Fishing

Concern is growing for a 40-year-old man who was last heard from on Thursday, June 2. Aaron, was last seen at 11.30am in Patchway when he said he was off fishing at Boyd Valley Lake in Bitton. Avon and Somerset Police have now issued a call for help to find Aaron who hasn’t been heard from since. Police say Aaron …

Former world and European fly casting champion Hywel Morgan says the first GWCT Welsh Game Fair in September will provide a platform to showcase fishing in Wales to an international audience. The GWCT Welsh Game Fair will be held at the Vaynol Estate, near Bangor from September 9-11 and Hywel says the setting, with a large lake in front of …

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The unusual chance to buy a stunning rural fishing lake off the M5 is coming up at a Birmingham auction. The Lake in Swindon Hall Grounds, Swindon Village, Cheltenham, goes under the hammer on July 13. We take a look around the stunning site that will give anglers the chance to own their fishing spot just an hour from Birmingham. …

It’s an angler’s dream – a Midlands fishing lake all to yourself in the peace of the blissful Cotswolds’ town of Cheltenham. In the grounds of Swindon Hall, the lake is up for grabs at a Birmingham auction this month(July). Just down the M5, an hour from Birmingham, it has scenery and angling opportunities akin to those seen in shows …

A team of fishermen managed to reel in a 59 stone tuna fish during a four-hour long battle to obtain the mammoth creature. Devin Sarver posted jaw-dropping pictures of the Bluefin Tuna on Facebook after catching it while fishing in Destin, Florida on the weekend. The monster weighed a whopping 832 pounds and could have smashed the state’s fishing record …

The ringleader of a long-running illegal poaching operation has avoided jail after stealing hundreds of salmon and trout over seven years. Emlyn Rees, of Cenarth in Ceredigion, kept a detailed ledger of his illegal catches. Over a seven-year period, 373 dated entries of fish capture were made detailing the number and weights of the fish caught, which included 989 sea …

The total included a fine of £220 for fishing without a licence, with costs of £135 and a victim surcharge of £34. An annual fishing licence would have cost them just £30 a year. On October 17, 2021 an Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement Officer, who was on routine patrol in Formby, spoke to Wood, who was also found to be fishing without …

A new report for two British fishing industry organisations says that over a third of English and Welsh fishing waters and more than half of Scottish waters could be inaccessible to trawling by 2050 due to plans for offshore energy and expansion of marine protected areas. The report for the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) and National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations …

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