Total-Fishing has teamed up with The Angling Trust and Smartwater Technology Ltd to give four lucky users the chance to win one of the excellent new Forensic Coding Systems, which are designed to give those pesky tackle thieves headaches. The packs, which cost Trust members only £9.99, including delivery, allow anglers to protect their fishing […]

Barford Lakes proudly hosted the Angling finals for the Sainsbury’s Norfolk School Games.  All eight of Norfolk’s School Sports Partnerships entered two teams of three, so 48 young anglers competed in this Level 3 competition.  The Summer School Games has seen around 2500 young people compete in various sports over this week.  Angling successfully entered […]

Angling website Total-Fishing.com has posted its second highest ever set of traffic figures, recording over 58,000 monthly unique users in the month of June 2014.  Industry standard statistics from Google Analytics show that 58,605 unique visitors visited the website between May 31st and June 30th 2014 – less than 2,000 off the best ever figures […]

Angler’s Mail, July 1 issue Inside the latest issue of Angler’s Mail magazine – on-sale from Tuesday – you can learn all about what makes Preston Innovations Matchman of the Year champ Andy Bennett a winner on the competition circuit. He stars in an Action Replay feature and gives a master class on commercial bagging […]

The Angling Trust and Environment Agency are urging anglers to renew their rod licence or risk appearing on a new list identifying people who have been caught fishing illegally published on the Angling Trust’s website at www.anglingtrust.net/prosecutions. The list gives the names, ages and addresses of offenders, plus details of the offence and the fine. […]

Inside the new issue of Angler’s Mail, which stars Essential Knowledge columnist Andy Browne on the cover with a fantastic tench taken whilst filming a feature for this week’s mag, you’ll also find: Dave Coster reveals his all-time favourite Go Fishing cartoons Massive perch to carp angler Giant bream and tench out New river season […]

Mike Heylin has been awarded the OBE today in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to angling over many decades and in particular for his role as Chairman of the Angling Trust for the first five years of its existence as the new unified representative and national governing body for all anglers in England.  He […]

A three-metre long shark was devoured by a ‘super predator of the deep’ that then dived down a continental shelf with the Great White in its stomach! That’s the conclusion of Australian scientists who have been able to study a tag that was washed up on a beach.  Data from the tag reveals that the shark […]

In the second special 50th anniversary issue of Angler’s Mail, we see what happens in the return of Dave Coster’s two-part Go Fishing cartoon plus you can start the new season with a free one-day rod licence – and venue vouchers too! Also inside the bumper issue: Amazing grass carp brace caught by Brits abroad […]

The Angling Trust are delighted to announce that the Fred J Taylor award for protecting or improving water habitats in England will once again be awarded at this year’s CLA Game Fair and are seeking nominations for work either running currently or starting soon. The Game Fair is being held from the 18th-20th July at […]

Sunday the 8th June marks the annual World Ocean Day holiday, where people come together across the world to celebrate our oceans and promote taking care of them. World Ocean Day has been around since 1992 where it was first proposed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2008 the United Nations […]

A family of beavers living in the River Otter in Devon may have to be culled because they are believed to be carrying a rare tapeword that can be passed to humnans, Environmentalist says that Natural England is drawing up plans for a cull even though a programme has begun to reintroduce the animals into […]

The Angling Trust has joined a major movement to reverse the generational decline in children’s connection to nature. The Wild Network, a rapidly growing movement of more than 1000 organisations, large and small, is leading a campaign calling for at least 30 minutes more wild time for every child, every day. The Angling Trust is […]

Message from webmaster Gareth Purnell: Ben from Angler’s Mail has asked me to post that next week is a very special week in the life of the mag – Angler’s Mail is reaching the ripe old age of 50 years old! So I’m only just behind it. If you have any memories of reading the […]

The latest issue of Angler’s Mail magazine, on-sale now, is packed with all your favourite news, features, tips, columnists and star anglers, including: Invasive ‘flying carp’ removed and killed from UK waters Carp match sees whackers landed Save the eel – exclusive report on a species in recover Giant common carp on full moon Crabtree […]