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River Dee lands £500,000 boost for Save the Spring

The Just Transition Fund award will support restoration, monitoring and community engagement across the Dee catchment as the 20-year salmon programme scales up The post River Dee lands £500,000 boost for Save the Spring appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Sea 2 days ago

BIG TOPE TACKLE ESSENTIALS

UK record holder Gareth Griffiths reveals his tackle recommendations and top tips for targeting big shore-caught tope this month AKIOS NITRON SVR  The Nitron SVR is a high-end 14ft 6in, two-piece shore rod that provides serious backbone for launching big baits and absorbing the brutal runs. The...

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Game 1 week ago

Drought order ‘could devastate’ River Test, inspector told

WildFish objected as Southern Water's bid to keep abstracting from the Test at low flows went before a planning inspector, whose recommendation now goes to Defra The post Drought order ‘could devastate’ River Test, inspector told appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 1 week ago

Hooké comes to Britain

The Canadian fly-fishing and outdoor apparel brand, founded on the Restigouche in 2012, is now stocked by three specialist UK retailers The post Hooké comes to Britain appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 1 week ago

A voice for grayling: Marnie Lovejoy on the Grayling Society and the health of our rivers

The Grayling Society's new chair came to fly fishing late, and to grayling by way of a fish she lost on the Test. Marnie Lovejoy tells Pete Tyjas why the fish she loves may be the truest measure of a river's health The post A voice for grayling: Marnie Lovejoy on the Grayling Society and the health...

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Game 2 weeks ago

Upper Dee catchment audit completed in spring salmon fight

More than 1,200 sq km above Aboyne has been mapped in one of Scotland's largest-ever catchment audits, a milestone for Save the Spring The post Upper Dee catchment audit completed in spring salmon fight appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 2 weeks ago

Farmed salmon DNA found across Scotland’s wild stocks

A Scottish Government study of 6,639 wild fish finds farm genes on about a fifth of the river network, and on nearly three-quarters of it in Lochaber The post Farmed salmon DNA found across Scotland’s wild stocks appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 2 weeks ago

Severn drought order: what it means for the river’s salmon

The first drought order sought on the Severn since 1989 would relax minimum flows and cut abstraction by 5%. For the river's migratory fish, the autumn running now depends on how the water is spent The post Severn drought order: what it means for the river’s salmon appeared first on Trout and...

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Game 2 weeks ago

Giant bluefin are back off Yorkshire: what it means for UK anglers

Two bluefin of about 320kg taken a day apart off Whitby are the first giants from Yorkshire's waters since the 1960s, and scientists expect more to follow The post Giant bluefin are back off Yorkshire: what it means for UK anglers appeared first on Trout and Salmon.

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Game 2 weeks ago

A Lyme disease vaccine is finally in sight for anglers

After two decades without one, three Lyme vaccines are in clinical trials and the frontrunner has posted 73% efficacy. For anyone who spends long days in bankside vegetation, relief is at last on the horizon The post A Lyme disease vaccine is finally in sight for anglers appeared first on Trout and...

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Game 2 weeks ago

A link in the chain: how the Deer Hair Emerger came about

Bob Wyatt on the parachute hackle, the Klinkhåmer and the old Grey Duster, and how putting two and two together at the vice produced the Deer Hair Emerger. It cost him a job and a marriage, and he would do it again The post A link in the chain: how the Deer Hair Emerger came about appeared first on...

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Game 2 weeks ago

Two new Wheelyboats launched at Draycote Water

Disabled fly-fishers have two new reasons to head for Draycote Water this summer, after a pair of purpose-built Wheelyboats was launched at the Warwickshire reservoir on 28 July. Each has a hydraulic platform that lowers for step-free boarding, so a wheelchair user can board, navigate and operate th...

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Game 2 weeks ago

Honey-glazed trout bites recipe

Sian Hughes turns two rainbow trout fillets into bite-sized pieces in a sticky Asian-style honey glaze, served on jasmine rice with a crunchy salad. It is a light summer lunch that takes about 25 minutes from cold kitchen to table The post Honey-glazed trout bites recipe appeared first on Trout and...

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Game 2 weeks ago

A tale to be told: the fly that waited 26 years

Bob Preston tied half a dozen washed-out olives in a Wharfedale B&B the night before the 1991 River National, and never got to fish them. Twenty-six years later, on a Test tributary in a hatch of lesser spurwings, three of them were still in the box The post A tale to be told: the fly that waite...

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Game 2 weeks ago

Grazers, not hunters: how reservoir trout have changed

England international Steve Cullen has watched reservoir trout give up hunting and take to grazing, cruising and picking off whatever is easiest. It has changed how we fish for them, and made the washing line the default answer to everything The post Grazers, not hunters: how reservoir trout have ch...

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Game 2 weeks ago

Thrills in the jungle: fly fishing for carp at Sutton Bingham

England youth international Lydia Thomas stalks carp from 1lb to well over 20lb in the tree-lined margins of a Somerset reservoir, where a hooked fish knows exactly which branch to wrap you round The post Thrills in the jungle: fly fishing for carp at Sutton Bingham appeared first on Trout and Salmo...

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Game 2 weeks ago

A third of Irish wild salmon carry farmed genes

The most comprehensive study of its kind has found farmed-fish genes in more than a third of Ireland's wild salmon populations, a result that will alarm anyone who prizes the wild salmon of the west. Researchers want mandatory genetic monitoring, rapid sampling after farm breaches and stricter conta...

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Game 2 weeks ago

DNA evidence reopens the debate on salmon stocking

New DNA evidence from the River Carron in Wester Ross suggests carefully managed stocking can help rescue salmon rivers pushed to the brink. WildFish is unconvinced, and even the study's authors call hatcheries a bridging strategy rather than a substitute for habitat recovery The post DNA evidence r...

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