The Angling Trust’s Anglers with Disabilities England Team took part in the 12th Freshwater World Championships on 7th & 8th August 2010 in France. Joe Roberts squad were hoping to improve on last year’s bronze medal position, but crashed to one of their worse results for many years. In the teams defence the venue proved […]

Rumours are rife that another famous carp, known as the ‘The Black Mirror’ – has died. If confirmed that news comes within a week of the death of the record breaking ‘Two Tone’ which hit the national press.  The distinctive and mugh sought after Black Mirror really came to the fore in 1992 when caught […]

Britain’s biggest angling festival takes place on the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham over the August Bank Holiday weekend, with organisers anticipating in excess of 50,000 visitors over the three days. The Evesham Festival is a three-day angling extravaganza with many extra attractions, and from its humble beginnings after starting back in 1978 it has grown […]

A perfect two section wins secured Bag ‘Em sponsored anglers, Neil Machin and Andy Moors the 2010 Maver British Pole Championships. Fifty six pairs took part and former Matchmen of the Year Neil and Andy won £1500 and a Maver 361 pole each worth £2000 a piece after being the only pairing to post a […]

Mark Barnes has fished since the age of six and started match fishing at the age of eleven. He was there at the zenith of match fishing when 100 peg sell-out opens were the norm and even club matches attracted coach-loads of eager competitors. With low prize-payouts and costly outlays, it’s difficult to attract the […]

Top UK angling website Total-Fishing.com is delighted to announce all time record traffic figures.Over the period July 17th to August 16th 2010, over 40,000 unique users visited the website, which carries news, tackle reviews, articles and has a very busy forum. The 40,000 anglers came from 102,000 visits which in turn produced nearly 635,000 page […]

As part of a wider social media marketing strategy, fishing tackle brands Hardy, Greys and Chub are now on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The Facebook pages are listed below and each link to the appropriate YouTube and Twitter accounts.Hardy and Greys marketing executive Cat McGinty explains ”Facebook is a great space in which to reach […]

Penarth angler Bobby Tripp was knocked flat after landing a near Welsh record Dover sole while fishing at Jacksons Point, Barry, Total-Fishing.com can exclusively report. The 4lb fish came in the early evening three hours before high tide and fell to ragworm, fished on a custom-built Century Tip Tornedo rod, size 4/0 Uptide Z Viking […]

The final round of the Preston Innovations backed UK Angling Championship saw a shock as Midlander Grant Albutt stole the prestigious UK Champs title from under the noses of long odds-on favourites Pete Bailey and Darren Cox. The pair had a three and four point advantage respectively going into the last round at Barston Lakes. […]

Warwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry65 pegs Barbel back on top!        After a roach dominated previous few results, it was all change at this match, which saw two double figure barbel secure the top places.                    At Peg 15 Daiwa Dorking team man Dave Harpin added a double figure pellet caught fish to […]

Warwickshire Avon – Evesham Town Waters and Hampton Ferry65 pegs Narrow victory for Sam!   A gin clear and slowly rising River Avon threw up a very close result list at the latest Evesham Festival Saturday fixture which was won at downstream Hampton Ferry peg 75 by Maver Barnsley team man Sam Wildsmith.Working with a long […]

Irish Catch of the Week goes to Mark Sweeney, who caught and released this 20lb salmon on the River Boyne. The River Boyne has always been noted for its big salmon and this cracker put up a tremendous fight. Mark got a couple of quick snaps before returning the fish, which swam away strongly. If […]

Web-based angling TV channel OnlineFishing.tv is launching a new ‘Freeplayer’ with over 90 minutes of free-to-watch programmes online. The Freeplayer, which went live this week at www.onlinefishing.tv/freeplayer and will change every two weeks, includes a cocktail of extended clips from its 300+ shows, some complete programmes, tips, interviews and tackle-based videos made specifically for the […]

“ 1000 sharks tagged in Scottish waters by sea anglers in less than one year. ” The Scottish Shark Tagging Programme (SSTP) which is run by the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN) has recently logged its 1000 fish, a major landmark for the new tagging programme. The 1000th fish, was a 73 pound tope […]

Natural England’s Marine Director, James Marsden, took a crash course in sea angling on July 28th when he took to the Blackwater estuary in Essex for a day’s charter boat fishing with the Angling Trust.Mr Marsden, who is responsible for overseeing the delivery of the Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) project in England, joined a party […]