Now in its sixth campaign with a voting register of over 4000 subscribers www.anglerssay.com is providing ANGLERS nationwide the opportunity to have their say on the major issues affecting our sport.


Thursday 8 July proved to be a milestone in the process involving angler’s opinions in the decisions that affect their sport.

Led by their venerable editor Graham Marsden, Fishingmagic members supported the growing Anglers Say audience to produce the largest quantative poll ever undertaken on the Environment Agency’s policy of allowing barbel to be stocked in stillwaters.

When the poll closed on Sunday 8 August a stunning three thousand eight hundred and sixty nine anglers had ‘stood up to be counted’ on the question:

‘Should the Environment Agency review their guidelines that allow barbel to be stocked in stillwaters?’

Preliminary Poll Result

Question: Should the Environment Agency review their guidelines that allow barbel to be stocked in stillwaters?

Aggregated response: 3869

Option 1: Yes they should2322 (60%)

Option 2: No they shouldn’t1393 (36%)

Option 3: I have no opinion 154 (4%)

Greatest geographic response

Midland Region: 890 (23%)

Largest age group response: 36 to 55 years: 41%

Competition Winner

I Trevors of Gwent receives his Daiwa Infinity X BR reel because his name was chosen at random from those who entered our competition.

FISHINGmagic Fan
“Anglers Say has become ‘angling’s permission based voting booth on the Internet and having become a FISHINGmagic fan I am delighted with this collaboration,” commented Anglers Say founder Bob Clark. This month, in a change from our popular style of featuring four pundits to provide comment on our poll topic, our new poll is a Keith Arthur special feature.

New Poll
Keith, who perhaps more than any other, has become the anglers’ spokesman through his Sky TV show tight lines and his often controversial radio phone-in show Fisherman’s Blues on Talk Sport has recently renewed his alliance with the biggest angling weekly the Angling Times.

In a recent interview for this web site, the discussion moved on to the governance of our sport. My question was simple.

In this day and age is it fair to expect unpaid volunteers to run the governing body of the nation’s largest sport?

“Let’s ask the Anglers Say audience,” said Keith.

To view the new articles on the homepage and Keith’s question click here

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