THE owners of Essex venue Crowsheath Fishery have decide that the only way they are going to get people onto their banks while the World Cup is on is to show every game in their clubhouse.So they are getting a 60 inch TV screen and mega sound system so anglers can enjoy the game with […]

EIGHT anglers who tried to avoid paying £21 for rod licences have received fines and costs of up to £230 at Dartford Magistrates’ Court.The prosecutions were the result of checks in the Dartford area in February and March and come as we await the results of a publicised nationwide blitz on illegal fishing last weekend. […]

A North Sea trawler skipper and his crew had a shock when they fished up what appears to be part of a human skull. The boat’s skipper immediately made radio contact with police and the skull was handed over when the trawler docked at Eyemouth on Sunday. The find was made as the vessel, ‘Bonaventure’ […]

AS football fever approaches fever pitch, the Environment Agency is cashing in by relaunching an ad campaign starring England World Cup winner Jack Charlton.Jack, who won the World Cup with England in 1966 and became a national hero in Ireland when he steered the team to victory over Italy in the USA tournament, is a […]

MEPs have approved a recommendation calling for a Europe wide ‘management plan’ for cormorants following a meeting in Strasbourg with the European Anglers Alliance (EAA), a body which claims to represent 18 million anglers across the continent.The recommendation included a proposal to add the bird to the Iist of the ‘huntable species’. While a long way […]

A seventeen year old boy spoke excitedly to his parents about catching his first ever 20lb carp, just hours before he died on the bankside.James Farrow, 17, caught the personal best 22lb carp from Snetterton Lakes near Attleborough, Norfolk on at 5pm Saturday and called his family on his mobile phone to tell them, before […]

Bedforshire’s noted bream water Brogborough Pit has thrown up a new venue record at 16lb 9oz. The fish is said to have been in immaculate condition and was previously uncaught. But the angler wants to keep fishing the swim for an even bigger bream and so is keeping mum about which swim he caught it from… […]

Zander anglers are up in arms after a West Midlands angler fishing a private stretch of the River Severn in the close season caught and killed a spawnbound 17lb 8oz zander.The angler, Halesowen’s Christopher Charles, listed the catch date as March 30, two weeks after the rivers officially shut down to coarse angling.He caught the […]

Robert Harman, who runs popular West Sussex match venue Stubpond Fishery, has pledged to shave his head in the hope of raising over £1000 for the charity Child Victims of Crime.And he’s not alone, because he’s persuaded his son Simon and pal Peter Upperton, who has had a beard for 20 years, to join in […]

The Environment Agency has promised its biggest ever clampdown on licence dodging this weekend (May 25/26) after a check in the south of England revealed one in ten were fishing illegally.The EA says licence dodging is costing them over £1million a year, and have also said those found guilty will face hefty penalties. Another swoop […]

 An eight man team averaging 67 years old put one over on the young ‘uns in the weekend’s Starlets Vets Team Challenge.Four teams of eight, two from the Starlets Vets and two from the Middy Central match team, went head to head at Midlands water Blythe Waters, Solihull in what will now be an annual event.Keith […]

CARL Lowe launched a brilliant carp blitz in the last hour as he joined forces with Martin Howcroft to capture the £6,000 first prize in the final of the £21,000 Embassy Challenge, the world’s No.1 pairs event, in Spain at the weekend.Lowe, a 32-year-old fishing tackle shop manager from Farnworth, Bolton, and Howcroft, 40, and […]

Bookies’ favourites Daiwa Dorking showed a touch of class to win the prestigious Drennan Super League final, fished at White Acres and Gwinear in Cornwall over the weekend.Going into day two with only a one point lead over fancied Keenets North West, the Surrey side hit the accelerator and romped home seven points clear and […]

The appearance of Bluebell Lakes’ big common at 55lb 14oz for Pro-Tek Baits boss John Cooper has made him the first angler to land four 50lb plus UK carp. And what makes the achievement even more remarkable is that the Coleshill, Warks angler has had all of them in the last six months!Benson fell during a night […]

Some of the biggest fish in Essex carp syndicate The Arena have died in what’s thought to be a case of Spring Carp Mortality Syndrome. Over 125 fish, averaging over 20lb and up to 37lb, have already died as Environment Agency bosses examine carcuses to confirm the disease.Among those found dead are a mirror called Orange […]