UK Fishing News

Game 2 days ago

Wye & Usk Foundation starts Resilient Rivers pilot on upper Monnow

Farmers in the upper Honddu valley, at the top of the Monnow catchment, are working with the foundation to test whether resilient farming can recharge aquifers, clean up water and cut flood risk downstream The post Wye & Usk Foundation starts Resilient Rivers pilot on upper Monnow appeared first...

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Game 2 days ago

Aberaeron man sentenced over illegal gill net on the River Aeron

A 25m net set across the Aeron channel at the harbour could have taken sewin and salmon, the Welsh regulator says, and no licence permits it on any Welsh river The post Aberaeron man sentenced over illegal gill net on the River Aeron appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 3 days ago

Kerosene pollution kills fish on Taff tributary as source hunted

Drone surveys and tracing dyes are deployed on complex underground drains as Natural Resources Wales works to stop fuel reaching one of Wales’s best urban trout rivers The post Kerosene pollution kills fish on Taff tributary as source hunted appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 4 days ago

Resilience: how Save the Spring is rebuilding the upper Dee for wild salmon

Jonny Muir of the Atlantic Salmon Trust on Save the Spring, the upper River Dee catchment audit, salmon spawning in a restored side channel on the Muick within weeks, and the smolt-to-adult trial The post Resilience: how Save the Spring is rebuilding the upper Dee for wild salmon appeared first on T...

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Game 4 days ago

Fish bear the cost as river health stalls, fisheries body warns

The Institute of Fisheries Management says the State of Our Rivers report 2026 confirms years of warnings, with Scottish salmon catches down 75% on 2010 and rod catches the lowest on record The post Fish bear the cost as river health stalls, fisheries body warns appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 5 days ago

Foyle game season closes with Carlingford open to 31 October

Tuesday, 20 October is the last day on the Faughan, Mourne and most Foyle rivers, at the end of a season fished under cut tags and late catch-and-release The post Foyle game season closes with Carlingford open to 31 October appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 1 week ago

Simply doing nothing: why static flies catch more reservoir trout

Grazing trout, killer shrimp and fish conditioned to fear a moving fly. Rob Hardy explains why the washing line, the bung and the floating fly now out-fish the strip on the big Midlands reservoirs The post Simply doing nothing: why static flies catch more reservoir trout appeared first on Trout and...

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Game 1 week ago

How Euro nymphing changed everything: a river angler’s guide

Welsh International and river guide Lewis Hendrie on where Euro nymphing came from, why it works, the rods, lines and rigs he uses, and how to get started on your own river The post How Euro nymphing changed everything: a river angler’s guide appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 1 week ago

Dealing with loss: the salmon that got away on a Highland river

A broken-down caravan, a WhatsApp group that pinged with every fish and a reel that chose the worst moment to tangle. Pete Tyjas on a week's salmon fishing on a small Highland river The post Dealing with loss: the salmon that got away on a Highland river appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 1 week ago

Big shoes to fill: a second season on the Towy with a late angler’s flies

Two seasons into fly-fishing, Anthony Pease joins his angling association's committee, signs as trustee where his wife's late grandfather once did, and starts catching on the Towy with flies that grandfather tied 40 years ago The post Big shoes to fill: a second season on the Towy with a late angler...

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Game 1 week ago

Waiting for the man: dry-fly mayfly fishing on Lough Arrow

Bob Wyatt spends three days in a boat on Lough Arrow with renowned guide Jackie Mahon, fishing the western Irish mayfly through cold, wind and squalls in search of a big wild trout on the dry-fly The post Waiting for the man: dry-fly mayfly fishing on Lough Arrow appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 1 week ago

My fishing life: Peter Thompson’s six treasured memories

West Yorkshire angler Peter Thompson on a first salmon from the Stinchar, 50 years on the Upper Oykel, night fishing for sea-trout on the Border Esk, a 17lb sea-trout in Tierra del Fuego and his dad's Hardy Marquis The post My fishing life: Peter Thompson’s six treasured memories appeared firs...

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Game 1 week ago

Hand-tied flies from Sri Lanka: inside the Highland Flies factory

Sri Lanka has almost no fly-fishing, yet two factories outside Colombo and in Kandy tie up to 1.8 million flies a year for anglers from the Test to Montana. A visit to Highland Flies, dressing patterns by hand since 1972 The post Hand-tied flies from Sri Lanka: inside the Highland Flies factory appe...

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Game 1 week ago

Assynt’s secret trout: dry-fly fishing a hidden Highland river

Andrew Newton has never caught a fish from an Assynt loch. In the shadow of Suilven, on a little river he will not name outright, he found trout that came hard and fast to a dry Sedge The post Assynt’s secret trout: dry-fly fishing a hidden Highland river appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 1 week ago

Born on the Bush: the story of the Bush Beauty salmon fly

Reece Connor hears from River Bush tyer William Walker how a guarded local hairwing, three friends and a wet September night in the 1990s produced the Bush Beauty, a fly that landed 80 salmon in a season The post Born on the Bush: the story of the Bush Beauty salmon fly appeared first on Trout and S...

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Game 1 week ago

The drive: what goes through a fly-fisher’s mind on the way to the river

Paul Procter on the miles before the first cast and after the last – the route changes, the tea, the leader he rethinks at 30 minutes out, and the fish he replays all the way home The post The drive: what goes through a fly-fisher’s mind on the way to the river appeared first on Trout and Salm...

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Game 1 week ago

A different generation: teaching my children to fish for salmon

Charlie Keyser learnt his salmon fishing the hard way from a demanding father on the Findhorn. Now it is his turn to teach his own children, on rivers with less water and fewer fish than he grew up with The post A different generation: teaching my children to fish for salmon appeared first on Trout...

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Game 1 week ago

Pitsford Water stocks 3,000 trout before Challenge of Two Halves

The Northamptonshire reservoir goes into Saturday’s pairs competition on a rod average of six, with fish in the top 3ft and another 3,000 trout due in before the match The post Pitsford Water stocks 3,000 trout before Challenge of Two Halves appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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