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A midlands fishing festival is scaling the country to find an Angling Ambassador to represent the sport at a national level. Avid anglers are invited to tell the team at The Go Fishing Show why they deserve to become an Angling Ambassador by emailing details of the lengths they go to in promoting the pastime in their local area. Judges will shortlist just five finalists who will each receive a pair of tickets to the show on 17 and 18…
Get Hooked On Fishing is participating in the Go Fishing Show and Sky Sports Fishomania on the weekend of 17-18th July, at Cudmore Fishery, Staffordshire. There’s a strong focus on introducing new people to angling and visitors who want to try their hand will be able to do so. Young people can get professional angling tuition and meet some top anglers. TV legends John Wilson, Matt Hayes and Mick Brown will be on hand to pass on tips and advice…
More than 60 of our members travelled from all over the country to attend the historic first AGMs of the Angling Trust and Fish Legal at Stoneleigh Park last weekend. Presentations by the Chairmen of each organisation and by the joint Chief Executive were well received and there was a unanimous vote for the nomination of the existing Board of Directors of AT and the Committee of Fish Legal, along with the nomination of John Amery, David Kent, and Robert…
Neil Machin (Garbolino/Bagem Baits), a Logistics Manager from Stoke on Trent came out as overall winner at The Oaks at Sessay on Saturday 5th June. After winning his section in nearly every Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier he has fished this season he finally came good at The Oaks. It was on one of the new lakes, Ash 11, that Neil drew an end peg one short of the ‘corner’, It was undecided whether the two usual event lakes of Maple…
Rob Wootton (Middy/Dynamite) from Leicestershire became the twelfth qualifier for the Fish ‘O’ Mania XVII Final next month by winning at the match at Heronbrook Fishery, Slindon, near Eccleshall, Staffordshire on Wednesday 2nd June. All the talk was for a draw on the Meadow Pool because it had produced some huge match winning weights in recent events. However, things never really went to plan and Meadow Pool took a back seat as the other pools sprung into life. Rob Wootton…
The eleventh Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier was held for the very first time at the fabulous venue of Partridge Lakes, Culcheth, Cheshire on Saturday 29th May 2010, and was won by 38 year old Transport manager, Steve Bamford (Royal Scot) from Coppull, near Chorley. He became the eleventh qualifier to book his place in the Fish ‘O’ Mania Grand Final. Steve drew by the small islands on Willow Lake 20 and became the second qualifier in succession to qualify on…
Richie Hoskins became the second Ross-on-Wye match ace to qualifier for this year’s Grand Final of the Fish ‘O’ Mania to be fished on July 17th at North Staffordshire’s Cudmore Fisheries. Richie’s friend Steve Seaborn was the second qualifier winner, and with six rounds remaining the market town of Ross-on-Wye now have a double chance of claiming the £25,000 major award. This tenth qualifier was fished in sweltering conditions at the picturesque Octoplus Boldings Fishery near Bridgnorth, Shropshire which was…
Andy Benwell (Masons AC), a carpenter from Kidlington became the ninth angler to qualify from the Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier held at Moorlands Farm on Saturday 15th May to secure his place in the Fish ‘O’ Mania final on 17th July. Andy drew Meadow Peg 25 where he pole fished paste at 13 metres to catch carp to 12lbs to win with 98-1-0. Andy said he was “chuffed to bits with his win”. On the day weights were a bit…
The Salmon and Trout Association: Game anglers influencing national decision makers over the management and protection of salmon, trout and sea trout, the conservation of water and the diverse environments upon which all aquatic life depends. NEWSLETTER: May 2010 New Government: At last we have a new Government and, for all the negotiations which went on around it, we have a Defra Fisheries Minister for England and Wales - Richard Benyon, to whom congratulations on his appointment - who shadowed…
Fish Legal has noted the admission by a spokesman for Dwr Cymru / Welsh Water, quoted in an article in the Daily Post that the Betws-y-Coed treatment works is “currently not up to its usual high standards”. However, Fish Legal, the specialist environmental angling organisation, has questioned how high those standards really are, and why the Environment Agency isn’t taking enforcement action against the company for the pollution. Commenting on the article, Fish Legal’s Head Solicitor Dr. Justin Neal said:…
Fish Legal has been alerted to a serious agricultural pollution that took place on 28th April on a tributary of the River Teifi. Slurry escaping from a farm on Wednesday evening poured into the Afon Cych, which feeds into the Teifi - known by anglers as the “Queen of Rivers” - at Abercych. Environment Agency officers and Fish Legal members - the Teifi Trout Association - were at the river bank yesterday assessing the extent of the fish kill. It…
The Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifiers reached the halfway stage on Saturday at the highly regarded Stafford Moor Fishery in North Devon. Tim Bull (Dynamite Baits) aged 39 years, a Business Development Manager from Leamington is the eighth qualifier to join the line up for the Fish ‘O’ Mania final with a winning weight of 138-8-0 of Carp from Tanners 2. Tim picked up some useful information at Stafford Moor before the match and was told that Tanners would be the…
High overnight temperatures and a warm, overcast breezy day really gave the competitors the best possible conditions to capitalise on their fishing at Woodlands View, near Droitwich on Wednesday in the fifth Fish ‘O’ Mania Qualifier. All lakes fished pretty well and this was best illustrated in the section results where 44lbs was the lowest weight to take one of the 13 ten peg sections. In fact in excess of 67 lbs was needed to win 11 of the sections.…
Mark Downes and Mark Addy, Drennan Team England International Managers have announced that after ten years of success they are sending the most experienced team to fish this year’s World Nations Championships in Ciudad Real, Spain 26th/27th June. Both Managers feel that to compete at the highest level, this team is the best in the world. The team are already the proud owners of a vast amount of gold medals and are hoping to add to their personal collections yet…
This 6th Qualifier in the 2010 series failed to live up to the expected weights that this venue is famous for, mainly due to very heavy overnight rain and a clear bright sunlit day with little or no breeze to put a ripple on the water. Prior to the match, fish could be seen swirling everywhere, especially on Match Lake in the early and late pegs, with lots of big Carp cruising around on the surface of Specimen Lake, but…
All three of the main Westminster political parties have now signed the Angling Trust’s Angling Manifesto. The document sets out a detailed agenda for the next Parliament to protect and improve angling and fisheries and to acknowledge the economic, environmental and social benefits that the country’s most popular pursuit offers to the British people. Signed copies of the Manifesto have been received at the Angling Trust offices from Richard Benyon (Conservative), Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour) and Andrew George (Liberal Democrat). The…
