
DUKE IV Ramsgate Report by Bob Marshall Click Here to visit Duke IV web site We are currently enjoying some great fishing around Ramsgate with Cod, Pollock & Bass on the wrecks and the inshore fishing has improved with Skate, Smoothounds and Bass. As is always the case here these fish are keen not to [...]
Signing in is at the DABA club house, 5 Oxford Street, Dartmouth. Signing in times are Fri 20th April 7.30pm – 9.30pm or on the Saturday 21st April and Sunday 22nd April between 7.00am – 9.00am. The weigh in will be at the DABA club house between 5.00pm - 6.00pm on the Saturday 21st April [...]
60′ North, Shetland at it’s best, New Scottish Turbot Record OBERON Report bySkipper John Keggie Click HERE to visit Oberon web site The Scottish Turbot record has been broken twice in 24 hours, the record has stood for 28 years and now it will be held by Eddie Christie who had a magnificent fish of [...]
Mistress Whitby Skipper Chris Cope Click HERE to visit Mistress Web Site Our regular readers will remember we did a run up to Whitby last year in search of some Yorkshire Congers which was an unusual ask given Whitby is a predominately Cod port and almost always fished on the drift. We wanted a skipper [...]
Many of our regular readers will have followed this story but for those who haven’t here is the Story ‘Sad but True’ of how a bye law has cost a staggering £120.00 of tax payers money. Here we offer the story of events leading to this prosecution and how events came full circle. The Twelve Meter Byelaw. [...]
Posted on 13 March 2012
Sussex Angling Code of Conduct An angling code of conduct has been drawn up for Sussex by SSAN with the help of the EA and IFCA’s The full text is Draft Sussex Advisory Angling Code of Conduct As a means to present Sussex RSAs as both responsible and creditable, as local councils are reviewing their [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 February 2012
1st February 2012 WEST BAY SEA ANGLING: Dad beats son in New Years Day duel HUGH Rathbone started 2012 in fine style by winning the New Years Day match beating son Steven into second place. Hugh’s haul of six dogfish and two pout weighing 4690grms was too much for Steven (4300grms) with Lea Windsor (4260grms) [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 February 2012
Bad news for North Sea cod hunters by Roy Webster Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:39 AM The top survival rate of cod larvae this century was in 2005, but the fish of that year class were virtually wiped out within three years, according to European fishery scientists and our own Centre for Environment, Fisheries [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 13 December 2011
WHITBY GAZETTE Garbutt impresses in Sunday fishing match Published on Tuesday 13 December 2011 16:48 SUNDAY night’s four-hour Whitby Sea Anglers’ match looked promising with long distant north westerly swells and a gentle westerly wind. Low water was at 2241 hrs on a 1.1m, so for the entire match, the tide was ebbing. However, many [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 December 2011
NEWS IN BRIEF Thornton wins as Southport Sea Anglers battle wind Dec 1 2011 by Joe Thomas, Southport Visiter WITH the recent gale force winds leaving a heavy swell and breaking seas, Southport Sea Angling Club braved the conditions to fish at Kinglake Road, Wallasey, last Sunday. Plenty of fish were caught [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 November 2011
Fishing leaders stunned by ‘hammer blow’ squeeze on fleet’s days at sea Published on Saturday 26 November 2011 13:11 // SCOTTISH fishermen’s leaders have reacted with fury to moves by the European Commission to impose even deeper cuts in the number of days they will be allowed to fish next year. Earlier this month the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 14 November 2011
14 November 2011 Last updated at 07:50 // Cornish angler washed off rocks by wave An angler from Cornwall is critically ill in hospital after he was washed off rocks by a wave at Rinsey Head near Porthleven. Falmouth coastguard said the man was in rough seas for at least 20 minutes. He was with [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 11 November 2011
Friday 11 November 2012 Briefing for the Fisheries Debate in the House of Commons Tuesday November 15th 2011 The Angling Trust is the new united organisation for all anglers in England. Our membership comprises nearly 1,500 angling clubs, fisheries and riparian owners with a collective membership of more than 350,000 anglers. Recreational angling [...] Continue Reading