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Staffordshire based chef, Edward Warren, won the latest Fish-O-Mania qualifier this weekend. Fishing the pellet feeder on Hay pool he put 117lbs 2ozs on the scales and secured his place in the final. Edward, from Penkridge, caught carp to 10lbs steadily throughout the day. Before the draw most anglers were apprehensive about how the venue would perform as the fish appeared to be very close to spawning. During the early stages it looked as though their concerns were well founded.…
Working with Charing and District Angling Club, the Environment Agency has made significant improvements to Colt Pond near Bethesden. As part of a major fishery restoration initiative in the Kent and East Sussex area, Colt Pond has been de-silted and restored. There have been many other welcome improvements, too, such as all-ability access and angling platforms, marginal planting, an angling cabin and wildlife education classes. The project, partly funded by rod licence sales, has also involved extensive restocking. We’ve introduced…
Mark Owen, a passionate angler and recently awarded BSc (Hons) in Environmental Management from the University of Derby, has been appointed as the Angling Trust’s National Environment Campaigns Manager. He first picked up a fishing rod as an 11-year-old, and is now in charge of all of the Trust’s national and international environment campaigns. He was previously a commodity trader, is a member of the Environment Agency’s Midlands Region Fisheries Ecology and Recreation Advisory committee and a founder member of…
The Angling Trust has recently confirmed the appointment of six new Regional Officers to join the two already in place. Their remit will be to promote and develop angling across the country. Working within local communities, with schools, the Scouts and Angling Trust member clubs and fisheries they will be responsible for promoting the Trust and introducing angling to a new generation of young people. These appointments are supported by Sport England and the Environment Agency and each of the…
Former Fish-O Mania champion Nathan Watson sealed his third appearance in the final when the Louth based angler recorded 131lbs 14ozs of fish – a margin of just 1lb 6oz. Stationed at the favoured peg 91 on lake 3 he fished a pellet feeder for the 1st hour, and a pole down the edge for the remainder of the match. Nathan used pellet, luncheon meat and corn as hook baits to take a mainly carp net, with the biggest scaling…
Student Adam Richards won this weekend’s PartyPoker.com Fish-O-Mania qualifier at Tunnel Barn Farm on Saturday 16th May with a haul of 114lb 10ozs. Student Adam, from Billingham and a Maver Barnsley team member, drew peg 13 on Canal Pool where he pole fished worms across to the island to take a succession of F1’s to 3lb for his winning weight. He fed a kilo of worms and 3pints of casters to keep his fish interested. 130 Anglers faced strong winds…
The Angling Trust delivered an impressive spectacle at Barston Lakes on 16th May as seven England teams and five World Champions came together to help raise funds for the England Veterans and Anglers with Disabilities team. All five gold Medal individual winners from 2008 - Will Raison (Nations), Emma Pickering (Ladies), Mark Addy (Veterans), Callum Dicks (Under 22’s), and Matt Godfrey (Under 18’s) - took part along with the world’s most prolific Angling Gold Medallist, Alan Scotthorne. Dick Clegg said…
The Angling Trust is set to deliver the greatest spectacle of international angling ever seen as seven England teams and five World Champions come together at Barston Lakes on Saturday May 16th to help raise funds for the England Veterans and Anglers with Disabilities team. The five 2008 gold Medal individual winners attending are Will Raison (Nations), Emma Pickering (Ladies), Mark Addy (Veterans), Callum Dicks (Under 22’s), and Matt Godfrey (Under 18’s). Plus the world’s most prolific Angling Gold Medallist,…
Officials from the Angling Trust and the European Anglers’ Alliance met today with Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg at the European Commission in Brussels to discuss the review of the Common Fisheries Policy and to raise concerns about the proposed regulation of Europe’s 10 million recreational sea anglers. Joe Borg said at the meeting, and in a letter being sent to all European angling organisations, that the Commission’s controversial Article 47 regulation of fisheries is not intended to impact on recreational…
Mark Stevens an industrial radiographer from Tipton has won the fourth qualifier of PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania at Octoplus Boldings in Bridgnorth on Saturday 25th April and is now in with a chance of receiving the jackpot £25,000. On a day that started showery with a cold easterly wind, expectations for the sort of weights this venue had been producing during the preceding weekend’s matches were low, with many thinking that the winning weight would be in the region of…
The Angling Trust and Fish Legal cautiously welcomed today’s announcement from the Environment Agency that, 20 years after privatisation, over 4,000 unregulated sewage overflows are finally to be monitored and policed. Anglers have led calls for several years for these discharges to be regulated, after several of them caused pollutions which caused major fish kills, but the polluters could not be prosecuted by the Environment Agency. Pollutions on the Rivers Don, Eamont and Glaze affected Fish Legal’s member angling clubs,…
Team Fox Match led by Derek Willan took the honours in the Angling Trust benefit match, hosted at Barford Lakes on Saturday 18th April. This team event saw 84 anglers compete for generous tackle prizes donated by some of the top tackle companies, who each sponsored a team. The match attracted some of the top names in the sport who fronted their tackle company’s team. It also brought MP Martin Salter (Labour’s Parliamentary spokesman for Angling) and Mark Lloyd (Chief…
Chris Vandervleit, a vehicle technician from Essex has driven to victory at Barford Lakes on Wednesday (15th April) winning the third round of PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania 2009, the biggest prize pot in angling. A complete field of 130 anglers took to the well known Norfolk venue, with various predictions as to which lake would produce the winner. However no-one believed that Match Lake, where eventual winner Chris was fishing, would come up trumps in the warm and changeable conditions.…
The Drennan Team England has now been selected to represent the nation in the World Championships in Holland on the 5th and 6th September having secured the Gold team medal three times over the last four years and is bidding to continue this success at what is likely to be a difficult venue There is an immense amount of experience in this team and it is looking to hold off what are likely to be powerful challenges from France and…
Tony Curd, aged only 19 from Notting Hill, London has booked his place in the PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania final following a close win at Lakeview Fishery on Saturday 14th April The youngster owes much of his win to a fast start, catching well from the margins bringing a substantial number of small carp into his keep net for the first 40 minutes. Fishing from match peg number 64 on Harbour Lake, Tony continued to catch steadily throughout the match…
Mick Bull, the 2008 PartyPoker.com Fish ‘O’ Mania Champion has booked his return ticket to Cudmore with victory in the first qualifier for the 2009 competition at Viaduct Fishery, Somerset last weekend.
