The fourth Ivan Marks memorial event was held at Mallory Park Fisheries in atrocious conditions for many of the 88 anglers booked in for the first day of the two-day event.A northeasterly gale made fishing conditions extremely difficult with several poles broken in gale force winds on both days.The more sheltered Foundation Lake was the […]

Simon O’Brien had a fantastic trip to the 12 acre Margot Lake, North West France last week. Amongst the many fish he caught was the lake record common which weighed in at a monster 66lb. He also went on to land a 41lb 12oz mirror, 40lb 12oz common, 28lb mirror, 25lb mirror and another pile […]

Two weeks into the ACA’s 60th Anniversary Auction the bids are now starting to roll in. Please take a moment to have a look at some of the wonderful lots and use the simple on-line form if you want to make a bid yourself. The more money we can raise the more we can do […]

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Professional angler Andy May booked his place in the 2008 PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania final by winning the latest qualifier at Woodlands View in Droitwich, this bank holiday weekend. Once again the conditions were anything but perfect on the day with high winds and the threat of heavy rain hanging over the fishery. Despite the […]

Warlingham & District Anglers’ Society are proud to announce that they will once again be promoting the Lower Thames Championship after a gap of over two decades. With the River Thames producing record breaking fish and providing excellent pleasure catches after years in the doldrums, match anglers have expressed an interest in once again returning […]

IVAN MARKS MEMORIAL SARTURDAY 24 MAY 2007 The fourth Ivan Marks memorial event was held at Mallory Park Fisheries in atrocious conditions for many of the 88 anglers. A northeasterly gale made fishing conditions extremely difficult for many anglers. Several poles were broken due to the gale force winds. Section winnersPOOL 1 Mick Stamp 89lb […]

Following increased fisheries patrols over the May bank holiday weekend by Fisheries Officers of the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board (ShRFB), visiting pike anglers were found fishing with live carp imported from France. On the evening of Sunday the 4th May 2008, Officers from the Board uncovered a group of eight French anglers fishing for pike […]

Total-FishingClub.com members once again showed their great generosity by raising over £1600 for the ACA in their annual two-day festival at the Glebe. The event could not happen without the good will from fishery owner Roy Marlow, who donates the entire peg fee to the charity, so many thanks Roy. Understandably Roy has decided he […]

Background For the past year, the main national membership organisations representing anglers have been planning to unify into one body to represent all coarse, sea and game anglers.  This is a move which has been long awaited and tried unsuccessfully in the past.  We aim to make it a reality at last.  It is widely […]

Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart has challenged Defra Minister Jonathan Shaw to freeze concessionary rod licenses for the next five years following huge increases since 1997, which threaten to marginalise elderly and disabled anglers. Licences for non-migratory trout and coarse and salmon and sea trout fishing have increased by 109 and 64 per cent […]

Just before Easter we noted that plenty of carp were ‘milling’ around in the edges of the ponds and not looking very fit.  Within a day or two we started to get mortalities of the carp with a fairly regular number each day, the worst affected being the carp lake and Folly lake.We quickly engaged […]

Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart has challenged Defra Minister Jonathan Shaw to freeze concessionary rod licenses for the next five years following huge increases since 1997, which threaten to marginalise elderly and disabled anglers. Licences for non-migratory trout and coarse and salmon and sea trout fishing have increased by 109 and 64 per cent […]

Recent scientific evidence shows that UK bass stocks are collapsing.  Bass Society demands urgent government action. John Leballeur, Chairman of the Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society (BASS) Restoration Project Team says “In over 20 years of bass sampling I have never seen a period when the numbers of young bass have been so low for so […]

Reigning UK Champion Jon Arthur got that winning feeling at Browning Cudmore last weekend as he qualified for the final of PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania, and will be hoping to replicate his performance at the same venue in July. All the main match pools were being used on the day, however the Arena pool which […]