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ANGLERS have complained about fish in distress being picked off by birds in the last remaining waters of Llanishen Reservoir. Hobby fishermen accused the Environment Agency of not doing enough to protect wildlife when it approved reservoir owner Western Power Distribution’s bid to drain the historic site. The Agency said last night that it had launched an immediate investigation but …

Anglers are being asked to help in the search for a rare fish that appears to be getting more common on the rivers of North Wales. Every June thousands of shad spawn in Wales but mostly in three rivers in the south of the country – the Wye, Usk and Tywi. In contrast to salmon and sea trout, shad populations …

An angler unwittingly discovered a dead body in a canal after hooking a rucksack to remove it from the water. Tony Whaley, 38, has spoken of his horror at realising what he had discovered in the Erewash Canal behind his home in Bennett Street, Long Eaton. The grim discovery happened at 8.30am on September 15 while Mr Whaley, who works …

A 13-YEAR-OLD fly tie fishing angler has been invited to join a professional youth team after casting light on his talent in recent Denbighshire competitions. Matthew Davies, year eight pupil at Denbigh High School, became interested in fly tying around three years ago when his uncle, Stuart Hughes, started to take him along to weekly winter Vale of Clwyd Angling …

This is the dramatic moment RNLI volunteers raced to save a fishing vessel from sinking off the coast of North Wales. The lifeboat from Abersoch was launched yesterday afternoon after reports that a fishing vessel with one person on board was sinking in the sea off the Llyn Peninsula . The stranded person on board the boat had been saved …

A sea angler plunged to his death in high winds after claiming he knew his way around a cliff top. Dad Colin Middleton, 49, was named yesterday as the victim of a tragic ­accident in Orkney . Colin, from Sheffield, was winched from the foot of cliffs at The Gloup, ­Deerness, on Thursday but could not be saved. He had …

NOTE: This content is old – Published: Wednesday, Jan 16th, 2019. Connah’s Quay Angling Club is counting the cost of a mindless act of vandalism which took place earlier this week.  A brand new notice board at the Rosie Pool in Wepre Park has been trashed by vandals just three days after being put up. The incident is understood to have …

We’ve seen a spate of tuna sightings in UK waters and, in turn, there has been a push for a change in the legislation to allow anglers to fish for them. Big game fish could prove to be a valuable resource from Cornwall, through the Celtic deeps off south-west Wales and throughout the Western Isles of Scotland, where there have …

THE weather’s been a bit all over the place. It’s gone from shorts and T-shirt back to scraping the car in the morning and flurries of snow to start the week. The general rise in pressure and temperatures should make it a good weekend for fishing even if it’s a bit damp, though. I’m going to try to get out …

WITH a lot of trout fishing, there is so much focus on the latest technology, the latest lures or the must-have new fly-tying material – but sometimes going back to the basics is all you need. I got a bit of simplified fishing in this week. I took a trip to the bait pond on a local fishery with a …