Midlands ace Dave Harrell is available for a question and answer session on Facebook on Thursday July 12th from 7.30pm in the latest Session With The Stars. An England international, journalist and tackle firm owner and with an angling CV that boasts achievements most of us would dream of, Dave is known as one of […]

For any firm to stay in business for 50 years it’s an achievement. In the tackle shop trade it’s a minor miracle, but that’s just what Midlands shop Banks & Burr is celebrating this month. Owner Dave Burr’s big break came in 1965 when he won the National Championships, then by far and away the […]

Clive Gammon, one of the great angling writers, has died aged 83. Clive was one of the world’s top sport’s journalists, covering Olympic Games, Ali fights and World Cups. Among the finest angling writer that Britain has produced, he was also a critic for The Spectator, making him, he later said, “the only man in […]

One of Germany’s best known sea anglers and Norway pioneer Rainer Korn has entered into collaboration with American fishing tackle legends Fin-Nor. The first fruits of the partnership were presented at the EFTTEX angling trade fair in Paris in June 2012. This included four rod series – from the 50 lb boat rod through to […]

Eleven angling, fisheries, shooting and countryside organisations have joined forces to call for cormorants and goosanders to be added to the General Licence as part of a National Management Plan because of the damage they are doing to fish stocks on rivers and lakes. They have issued a joint statement in advance of the imminent […]