Mark Addy has become the first individual World Veterans Champion following the inaugural F.I.P.S.ed organised Veterans World Championships which took place on the River Tamega in northern Portugal last weekend (12th and 13th July). The team also put in a great performance winning bronze at the championships narrowly missing out on silver. The Championships treated […]

Match anglers can look forward to a trip to China each year if a new initiative by MatchBox owner Jim Burton gets the green light.Jim spends much of his time in China and has found a sponsor to back a ‘China Challenge’ in which UK based matchmen will take on Chinese anglers for a big […]

Maurice Williams walked away with a cool £1,000 after winning the100-pegBarston Bowl. At the draw any peg between peg 10 and 18 was fancied andwithMaurice drawn at peg 16 to the right of the fountain he set to workwith abrass Kobra method feeder fished at 70 yards. Maurice had a carp firstchuckand ended the match […]

Sunday 13th July 2008  Draw 1pm fishing 2-30pm – 7-30pm                    69 fished Fished on Evesham Town and Hampton Ferry Waters 1st Paul Wilson    Independent /Kidderminster   16lbs 9ozs.odrms     Peg 30        2 Barbel 2nd  John Curtis         Daiwa Gordon League     13lbs   Peg 34       Chub 3rd Leigh Gardner     W.B.Clarke       7lbs 2ozs 0drms        Peg 1         Bream/Perch 4th Jim Smith    Bait Box       6lbs […]

We are happy to report that two more cases have been successfully settled since our last news update. In Northern Ireland, the insurers of a construction company have agreed to pay damages to the The Threemile Water Conservation and Angling Association, following a pollution incident at Newtonabbey in County Antrim. In January 2006, O’Hare & […]

We are losing our bass stocks   A combination of unfolding circumstances is leading to the rapid destruction of the country’s inshore bass stocks and a loss of the valuable Recreational Sea Fishery, along with thousands of jobs in the Recreational Sea Fishing sector. Already under great pressure, and with a legal minimum landing size set […]

The superb Fox Match Tameside Junior and Intermediate Teams have performed brilliantly in the recent National Federation of Anglers Junior National Championships. The team took gold in the intermediate match and silver in the junior event, fished on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal. Team manager, Ian Bayley, said: “As a team we put a lot […]

Fox International is pleased to announce that with immediate affect it will be sponsoring the National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA) Shore Angling Team. The team will now be known as: ‘NFSA Fox Sea Team England’. This move underlines Fox’s commitment to the sea market by sponsoring one of the world’s best sea angling teams. […]

September 6, 2008 will see the launch of the first ever Fox International show – The Fox Carp Experience. The show will be held at The Carp Society Horseshoe Lake, Lechlade, Glos, from 10am to 5pm. The show will see all Fox UK consultants and sponsored anglers in attendance, helping the general public improve their […]

 Who: Salmon and Trout Association  Norfolk Branch When: Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 July 2008 from 10am to 5pm Where: Roosting Hills, Beetley, Dereham, NR20 4DQ  Two fly-fishing coaching days, sponsored by the Environment Agency, Hardy and Greys and the Salmon and Trout Association, have been arranged for the weekend (19/20) with Sunday as a […]

A partnership project by the Environment Agency and the Frome, Piddle and West Dorset Fisheries Association to help salmon migrate up the River Frome is back on track. The project is to construct a fish pass on a weir at Louds Mill in Dorchester. At the moment fish have extreme difficulty in leaping over the […]

The 2008 NFA Cadet, Junior and Intermediate National Angling Championships supported by Pentax UK took place this Saturday (5th July) on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal in Thorne near Doncaster. Over 200 young anglers aged between 10 and 20 years of age took to the bank looking to go home with the title of National […]

 The REEL project team, which encouraged people in Lincolnshire to try the sport of angling and made habitat improvements for wildlife, is celebrating after winning a prestigious Environment Agency award for best ‘Community Engagement Project’.  The three year REEL (Recreation and Environmental Enhancements in Lincolnshire) project was launched in 2004 and improved rivers and drains […]

The fishing tackle trade can continue to make products containing lead – after The European Parliament didn’t repeat its demand for a ban on the substance at the second reading of the Laperrouze Report. Confronted with arguments and reports from the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament realised that there were […]

Cup Craft is the revolutionary new bait delivery system for pole anglers from Tancho Tackle that makes cupping in bait super accurately, in any conditions, a doddle. It means no more spilling bait from ‘pole bounce’, and will see you cupping in your bait at distance more accurately and more quickly than the anglers around […]