The Angling Trust hosted the European Anglers’ Alliance General Assembly in London last weekend, with delegates from 12 countries including the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia and Norway. The Alliance represents a membership of more than 5 million of the 22 million anglers in Europe and employs a full time lobbyist in Brussels.Discussions included marine fish stocks, […]
Angling Trust Hosts European Anglers’ Alliance Meeting in London
Evesham Angling Festival Shakespeare Championship
Evesham Angling Festival Shakespeare ChampionshipSaturday 27th August70 Fished.With the previous day’s heavy rain adding colour to this notoriously clear stretch river, many competitors were hopeful of a few better skimmers, bream, tench and barbel. However, only a handful of better fish showed and those who’d stuck to the ‘safe’ small fish option came out on […]
Abu Garcia/Wychavon Championship
Evesham Angling FestivalAbu Garcia/Wychavon Championship28th August 201170 Fished. Jon Arthur has added the prestigious Abu Garcia Wychavon Championship title to his angling CV after a single-minded bloodworm approach paid dividends. The blustery wind and fast pace made presentation difficult, but Jon managed 20 good sized roach, along with a few smaller samples for an 8-4-0 […]
Evesham Angling Festival Team Championships
Evesham Angling Festival29/08/2011Match Fishing Team Championship70 Fished Daiwa Dorking have taken the Match Fishing Team Championship trophy after one of the closest finishes in the history of the event. Dorking’s five-man side finished on 59 points from a possible 70, just five clear of second-placed Ultimate Barnsley Blacks and eight points clear of third-placed Shakespeare […]
Seed Wins Veterans Championships For Denis White
Shakespeare/Match Fishing Veterans Championship 70 Fished. The legend that is Dennis ‘Fatha’ White destroyed the field in this years Veterans Championship, with a superb display of hemp fishing from fancied peg 50. Barnsley man Denis started his match on his favoured bread punch at nine metres. Fishing a 1g rig, Denis soon started to catch […]
Oakwood Win The Division Two National
Team honours in the Angling Trust Division Two National Championship held on Saturday 20th August 2011 on the Basingstoke Canal went to canal experts and ‘local’ team Oakwood Angling who put their experience and knowledge of the canal to good use by amassing 360 points, their lowest section points being a creditable 19 points on […]
Drennan England Win The Angling Trust Masters
The annual Angling Trust and Fish Legal Masters event was held at Mallory Park Fisheries, Leicestershire on Saturday 20th August 2011 supported by 16 industry and press teams. This is primarily a team event with 6 anglers in a team spread over the whole complex. There were 11 weights over 100lbs but it was not […]
Tim Pickering Seeks Top Feeder Anglers
Preston Innovations England Feeder Team Manager, Tom Pickering is looking for talented anglers to compete in a Feeder trial on Sunday 18th September 2011.The trial will take place on Lake One at Attenborough Gravel Pits, Nottinghamshire. Ticket money of £2.50 will be collected on the day. The trial will be fished to FIPS international rules […]
Great Free Content In Coarse & Match Video Magazine
The latest issue of ‘Coarse And Match Fishing Monthly’, the free-to-view video magazine, is now available to view on Total-Fishing.com and includes contributions from Will Raison, Andy Bennett, Duncan Charman, Mick Wilkinson, Russ Evans, Mark Pollard, Steve Ringer, Simon Clarke, Lee Kerry and Ian Kitson. WATCH NOW!
Pike Anglers Club Looks To Attract Youngsters
Pike anglers will be spearheading the fight to get more youngsters on the bank, as Britain’s top predator club throws open the doors of its annual convention to juniors. Some of the sport’s best-known figures will be running special teach-ins throughout the day at the Pike Anglers Club bash at Kettering Conference Centre, on October […]
Iain Macmillan joins ACE and Dynamite Baits
One of the UK’s biggest names in carp fishing, Iain Macmillan, has signed up for Shimano Normark UK, adding both ACE (Advanced Carp Equipment) and Dynamite Baits to his current Shimano tackle sponsorship. Iain, who was previously backed by Nash for bait and end tackle, will be heavily involved in both Shimano and ACE product […]
Bag Up Coaching Lesson On Milton Lake
Chris Denton booked ‘The Obsessed Angler’ Russ Evans for himself and his son Adam for a coaching lesson on Milton Lake at Bury Hill Fishery to learn some of the finer points of catching plenty of fish on the waggler plus how to prepare expander pellets for the hook and how to correctly feed to […]
Andy Powers To £50,000 Angling Final Win.
23 year old, unemployed, competition angler, Andy Power, from Somerton, Wilts, took the Maver Match This £50,000 winner takes all angling final held a Larford Lakes, Stourport Worcestershire, beating23 of the UK’s top match anglers to land the catch of a lifetime. Grant Albutt (Garbolino) finished a close second, losing a possible match winning £50,000 […]
Mick Brown Joins Shimano Normark UK
Shimano Normark UK is pleased to announce Mick Brown as the first of many big name signings to join its team of pro anglers. Mick adds Shimano to his current sponsors of Dynamite Baits and Rapala in a deal that officially comes into effect on September 1st, 2011. Mick Brown remains as one of the […]
Young Harry’s A Carp Wizard
Four year old Harry McCrae showed the regulars at Shatterford Fishery a thing or two when he had a personal best 23lb carp on the bank with an hour of starting fishing on Masters Lake peg 12. He’d previously spent a couple of hours on Erics and also landed several double figure carp, including a 20lb […]
