AT long last, angling is all set to net its own multi-purpose National Angling Centre. Full planning permission has been granted and six lakes (providing a total of 200-pegs) are currently being stocked with carp, roach, rudd and tench in readiness for the grand opening late in 2005.The exciting new complex is at Whitmore, near […]

ANGLING globetrotter Zyg Gregorek was told he had to pay a bill of more than £8,000 run up by thieves after his mobile phone was stolen in South Africa. Zyg and Rosemary Gregorek who run the popular Angler’s Paradise complex at Halwill near Holsworthy, Devon, were on holiday when the phone was stolen in Johannesburg. They […]

MORE than half of anglers want the Government to carry out more research into whether the Close Season on rivers should remain, according to the first poll carried out by AnglersSay.com. Of the 1,292 anglers who took part in the website’s first poll, a total of 786 – 60.8 per cent of those who voted […]

Report by Pebsit (Phil ‘I might look like Andy Findlay but I can’t fish like him’ Stone) TWENTY one Total-Fishing matchmen met up at Castle Ashby on January 2nd for what was to be a gruelling 5 hours of fishing. There was no wind, all was calm and still and obviously even the fish couldn’t be […]

EXPERTS have come up with the unique solution of using unwanted Christmas trees to create better spawning habitats for the fish in Tyneside’s Killingworth Lake.In a joint venture with the local angling club and North Tyneside Council, Christmas trees will be collected by the council at sites around the district for a limited time. The […]

SHOREGet Down To The DowniesJohn Findlay Follows top Scottish match angler Alan Combe during a roving match in search of cod.The Snake CharmersThere’s always a chance that you’ll hook into a conger while fishing for cod, as Terry Thomas finds out.Chancing It At ChesilDave Barham visits Chesil Beach in Dorset – Boy, what a session.Amazing […]

AN intrepid band of internet brothers from Anglingforums and Total-Fishing joined up for a New Year Match on Bala.The idea of this match was first started on both site’s forums but despite fearing the worst weather Bala Lake could throw at them, the brave anglers went ahead with their plans on the 3rd January.Mark Turner had flown […]

THERE may be light at the end of the tunnel for fishery owners and clubs whose waters have been plagued by fish munching cormorants for years.Under a bizarre European ruling which most experts accept was a mistake, the thriving Carbo Sinensis species of cormorant which is now very common in the UK is a protected species. […]

A HANDFUL of original strips of the classic angling cartoon Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing have been found by a Daily Mirror journalist at the paper’s London offices. It had been thought that all of Bernard Venables drawing had been destroyed in the 1940s, until they turned up in a clear out of drawers. The lucky […]

THE help of the public is being sought by the Environment Agency which is investigating an oil spill in Braintree in the early hours of Sunday morning.Diesel fuel polluted two kilometres of the River Blackwater and Agency officers have had to put booms in the water to contain and absorb as much oil as possible. 40-50 […]

Official Anglers Say Response:Angler’s say has come under several attacks since its launch late Novemberthis year. All have been unsuccessful.The situation that came about today was not due to a security issue atAnglers Say side but an attack on our hosts servers, a roaming hackersscript which randomly seeks root level access to Linux servers, then […]

THIS is just a quick update on the progress of the new Total-Fishing Club site, which we were hoping to go live with in the New Year. As is the way with these things, there have been delays caused partly by ‘coding issues’ and partly by the main web man, Neptune, falling ill to a […]

RADIO and TV angling pundit and Total-Fishing regular Keith Arthur will be making the live draw for the Anglers Say Shimano reel competition on his Talk Sport Fisherman’s Blues programme on Sunday 21 December.For those who don’t listen in to Talk Sport, it can be found at 1052 & 1089 am and Fisherman’s Blues is on early […]

MORE than 1230 anglers entered the brand new Builder Center/NFA Team Knockout Competition and just 39 teams have survived to compete in the semi-finals on Saturday, April 3, 2004. “There has been some spills, hiccups and tears along the way, but no-one can deny that team knockout competitions create a great atmosphere and bonding amongst […]

CORMORANTS are an outstanding success story.  At a point of such critical decline in the 70s that they were placed on the protected species list, there is now a winter population of over 23,000 in the UK alone – and that’s the problem.Their food is fish – including endangered species such as salmon, bullheads, lampreys […]