RMC Angling is to ban the use of carp sacks after a 30-year-old fish was found dead in one this week, total-fishing.com can reveal.It would appear that the sack wasn’t secured correctly and the fish was able to swim away in the sack, eventually starving to death.The fish was one of Yateley’s original stock and […]

Sea match round-upBIGGEST shore match of the week was Shiremouth and District’s Annual open, which took place between Amble Pier and Tynemouth Pier and attracted and excellent turn out of 372, incidentally far more than any coarse fishing match over the weekend.You needed peeler crab to be up there and that was the bait Whitley […]

AN English angler has beaten the Welsh boat caught bass record with a near 17-pounder taken off Llantwit Major.Fishing a legered pilchard during a trip aboard his own boat, Trowbridge, Wilts rod Barry Turk hooked into a massive fish which took the scales round to a whopping 16lb 14oz. The fish, which was beaten on a 12lb […]

IT’S clearly the month of the club angler as following last week’s capture of a record breaking barbel on the Royalty stretch of the Hants Avon in a club match, another one on the Ouse has produced a monster chub weighing 7lb 6oz.Terry Noble of Vauxhall AC knew he had drawn a noted chub peg in the match […]

A PIKE angler watched in horror as £3000 and the European Pike Angling Championships slipped through his fingers.Alcester, Warks based Kevin Roads hooked and boated a fine fish estimated at 22lb during the event on Ireland’s Lough Derg.But just as he went to weigh the fish, which would have given him an untouchable lead in the prestigious […]

THE Carp Society’s flagship water, Horseshoe Lake in the Cotswolds, has produced a new lake record of 40lb 14oz to Joe Easton. The fish came from the Sandbags swim in the deeper ‘Winter Bay‘ half of the lake, which is known for its stocks of Leney carp. Meanwhile news reaches us that RMC’s Amwell Lake, […]

THE zander at Bury Hill fisheries have gone into something of a feeding frenzy, with no less than 12 into double figures reported in the last week!Best fish reported to Total-Fishing is a magnificent stillwater fish of 15lb 10oz taken from peg 11, and in addition to the glut of doubles there have also been […]

RICHWORTH consultant Ron Buss has set a new record for Unity Lake at the popular Oxfordshire day ticket venue Linear Fisheries. Ron caught a 32lb 6oz mirror carp, known as the ‘Pretty One’, using Richworth Tutti Frutti boilies fished snowman style. Meanwhile Daren Henning, an installation supervisor from Derbyshire, is over the moon after catching […]

The Environment Agency is urging anglers to add logbooks to their kit as part of a major fish recording project.The Agency’s National Salmon and Trout Fisheries Centre (NSTFC) wants to hear from people interested in participating in a national logbook recording scheme for grayling.The aim of the project – run in conjunction with the Grayling […]

YATELEY’S Sandhurst Lake in Hampshire has received a significant boost to its carp stocks thanks to 30 fish to 33lb. The fish were sourced during a netting operation on an RMC stock pond.In total the 12-acre Sandhurst Lake now holds some 450 carp with an ever-increasing number of 20lb specimens present. The growth rate of […]

 HAYLING Island angler and www.total-fishing.com regular Adrian Farley was so pleased with this cod he took he wanted us to post it on his favourite website.The 18lb 2oz fish is a personal best from the beach and was tempted from virtually outside Adrian’s back door at Eastoke Corner, the lucky fella. He caught it at […]

SKOL MASTERS GRAND FINAL AND FESTIVAL REPORTDARREN COX enjoyed the birthday of a lifetime winning the White Acres Skol masters 12-angler grand final in a dramatic end to clinch the winner-takes-all  £25,000 big prize cheque!Jenny’s Lake on the Cornish holiday park provided a thrilling and evenly poised fishing match in which the identity of the […]

THE barbel record on the famous Royalty stretch of the Hampshire Avon that has stood firm since 1937 has finally been beated by a 14lb 8oz cracker.And amazingly the fish fell to a match angler who was feeder fising in a 25-peg knock up!Bromley, Kent angler John O’Halloran drew a swim known as Fiddler’s West, and […]

THE EA have announced that the price of your fishing licence is to go up another £1 from April. It will see the cost of a full licence rise to £22 from April 2003 and the cost will go up another £1 for the next two years as well. The junior licence stays at £5 […]

THE Carp Society’s main event of the year – the Winter Show – will take place at Sandown Park Racecourse Exhibition Centre, Esher, Surrey on Sunday 1 December.There will be some 2000 square metres of exhibition space displaying and retailing the latest tackle and bait, plus stands from leading holiday companies and of course a bar […]