Tight Lines this week… Friday 29th April            7:30pm Sky Sports 2Repeated:                     11:00pm Sky Sports 2Sat.      2:30am Sky Sports 28:00am Sky Sports 4 Keith will be joined by good friend and all-rounder Nigel Botherway. They’ll be looking ahead to some warm weather carping with stalking action from Dave Lane, looking back at a day’s shark fishing from […]

A new face for the final this year is Chris Kendall, (Yorkshire Anglers and Maggotdrowning.com) a Recruitment Consultant from Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Chris an internet era match angler, better known as ‘Hatman’ in the world of fishing forums was showing as third place on the reserve list on the day, and was lucky enough to […]

Guru/Bait Tech matchman, Tony Curd a painter by profession from London is the second angler to qualify for the Fish ‘O’ Mania XVIII Grand Final at Cudmore Fisheries after a magnificient win at Makins Fishery, Warwickshire on Wednesday 20th April 2011. This will be Tony’s second chance at a shot at the prestigious Fish ‘O’ […]

Go-ahead bait company Willyworms is offering all Total-Fishing.com users 10% off online orders, with the use of a simple code.Willyworms specialises in worms for anglers at great prices, and now is also bringing other baits like pellets, groundbait and additives to the angling market.The famous Willyworms dendrobaenas are available in small, medium and large, plus […]

Tackle shop Benwicks is responding to customer feedback by reducing the cost of ordering groundbait, pellets and hook pellets online. Traditionally anglers have been loath to include groundbait and pellets in particular into online orders because of weights and high postage costs. However, with many anglers now having to make relatively long journeys to their nearest […]

Anglers have welcomed the news that Draycote reservoir near Rubgy will be opening for fly-fishing again in the 2011 season under the experienced management of Ifor Jones who already operates Foremark and Thornton reservoirs as popular trout fisheries. Ifor’s tender was Severn Trent’s preferred bid and he told the Angling Trust:“I will be encouraging young […]

Specimen hunter Ashley Burton hit the jackpot when took a trip down south to fish Orchid Lakes in Oxfordshire. On his first ever visit to the venue, he slipped the landing net under this magnificent personal best catfish weighing a whopping 46lb 8oz. The venue was recommended to former Midlands Specialist Angler of the Year […]

The Angling Trust invites Anglers with Disabilities to take part in trials to be considered for the England team. The trials for Anglers with Disabilities will take place at Packington Somers Fisheries, Somers Road, Meriden, CV7 7PL on Saturday 21st May 2011. Packington Somers Fisheries is considered one of the most successful and varied commercial […]

The Angling Trust is looking for talented young anglers who would like to trial out for the U18s and U22s Youth trials which will be taking place at the end of May.Application forms have been sent to all who fished in trials last year, and are also available on the Angling Trust website at www.anglingtrust.net […]

Friday 22nd April             7:00pm Sky Sports 2Repeated:                     10:00pm Sky Sports 2Sat.      2:00am Sky Sports 24:30am Sky Sports 47:00am Sky Sports 4 Keith will be going solo in a busy show in which he’ll be looking back on ‘the one that got away’ during his trip to the Florida Keys last year as well as a […]

Cornerstone AC Open MatchGrand Union Canal, Small Heath, Birmingham With a club match taking up half the stretch, pegs were a bit tighter than normal.But the stretch held up very well with five double figures bags for the 25-strong field, and the top ten all weighing in over 8lb.Dave Brown drew peg 47 where he […]

Aussie Total-Fishing.com member Dara Finnigan has set a new Australian match record in the country’s Trans Tasmanian series fished over two days on Lake Hume in New South Wales. Dara weighed in a massive 157.5kg of carp and wild hybrids, fishing pole shallow at 9m and using form and pellet.Amazingly that wasn’t enough to win […]

 Cleveland match angler James Dent has been snapped up by the growing Bag‘em Matchbaits stable. The 19-year-old from Cleveland is already a member of the prestigious Ultimate Vision Barnsley Blacks Team, has won a White Acres festival and is also sponsored individually by MAP. “I started fishing at the age of 11, going with my […]

Fish Legal is celebrating with local protestors on the Isle of Lewis following the Western Isles Council’s (“Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar”) refusal of planning permission for a salmon farm in Broad Bay near Stornoway, one of the last pristine bays on the island to be free of fish farms. The application for planning permission was […]

Pic : Coventry’s Jon Arthur broke the Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifying record at Viaduct Fishery. Jon Arthur Smashes Fish ‘O’ Mania record The first name to be added to the eventual sixteen targeting the £30,000 first prize in the Fish ‘O’ Mania XVIII final on Saturday 16th July 2011 is Coventry’s Jon Arthur. The 35-year-old, […]