The England Youth U22s were well represented in this year’s World Championships in Mantova, Italy on 24th & 25th July, scooping team Bronze, with Matt Godfrey taking the Individual Silver. The venue was technically very difficult and the correct balance between big carp, catfish and bream had to be found, with the big shoals of […]

The box has internal flip-top lids and secure outer fastening, and is perfect for all your smaller rig bits. There are four colours out there on the shelves, so you might like to get more from the set. You could then colour-code to organise your kit: RED for float bits, GREEN for leger bits, BLUE […]

Following the recent death of North Staffordshire match angling legend Jeff Moors a memorial match to honour Jeff will be held at Border Fisheries Nr Crewe Cheshire (CW2 5QA) on Saturday 18th September 2010. The draw will take place on the Meridian complex at 9am and fishing will be from 10.30am to 3.30pm. Jeff had […]

The Angling Trust and the CLA Game Fair are delighted to announce that Peter Rolfe is the winner of the first Fred J Taylor Award for Environmental Stewardship in the world of Angling.  Peter was selected for his work over nearly four decades studying and conserving crucian carp, a species which has suffered a dramatic […]

With Solihull’s Barston Lakes in excellent form at the moment, the venue’s annual Barston Bowl was a 110-peg sell-out several weeks ago.With every peg on the Big Lake in, the weights were down from the previous day’s Maver Pairs match, with saw five ton-up weights come from the lake, with current UK Champion Tommy Pickering […]

Budding trout anglers are being offered the chance to ‘have a go’ at fly tying or fly fishing for free as part of Anglian Water’s contribution to National Fishing Month. Pitsford Water has already seen qualified instructors offering their expertise to newcomers, and now it’s the turn of Grafham Water this Friday (July 30th) and […]

The Angling Trust has learnt that DEFRA and the Environment Agency (EA) last year accidentally abolished the law which created an offence of fishing in the close season. This will lead to poachers and illegal anglers caught in this spring’s coarse fishing close season getting away with lesser offences when their cases go to court.The […]

Saturday July 24th59 pegs   Rich vein of form continues! Rich Reynolds’ (Quorn VDE ) rich vein of form continued with a 13-0-0 catch of hemp and tare caught roach from peg 35 on the Isbourne confluence. His third double figure roach catch from the stretch in three weeks generated widespread applause as his dominance of […]

Following the publication of the football fixture list, the organisers of the 2010 North East Sea Angling and Boat Show have discovered that there is a ‘derby’ match between Newcastle and Sunderland arranged for Saturday 30th October.   “From past experience, know that this would have an adverse effect on the numbers of visitors to the […]

Nathan Watson has won the inaugural Totesport.com Fish’O’ Mania Champion of Champions which was held on Sunday 18th July 2010 at Cudmore Fisheries, Staffordshire. The competition featured the 16 men who have won the main Fish ‘O’ Mania competition and Watson won a dramatic finish as he finished less than 2kg ahead of Matt Hall. “I […]

The Angling Trust Daiwa Schools National Championship 2010 was held on Wednesday 21st July 2010 at Hallcroft Fishery, Retford, Nottinghamshire with 30 teams of 5 anglers per team taking part.Valley School from Worksop once again won the winning title for the third year running with a total of 141 points in the team classification. The […]

With immediate effect, all meat and meat-based products have been banned from angling use at Mallory Park Fisheries, Leicestershire. The ban includes luncheon meat, cat food and dog meat, and it applies to competitions, matches and corporate events at all 12 lakes at Mallory Park Lakes and at The Glebe. Venue owner Roy Marlow explained: […]

Cudmore boss Cyril Brewster has taken a long, hard look at the future of Cudmore Fisheries and believes that many fishing baits are not good for fish and their environment. Having looked at the content of many fishing baits he believes that many contain products that may not be beneficial to fish or the environment. […]

Hoar Park Fishery near Ansley in Warkwickshrie will be hosting a junior angling championship starting 7th August 2010, with stacks of prizes including tackle vouchers up to £100, trophies and medals! The competition is open to boys and girls between 10 and 14 years old and will run every Saturday for eight weeks and follow […]

Warlingham & District AS is proud to announce that Drywall Ceilings and Partitions (DCP) are to support the Lower Thames Championships that are to take place on Saturday, 18 September 2010. The event that can cater for up to 200 anglers, will take place on the Thames between Laleham and Molesey which promises to provide […]