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Lucky angler catches £10,000 cash at CLA Game Fair!Jersey-based accountant Andrew Dann was the lucky recipient of £10,000 cash after he won Fish for a Fortune at this year’s CLA Game Fair at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. Entrants had just 20 minutes to catch a fish in the lake to then be eligible to be entered into the cash prize draw. At 4pm on the Sunday of the show, Andrew’s name was plucked out of the hat at the Fish for a Fortune pontoon. The married father of two commented: “I was delighted to receive the news of my win! I enjoy all types of fishing, and often go coarse fishing.

Tackle firm to sell direct to the public. 8am on August 8th, 2013 saw the launch of Solar Tackle’s brand-new webshop, Solar 24-7. Every single item made by the world-renowned, UK-based firm is now available at the click of a button. You can shop direct with Solar Tackle from you Mac, PC, smart phone, iPad or tablet, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year and have your goods delivered straight to your door, lake, or anywhere else you desire.

Carp Mecca springs into life. French carp-bagging Mecca, Gigantica has well and truly sprung into action in recent weeks. The poor weather conditions through the spring really set the fishing back. The fish spawned later than expected and, as a result, it confused their feeding patterns.

Ministers urged to ban domestic use of hazardous chemical. Following the identification of the pesticide chlorpyrifos as the cause of last month's pollution of a 15km section of the upper Kennet between Marlborough and Hungerford, the Angling Trust has written to Environment minister Richard Benyon calling for the chemical to be withdrawn from domestic use. It has been estimated that as little as half a cupful poured down a local drain and entering the river via the Marlborough Sewage treatment works resulted in the almost complete wipe-out of macro invertebrates in the affected stretch. Chlorpyrifos is regularly used on lawns and golf courses and to tackle insects on crops and some soft fruits.