Calling all Fishermen & Women - Emerald Pool Fishery in Somerset will be hosting a Charity Fishing Match on Saturday 14th October in memory of Luke Organ to raise money for SADS charity. Everyone welcome - just £20 per person... Read more
Fishing Information: Fishing Events Advice and Articles
The Fishing articles below provide information and contact details for Angling Associations, Charities and Angling bodies
Not all are specific to Game, Coarse or Sea Fishing. All the clubs and associations cover our South West region - an area which includes Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, South Gloucestershire and a small part of Hampshire. We are keen to promote Angling events within our region. If you have an event or article you would like considered for publication on our website please email [email protected] along with your contact details.
No-one has ever accused me of being mature. Quite the opposite in fact. According to my wife, the best way to describe my character after 46 years of evolution is ‘infantile’. I am not a patient man. Not blessed with much composure or equanimity.
And yet, people always... Read more
Nick Fisher | May 26 2009 | Game Fishing Articles: Fishing Tips and Advice
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When I first came to the South West over 35 years ago, the general wisdom was that fly fishing for brown trout on our rivers was at its best between start of the season and early June, and then became so difficult that it was hardly... Read more
Mike Weaver | December 8 2008 | Game Fishing Articles: Fishing Tips and Advice
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In 1961 with my late husband Gerald Fox-Edwards I bought a fishing pub. As a Londoner and an actress I knew positively nothing about fishing and little about hotel keeping. But Gerald’s health was worrying and his doctors advised... Read more
Anne Voss-Bark | December 8 2008 | Game Fishing Articles: Fishing Tips and Advice
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I stopped on the bridge, as always, to peer into the river below. The sun shone and the water took on that blue green translucence typical of springtime. A few martins and swallows swooped, seeking nourishment following their long flight from far off lands and, after a brief survey of the pool, I moved on and came to the old gate that leads to the river bank.
The gate hung partly... Read more
Wayne Thomas | November 18 2008 | Game Fishing Articles: Fishing Tips and Advice
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Brian Marshall is Chairman, Wessex Salmon and Rivers Trust
The River Hampshire Avon
The high levels of activity and co-operation described in the last edition continue and begin to achieve results.
The formal complaint to the European Commission by Wessex Salmon and Rivers Trust, contending that the Irish mixed stock salmon drift net... Read more
Brian Marshall | December 8 2008 | Game Fishing Articles: Fishing Tips and Advice
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As Recreational Sea Angling increases its footprint within the process of formulating marine fisheries policy, what are the risks?
In last year’s ‘Get Hooked’ guide, I reported how the Government now formally includes Recreational Sea Angling (RSA) as part of the marine fisheries sector. Such recognition, whilst essential if the many legitimate concerns of RSA are to stand any chance of... Read more
Malcolm Gilbert | November 17 2008 | Sea Fishing Articles: Tips and Advice
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Since their introduction in the 1950s at the hands of the local water authorities and the Angling Times, barbel have come to dominate the middle and lower reaches of the Bristol Avon. Venues like Lacock, Peckingells and Claverton have achieved national recognition, and specimens in excess of fifteen pounds have been caught.
To many, the Avon is a barbel river now, and I have pursued old... Read more
Jon Berry | November 21 2008 | Coarse and Carp Fishing Articles
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The margin between success and relative failure in fishing can be very small and this is particularly so in the case of the type of angling that I enjoy most – fly-fishing for trout on rivers. Indeed, there is an old saying that ten per cent of the fishermen catch ninety... Read more
Mike Weaver | December 8 2008 | Game Fishing Articles: Fishing Tips and Advice
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Brian Marshall is the Chairman - Wessex Salmon and Rivers Trust 
The southern, lowland chalk streams of Wessex have a rich bio-diversity that has, for millennia, supported thriving populations of fish, flora, birds and... Read more
Brian Marshall | December 8 2008 | Game Fishing Articles: Fishing Tips and Advice
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By The Editor
There are many bitter sweet experiences in the life of an angler.
We must all know that feeling of getting a good fish to the net only for it to shed the hook at the last moment.
Even worse perhaps is striking into some... Read more
Graham Sleeman | December 9 2008 | Coarse and Carp Fishing Articles
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