It’s a big week in the history of Angler’s Mail as the UK’s favourite weekly fishing mag is fifty years old!
To celebrate, a special 100-page anniversary issue is on-sale from today, and inside you’ll find:
• All the stars and big names give their memories of the Mail over five decades
• Meet the mag’s original star columnist – he’s 85 now!
• We revisit the historic first 1964 issue along with a history of the magazine
• Dave Coster’s Go Fishing cartoon series is back!
• Monster bream to lady angler
• Big eels continue ex-RAF man’s amazing run
• Gary Newman claims the season’s best tench so far with a huge tinca
• Carp World meets Julian Cundiff in a big interview special
• UK coarse record claimed
• Win a massive haul of prizes from Shakespeare and Greys Prodigy in the first of four special birthday comps worth thousands
• Ex-Specimen Cup champ banks monumental catch of double-figure bream from day ticket complex
• New Angling Trust and Get Hooked on Fishing initiative to get kids outdoors more
• Big crucian and golden orfe pick up Korum Specimen Cup prizes
• Massive stillwater chub landed
• Avid’s Ian Russell hauling on Horton
• Angling Adventures targets big golden orfe
• Where to Fish details historic waters around the country – from record-breakers to classic venues from the mag – and general coarse hot spots for June action
• Latest Fox Carp Cup winners
• John Bailey offers his favourite Mail moments
• Product News checks out new gear from Korda and E-S-P plus a carp fishing book
• Match Mail lists latest match results, fixtures and news
