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25/04/2013

Good rods, reels, lures at Crossroads auction

Reels like a 360 vom Hofe Perfection, a 16/0 Kovalovsky, and a limited-edition set of Bogdan salmon reels are among the highlights at Crossroads Angling Auction […]
19/04/2013

Banned supertrawler turns up in South Pacific

The 142-metre supertrawler banned by Australia because of fears over its impact on the country’s  pelagic fishery has turned up off Chile. The giant factory-freezer ship […]
10/04/2013

East Europeans banned from fishing lake

A fishing ban on Eastern Europeans has sparked controversy at a UK lake. The owner of Lakeview Camping Park, Eddie Whitehead, has put up signs saying:  […]
09/04/2013

Top TV angler John Wilson quits UK for Thailand

John Wilson, who played a pivotal role in reviving European angling in the 1980s through his Go Fishing television programmes, is leaving England and moving to […]
08/04/2013

Woman catches fish with her vagina

A television presenter filming a survival series caught a fish by using her vagina as “bait”. Whether the series of Naked Castaway on the Discovery Channel […]
08/04/2013

Mr Crabtree series back on TV

The acclaimed new series Fishing in the Footsteps of Mr Crabtree is being repeated on satellite television stations from tomorrow (April 9). You can watch it […]
07/04/2013

Farlow’s to be sold

Farlow’s, one of the most historic and enduring names in angling, is to be sold, we can reveal. The company started in 1840. This and many […]
07/04/2013

Case of barbel sells for record £18,000

A brace of barbel in a glass case set a world record when it sold for £18,000 (excluding 15% buyers’ commission) at Angling Auctions. The special […]
12/02/2013

Angler fined for killing great white shark

A man has been fined more than £8000 for killing a great white shark that he hooked off a beach in South Africa. Leon Bekker of […]
12/02/2013

Fishing app checks weather and hotspots

A free fishing-specific weather app for Android and iPhone users has just been released. FishMarX is a GPS marking tool you can use  on the water […]
10/02/2013

Keeping Bonefish in ‘Recovery Bags’ Boosts Survival Rates

Keeping bonefish in “recovery bags” after they have been caught results in significantly improved survival rates, scientiests have found. Allowing captured fish to rest in the […]
10/02/2013

Our Book Reviews

All the book reviews published in Classic Angling for the past year are now available on this site free. We aren’t worried about offending publishers, which […]
08/02/2013

Video of the week: a big pike through the ice

Pretty impressive: catching a 26lb pike through a hole on the ice from a lake in southern Alberta, Canada. The guy has a job getting it […]
08/02/2013

Mongolian team to take part in world ice-fishing championships

Mongolia is entering the world ice-fishing championships for the first time. The week-long event, which starts next week on Big Eau Pleine Reservoir in Wisconsin, has […]
08/02/2013

Shark size limit to double

Moves are afoot to double the minimum size of sharks that can be retained off Maryland waters. Though the new regulations, which come into force in […]