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We anglers are blessed. So diverse is our way of life we have a near limitless store of interesting experiences to relate; no other sport has so much literary excellence to offer.

Eddie Benham has been a tench fisherman since time began but it wasn't until his discovery of a particularly good tench lake in the late noughties that the real monsters started coming to his net. With such prizes at stake, he couldn't afford to fish with anything less than the most reliable rigs and so he got to thinking...

The Angling Trust's discussions with the Environment Agency on the vexed issues of the coarse angling rod licence for the use of multiple rods and charging juniors to fish look likely to produce a result that will please both youngsters and the many carp and specimen anglers who feel aggrieved at having to buy two separate rod licences.

...and you think we've got problems? Two Cambodian men have died violently in what is the third fatal accident related to illegal dynamite fishing this month.

This is an open letter to the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It follows on from Martin Salter's recent FM article on the same important subject.

This article is about my tench fishing exploits in 2010 and 2011 Although I have been fishing since I was ten years old (sixty three years ago now) I do not consider myself to be a dedicated specimen hunter or a technically adept angler. In fishing terms I am quite capable of changing a fuse, but I am not an electrician. I hope you understand what I mean by that.

At a time when communities across Britain are mopping up after the floods which devastated the downstream areas of many river catchments it beggars belief that government ministers are even considering deregulating practices which their own experts have told them will move water downstream even faster.

When it comes to famous carp around the world the name of Eric's Common is right up there as one of the most sought after. The huge common lives in the demanding Rainbow Lake in France and for quite a while held the title of the biggest common in the world. It is a fish I've wanted to catch since I started fishing Rainbow regularly in 2011. Read on to discover how I eventually succeeded...

Liz Truss, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs, in a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference today (Wednesday 6 January) announced a number of measures which could increase the risk of flooding in towns and cities and cause widespread damage to the environment, according to the Angling Trust

The following account of Bear's introduction to the Wye Valley was written from the heart and in the hope of spawning some dog 'n' fishing type stories from viewers. Geoff Maynard gave us 'Fishing with Hugo' some time back but that was something of a one-off: do you fish with a pooch? Has your dog embarrassed or assisted or protected you on the riverbank?