HERE at the Balvenie distillery in Scotland we are asking fishing enthusiasts to share their fishing stories with us on: http://www.thebalvenie.com/story_to_tell/fishing/expert_story1.html?clickthrough=story Jon Beer has already shared a great story. We are now asking enthusiasts to share their fishing stories and win a whisky tasting trip to the Scottish Highlands with their mates and runners up bottles of […]

DTHE European Fishing Tackle Trade Association’s (EFTTA) line-testing programme has taken a ‘leap forward’ since demonstrating the project at this year’s EFTTEX in London.EFTTA claims that many companies visited the line-testing stand at EFTTEX, where technicians from the EFTTA-appointed independent laboratory carried out tests on lines that were submitted to them. All tests were treated […]

THE French tackle trade has recorded a worrying downturn in sales.Results received by TTW for the first six months of the year in France, show that the market is down 31/2 per cent year on year. Lure fishing has probably stood up best in what is becoming a dismal year in France, with sales down […]

THE big money Gursensey Autumn Angling Challenge is open to anybody who is NOT normally a resident in the Bailiwick of Guernsey and who will be visiting the Bailiwick for the purpose of a holiday during the competition period. All entries must include the name and address of a witness to capture and be weighed on […]

Midland Angler November issue – on sale now only £1.99 Cormorant breakthroughHow the Midlands’ top fishery owners have reacted to the cutting of cormorant culling red tape Try the Trent for a barbelTwo locals bag 55 in an afternoon at in form Collingham New Bagging WaterLarford Fishery to open new water for club anglers Des Taylor Spraying maggots for specimen […]

BEN Leach blasted away the opposition to win the four-hour 24-angler winner-take-all Parkdean Masters Grand Final at Cornwall’s White Acres Country Park and trouser the cool £25,000 winner’s purse with 68-3-0.Jenny’s Lake was once again the scene for Parkdean’s Blue Riband fishing event backed by the company themselves and despite changeable weather sport was good […]

THE Channel Islands and Guernsey carp records were beaten last Tuesday 12th October by a fish weighing 33lb and 12oz – the first carp in the Channel Islands ever to break the magic ‘thirty’ barrier.  Captor Chris Hibbard (pictured above with the fish) was understandably delighted when his Mainline boilie was picked up by the fish […]

MATCH FISHING – NOVEMBER ISSUE Raison’s DozenWill visits a venue where he’s caught 100lb EVERY time he’s been. Find out where it is and how to fish it. Carp From The Start Commercial fishery bagging machine Steve Ringer shows you how to use various types of paste to catch big weights of carp. Advanced River Fishing  Drennan North-West […]

THE NFA has landed a panel of top class speakers for their ambitious Seminar planned for Monday, November 1, 2004 at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham.  The Minister for Sport, the Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP, Martin Salter MP, the Parliamentary Fishing and Shooting Spokesperson, Dr Dafydd Evans, Head of Fisheries, EA, […]

Parkdean Masters 2004 Day 4 Day four and the cold easterly wind is leveling the field, you can cut the tension with a knife as its only the top six overall that can sit back with the 32 points that should be enough to get them into the final. Our hero in the fishing lodge […]

THE Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) National River Fly Survey results demonstrate that there has been a dramatic decline in river fly numbers from the 1950s to 2001. Peter Hayes, the Survey co-ordinator, explains that, ¡§River flies are the miner¡¦s canary of environmental quality.  They have been declining at a tremendous rate. While there are indications […]

Total Carp Magazine – November 2004ON SALE – 20-10-04 ‘24’Derek Ritchie takes two anglers fishing for 24 hours at Kent’s Chillham Mill. The aim? To bag a few autumn twenties. On Ya Marks!Want to catch a 20lb common? Mark Law and Marc Coulson have just the venue, and show you how to do it. Mastermind One of the […]

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF ANGLERS Executive Manager(Membership Services and Sport Development) Salary £22,000 to £25,000 per annum  We are looking for an experienced professional to head our Central Office currently based at Egginton, Derby, although a move to the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, is being considered. This is an exciting opportunity for a committed and dedicated […]

THE Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) is deeply concerned that the government’s go-ahead for water companies to include environmental improvements in their workplans is too little, too late – and penalises the innocent.  The EU Water Framework Directive, setting minimum quality standards that most British rivers would now fail, is a clarion call for action […]

THE capture of a new record barbel at 20lb 6oz has been confirmed to Total-Fishing. The fish fell to Northants Specimen Group stalwart Tony Gibson, who was fishing the well known Adams Mill section of the Great Ouse. It’s one of the venue’s known big fish, called ‘The Traveller’, and fell to a Source boilie, fished in […]