The Environment Agency is getting into the festive spirit by providing stocking fillers for anglers as its staff restock rivers with thousands of fish in the run up to Christmas. The restocking activity is part of an annual programme, funded by income from rod licence sales. Calverton fish farm, the Environment Agency’s specialist fish breeding […]
Environment Agency offers stocking fillers for anglers over the festive season
World Lure Championships to be held on Rutland Water in 2018
The Angling Trust has announced that England will host the 11th FIPS-ed Carnivorous Artificial Bait Boat Angling Championships in 2018. The competition will head to the British Isles for the second time in three years following the successful 2016 world championship which was held in Ireland. The four day event will be held on Rutland […]
LureFest 2017 Tickets On Sale Online from the Angling Trust
LureFest 2017 launches today 30/08/2017 so click HERE to sign up for your chance to win up to £7000* in prize money. The boat pairs contest will be held across England’s premier reservoir fisheries with three qualifiers and a grand final at the prestigious Grafham Water on the 15th October. The contest will be based […]
40lb pike from Scotland’s Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond in Scotland has produced one of its biggest ever pike in the shape of this magnificent 40lb 5oz fish to Glasgow based predator specialist Andrew Carson. The PAC member, who has fished the 24-miles long venue for some 30 years, was tackling the daunting venue in high winds with lures, tempting the big […]
Huge 3lb 5oz roach falls to carp angler’s ‘wafter’
Highbridge Fisheries in Norfolk has thrown up another of its giant roach, this 3lb 5oz beauty which fell to a carp angler. Sean Jackson was fishing a shrimp flavoured 15mm ‘wafter’ bait and had just cast out after landing a double figure carp when the big redfin, thought to be one of the biggest caught […]
Kayak angler lands 32lb pike at Pitsford Water
Dane Wood set the predator grapevine buzzing with this superb 32lb 6oz pike from Anglian Water’s Pitsford Reservoir. A full account of Dane’s exciting day’s Kayak fishing with lures at Pitsford can be viewed here https://oceankayakukfishingteam.wordpress.com/ Pic: Dane Wood
The Crucian Chronicle marks the start of Catch A Crucian Carp Month
Picture: Members of the Association of Crucian Anglers launching their new Ezine ‘The Crucian Chronicle’ to mark the start of Catch a Crucian Month at their Marsh Farm fishery. Crucian carp enthusiasts from all over the country gathered this week at Godalming Angling Society’s famous Marsh Farm fishery to officially launch this year’s Catch a […]
Suffolk Lake produces massive roach just 1oz under the British record
Norwich angler Ken Fuller has banked the biggest roach from England in living memory and a fish just an ounce below the British record at 4lb 3oz. The truly magnificent fish, reported in Angler’s Mail this week, came from Homersfield Lake in Suffolk, a water where roach seemed to have thrived on bait put in […]
Phil Smith bags his ninth 15lb bream
Phil Smith hasn’t lost the thirst for specimen coarse fish despite a list of personal bests that virtually any other angler in the UK could only dream of. His latest triumph came during a three-night session on a stillwater in the Midlands that marked the start of his spring campaign, and produced bream of 13lb […]
Huge Derwent perch to former Division One National winner
The River Derwent has produced a magnificent perch weighing 4lb 10oz 12dr to a former match angler who once won the Division One National. Tony Hopley, who won the gold medal at the blue riband event for team match anglers in 2003, banked a 3lb 8oz stripey from the river last year and has been […]
Huge roach from tiny stream realises lifetime ambition for Mike Davison
Drennan sales representative and big fish angler Mike Davidson landed this fish of a lifetime after making a last minute decision to fish a local chalk stream. “Recently I was lucky enough to achieve a lifetime ambition of mine by catching my first 3lb roach from a river,” said Mike. “It weighed in at 3lb […]
UK Crucian Waters: The Catalogue
The weather or time of year might not be quite suitable for catching crucians in misty, weed fringed ponds but members of the National Crucian Conservation Project have been using the break from fishing for their favourite species to pull together a catalogue of known crucian waters in the UK. The list attempts to grade […]
Giant 3lb 11oz roach from Highbridge Fisheries
Norfolk’s Highbridge Fisheries – famed for its elusive specimen roach – has thrown up another of her giants in the shape of this beautiful 3lb 11oz redfin to big fish ace Dan Woolcott. The Kent angler, who had spent long hours mapping the venue out when the water was low in summer, baited up with hemp, […]
18-pounder guides Andrew Muirhead to the British Pike Champs Final
The Angling Trust British Pike Final on Saturday 12th November 2016 was once again held on the 20ft River and Glassmore Bank sections of Whittlesey AA’s waters near Peterborough, Cambs. This unique event saw anglers in an effort to take, not only the coveted title but a share of the prize and pools money for […]
Grafham Water produces biggest zander of the season at 19lb 3oz
Some big zander have been coming out of Grafham Water in the last few weeks but none bigger than this 19lb 3oz beauty to Will Matthews. Will and his boat partner were looking at a blank after having no luck on either lures or deadbaits when the fish, the biggest zander of the season from […]
