MIDLAND Angler’s Birmingham Angler’s Association columnist, Stuart Bloor, took this cracking 13lb 11oz barbel during a session on the lower River Severn at Worcester this week. Stuart has been fishing the area regularly since the start of the season, and tempted the personal best by fishing a hair rigged boilie a third of the way […]

Environment Agency fishing figures for the first part of the year show adult rod licence sales up by 22 per cent on 2001, junior licences up 33 per cent and evasion rates in the latest blitz down 1.1 per cent on the previous month. Internet sales leapt by 280 per cent over this period, a […]

Flounder angler Gerald Taplin got more than he bargained for during a session on Walton Pier when a record rocking 51lb stingray picked up his his ragworm rig and head south at a rate of knots. Yet despite only fishing size 1 hooks on a two hook paternoster rig and 15lb line, he managed to […]

Momentum gathered earlier this year towards the creation of a National Centre of Excellence at Nottingham’s Holme Pierrepont has been slowed to a halt after Sport England representative, George Akins, effectively branded angling a second rate sport.Pierrepont’s rowing course and the nearby Water Ski Lagoon and Winfield Pool had all been touted as ideal sites […]

Angling is to play a part in the build up to the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Manchester in the form of a new 300-peg ‘Aquafest’ match.The National Federation of Anglers has teamed up with British Waterways and the Environment Agency to promote the so called ‘Aquafest’ Championship, which will net the individual winner a cool […]

After rejecting Britain’s rivers out of hand because of the deterioration in sport, Drennan England’s coaches Mark Downes and Mark Addy have chosen Furzton Lake in Milton Keynes, Bucks to stage the Six Nations Championships on Saturday and Sunday August 10/11.Following several trials, including those to decide the England junior team, the two Marks agreed […]

World champions England are breaking with tradition and taking a squad of seven to Portugal in a bid to retain the gold so valiantly won on the banks of France’s River Seine last year. The 48th World Championships is being fished on the River Mondego in Portugal on September 14/15, and coaches Mark Downes and […]

A German angler was left open jawed after slipping the landing net under a 6lb South American PIRANHA while fishing a river near Heidelberg.The two foot long razor toothed fish, which police said must have been a pet which had out-grown its tank, was lured from the River Neckar to the west of the town.A […]

Following months of negotiation, Bury Hill Fisheries is pleased to announce details of a new lake situated close to Esher, Surrey for night fishing. An historic six acre lake set in magnificent landscaped gardens, the 200 hundred year old lake which is owned by the National Trust has never been fished before and under the […]

Glenn Lawrence recorded a tremendous double success when he and his new angling partner, John Dunnil, landed the top spot at the weekend with 499 points in the fourth qualifying round of the £21,000 Embassy Challenge on the Trader and Hobhole Drains in Lincolnshire. Lawrence, a 39-year-old electrician from Barnsley, who competes for Van Den […]

Moray eel and sand tiger sharks will be among the main attractions when Europe’s deepest aquarium tank opens in Plymouth, Devon on Saturday. Lifesize whales will also form part of the £4million development. The new Mediterranean Tank at the National Marine Aquarium (pictured) will home hundreds of species of fish and gives anglers the chance […]

Youngsters hooked on fishing could net themselves a prize in an Environment Agency-sponsored national angling championships.Castaway 2002 is one of the largest youth angling events in the UK, organised by the National Association of Clubs for Young People and hosted by the Doncaster and District Angling Association.The event takes place over the weekend of July […]

A massive bream weighing 22lb 6oz has been washed up on the shores of Oxfordshire trout reservoir Farmoor No1.The fish is the biggest ever seen in this country, although they are known to grow to that size in some Scandanavian countries.The bream, found by warden Chris Slade, was spawnbound but weighed nearly 4lb over the […]

European Championships reportDespite boasting two section winners and finishing just five points off the gold medal position on Day One, Drennan England could only finish fifth in the European Championships fished on the Prince Albert Canal in Leige, Belgium at the weekend. The host country were convincing winners in the end, with 42.5 points on […]

Joiner John Harris made the long drive from his home county of Essex to Gwynedd in Wales more than worthwhile with a monster shore caught tope weighing 37lb.The Dovercourt angler was acting on a tip-off from Pwllheli tackle shop D&E Hughes, who told him the area had been producing big tope at night. John baited […]