and Foundation Lake at Mallory Park, […]

Following the success of the online bass petition, a new online petition is up and running with a view to informing DEFRA of the strength of feeling amongst anglers about the plight of the cod.At the time of writing, 680 people have signed the petition – I’ve done it and am pleased to tell you […]

An investigation undertaken by Midland Angler and Southern Angler has revealed that chrysoidine, the bronze maggot dye linked to cancer, is still in common use.The monthly magazines have spoke to several tackle dealers who admitted to using it in the shop regularly, both for bronze maggots and so called ‘disco’ pinkies.More worryingly, some maggot suppliers […]

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For the first time since 1993, a fresh (sea-liced) spring salmon has been taken on February 1st. And it was a first ever salmon as well!!!!Caught by Jan Krempek (a Lodge employee for only two days),it was taken on spinner from the Hut Pool on Beat 8 (Upper Kilmurry) at 2.45pm on the Opening Day.Even […]