British Disabled Angling Association officials put their call for a more inclusive and fraud free concessionary licence for disabled people to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Elliot Morley MP., at a specially arranged meeting at Whitehall. With the backing of the Environment Agency, the British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) delegation of Director…

Location: Bury Hill fisheries are situated just off the A25 Dorking to Guildford road and is sign posted on the right when travelling from Dorking. It is a brown tourist board sign. The fishery is less than 1 mile from Dorking town centre.Address: Bury Hill Fisheries Estate Office, Old Bury Hill, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 3JUPhone…

Eighty anglers braved hurricane-force winds to fish the Marie Curie Cup, organised in conjunction with the Pike Anglers Club on the Great Ouse at Ely. But officials ordered the all-out barely half way through the match for safety reasons, after watching competitiors struggle with gusts of more than 60mph. Rods were blown from rests and…

Some people in the Walton PAC region may remember a small (but perfectly formed) friend that used to attend meetings and functions with Brian and I some ten or so years back. His name was Tony ‘Stumpy’ Smith and he was a major part of ‘Fishing with the Family’, as we call our piking adventures…

The main town, Rothesay, was once know as Scotlandís Blackpool, and was a major holiday resort, especially during Victorian times. And though it is no longer the bustling resort of those heady days, it is still very much a vacation centred place, much loved as a stopping-off point for the legion of small yachts and…

It’s three-thirty in the morning and we just know that nothing will be caught before six but we just have to be there at this most perfect time of day. The swim was dragged and baited last night and fish were seen rolling in the vicinity, heightening our anticipation of the trip. There is no…

Any of you even vaguely interested in the angling mags and big carp captures will recognise the name of “Darenth Big Lake” also known as “Darenth Syndicate Lake”. I don’t think a week goes by without at least one 40lb from Darenth entering the pages of the Magazines. Well, also in the Darenth complex are…

Loch Katrine – 8 miles long, around a mile wide, and surrounded by slopes clad in marvellous mixed woodland of oak, birch and rowan, backed by mountain peaks with mysterious Gaelic names; Beinn Chabhair (933m), Stob a’Choin (869m) and Ben Venue (727m), to name but a few. The scenery is literally legendary – immortalised by…

You’ve been at the lake for two nights now. The fishing has been hard, but a few have been coming out and you’ve seen some on the bank so you feel you’re still in with a chance, even though you’ve been fishing at this particular venue for three months now without a fish. You’ve spotted…

Bass [Species Menu] [Bass articles] Common name: Bass (sea bass) Latin name: Dicentrarchus labrax Record weight: Although bass of over 25 pounds have been captured by commercial fisherman, the shore and boat records are remarkably similar at 19lb and 19lb 9oz respectively. Distribution: Bass are found right around the coast of Europe from Scandinavia to…