The Benelux King of Clubs match, which attracts competitors from Holland and Belgium to Ireland, was fished on the Shannon at Portumna over four days last week from Monday May 6-9.  This competition was initiated back in 1993 to stimulate the promotion of Irish angling in the Benelux countries right down to the club angler. All Benelux angling […]

Linear Fisheries’ Gaunts Lake has produced a new lake record carp in the shape of a 37lb 12oz mirror caught by Ian Day. He was using Richworth Multiplex boilies on the hook along with broken boilies and pellets in PVA bags at the Oxfordshire day ticket venue.Ian, a degree student at Sparsholt College on work experience at […]

Casting ace Danny Moeskops was on fire at the United Kingdom Surfcasting Federation event in Huntingdon, Cambs, breaking two world records in two casts.First the beefy Belgian launched a 150gr lead a whopping 275.63 metres using 0.31mm line for a new best mark.Then on the next cast he switched to a 125gr lead, and walloped that […]

Lavensheath Reservoir near Colchester, a water with no known big eel form, has thrown up a monstrous fish of 9lb 4oz to shell shocked matchman Bob Hewint.And what makes the Conard, Suffolk angler’s catch more amazing is that he caught it during a match on a small piece of breadflake intended for small tench…. and […]

Stoneacres Lake on the prolific Linch Hill complex in Oxfordshire has hit what may be it best ever bream form, with a string of fish over 13lb.Topping the list is Coventry’s respected specialist Phil Smith, who beat his long standing personal best with a 16-pounder, plus four more between 14lb and 14lb 11oz. Phil had […]

Monday May 20 sees a historic meeting taking place at Westminster, London between the National Angling Alliance, the Angling Trades Association, the Environment Agency and government officials. Among those in attendance will be new National Federation of Anglers head Bob Clark and Labour MP and keen coarse angler Martin Salter. Martin, MP for Reading West, has […]

White Acres Holiday Park near Newquay, Cornwall is well known for establishing the Cornish festival scene and now bosses there intend to revolutionise the way pools money is distributed in matches.The holiday park management acknowledge that patrons who take part in the weekly residents matches vary in terms of abilities and experience, yet traditional pools money structures are geared […]

On a recent video shoot the well respected Kent carp catcher, Lee Jackson, shocked cameraman Len Gurd, when he hooked and landed a very big carp from a secret Cambridge water. Lee was at the water with big carp ace Terry Hearn for a video shoot. Len Gurd the cameraman was in the midst of […]

Big carp catcher and regular contributor to Advanced Carp Fishing, Jim Shelley has been at it again. Not content with his recent capture of the mighty ‘Shoulders’, from Horton, at 45lb 5oz, Jim tackled the ultra hard, 90 acre Fen Drayton in Cambridgeshire for a feature shoot and nailed one of the big commons at […]

Conference has voted to keep president Ken Ball at the helm of the National Federation of Anglers for a little while longer yet.Delegates awarded Ken, who has already run the show for 10 years, nearly 70 per cent of the vote. His rival for the post, Geoff Bibby, received 32 per cent of votes cast. Ken will […]

It was caught by chance, just like the British record perch taken only a few weeks ago. And like that historic fish, it was taken by a shoolboy.Stories like the capture of a magnificent 9lb 8oz eel from day ticket water Swan Lake near Skegness are all that’s needed to remind us just how unpredictable, […]

Two huge ling weighing in at 88lb 5oz and 81lb 10oz have been landed by two anglers fishing a patch of rough ground off Shetland. The two fish could hammer the current British record of 59lb 8oz by over 30 per cent.At the time of writing a claim had been submitted to the British Record […]

OXFORDSHIRE’S day ticket Linear Fisheries has hit what may be its best ever form, with a string of magnificent specimen fish being taken in the last month. Top carp anglers like Nick Helleur and new Shimano signing Ian Poole have been bagging up to eight 20lb plus fish in a session, with fish to 35lb […]

THE best match anglers in the Midlands are sharpening their hooks in readiness for one of the biggest prizes in match fishing. The final of the Ultimate League takes place over two days at the start of June, with the 40 best anglers from both Hallcroft and Moorlands Farm fisheries going head to head for […]

MIDLAND Angler editor Gareth Purnell said he was ‘pleased as punch’ after hearing his title had been voted Angling Magazine of the Year by the Angling Writers’ Association.A re-launch of the magazine that was the official publication of the Birmingham Anglers Association in the 1950s, 1950s and 1960s, the all-new version hit the market late […]