REPORTS are coming in thick and fast of quality cod showing from noted marks around the country.Biggest fish from the boat is a 31-pounder, taken from a mark a mile off the Needles, IOW aboard the Keyhaven based boat ‘Seaquest’. The lucky angler at the end of the rod was Southampton’s Mark Knight, who Pennel […]

Specialist Martin Bowler has banked one of the biggest barbel ever from the Bristol Avon at 15lb 2oz.The former British record holder took the mighty fish, which is among the top five of all time from the tough venue, during heavy flood conditions using clock leads to hold bottom and using boilies on the hook. It capped […]

AN English angler fishing under the guidance of Fishing Adventures Thailand has bagged a potential world record Mekong catfish, would you know. Paul Carbis took the strange-looking fish, which is pictured in this week’s Angling Times, and weighed 95lb 14oz, from Bungsam Lan lake in Thailand.The fish was over five feet long and had a […]

The River Thames has continued its fantastic run of big chub with a 7lb 5oz lump to Londoner Ted Bryan.The 45-year-old took the fish, plus others of 4lb 14oz and 5lb 6oz, from the river below Oxford on boilies fished in conjunction with a PVA bag of crushed boilies. He used a 3oz semi fixed […]

Maver Club Angler of the YearPoints table to Nov 26, 2002NB Our software only allows us to load down to 120 points at present – but we’re working on it!430Mick Ribbons      Market Harborough Disabled Anglers 390 D Smith     Mitchel & Darfield AC  370 Roy Dermont Norwest Disabled AA  350 Tony Clark  MPOSSA AC   340  John […]

ANGLING will have strong representation with Government as the great cormorant debate enters a critical new stage.At an Angling Summit in Whitehall last week, leading lights from the Joint Angling Governing Bodies – which represents coarse, sea and game angling interests – were told that they would be playing a central role in a new […]

THE owners of a popular angling lodge have been fined a whopping $10,000 for having too many fish in their freezer!Booi’s Wilderness Lodge and Outposts Ltd of Ontario, USA was slapped with a $7,000 for having ‘an overlimit’ of zander at the lodge and an additional $1,000 for ‘possessing fish in a manner that the […]

THREE projects to help develop angling opportunities in South West Wales are underway, and there are more to follow say Environment Agency Wales. The first of these projects involves plans to improve facilities in Port Talbot docks, Swansea Enterprise Park and at Kenfig Pool. The projects are part of the Agency’s local contribution to work […]

FIVE anglers fished for three hours to take an astonishing 1,411lb of conger eels, while fishing from Alan Bennett’s Plymouth-based charter boat ‘Vagabond’.The biggest of the day was this massive 93lb 1oz specimen, which was taken by 32-year-old Mark Nelson from Mountain Ash, Mid-Glamorgan. Mark, whose previous best eel was a 60lb beast, used 50lb-class […]

England International George Smith beat off some stiff competition to win the prestigious 2002 NFSA Guernsey National Shore Championship, which were held on the picturesque island of Herm in the Channel Islands.The Championship final saw the heat winners from all over England competing for the coveted Guernsey Sweater and the title of NFSA Guernsey National […]

EUROPEAN Commission officials are desperately seeking alternatives to a decimation of the North Sea’s commercial fishing community, after their scientists advised a one year ban on cod fishing. The Commission’s scientific committee has now been charged to come up with a fresh plan that will form the basis for discussions at the fisheries council at […]

BRITISH Disabled Angling Association officials put their call for a more inclusive and fraud free concessionary licence for disabled people to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Elliot Morley MP., at a specially arranged meeting at Whitehall.With the backing of the Environment Agency, the British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) delegation of Director Peter […]

THE Carp Society has strengthened its governing body by recruiting Mark Gregory and RMC boss Ian Welch to the board of directors. A spokeman said: “Mark brings a high degree of integrity and skill to the society from his wide and varied role as an office in the South Yorkshire Police. “Mark has also been instrumental in […]

SOME of the top specialists in the Midlands have seen a roach they consider to be ‘way over’ the long standing British record of 4lb 3oz.The monster fish, which is thought to be approaching 5lb, is not a resident of the much talked about Linch Hill Fishery in Oxfordshire. Instead the fish has been spotted […]

ONE of the Midlands’ top match outfits, MAP Garbolino Starlets, shone in the Sensas European Challenge All Winners Final on Luxembourg’s River Moselle.Starlets had qualified by coming through a series of teams of five fish-offs over the last few months, seeing off outfits from right around the country to win the chance to represent the UK […]