By Dominic Garnett, fishing author & Digital Content Creator for the Angling Trust With basic tackle being cheap to buy and Environment Agency fishing licences for kids now FREE, angling must be one of the easiest summer activities for families. But what’s the best way to get into fishing? Here’s my quick guide to getting…
Joining us in a new role at the Angling Trust this month, Dominic Garnett brings his skills as writer, blogger and photographer to the team. Here, we catch some of his thoughts on the new job and current aims. “First of all, it’s an honour to join the Angling Trust in a professional role. As…
When it comes to stopping the spread of Invasive Non Native Species, anglers can make a huge difference, says Angling Trust Invasive Non Native Species Manager Emily Smith. The phrase ‘’an ounce of prevention or pound of cure’’ is often used to talk about invasive species, where stopping their initial introduction is seen as being…
For a hundred years now, rightly, women have had the right to vote. Women have been acknowledged and celebrated as individuals in our society and many of the greatest minds of the past, present, and I am sure the future have been female. Yet Angling still feels like it lags a little. However, times are…
About a year ago I wrote a couple of blogs, one about the changes to the rod licence and one about how the Environment Agency (EA) spend the rod licence money. Well the EA have just published their annual Fisheries Reports for 2016/17. Which is basically a document which tells you what they have been spending…
With the government making announcements about tackling the amount of plastics in our seas and rivers, the banning of micro-beads in cosmetics and new rules around the use of carrier bags and food packaging in the offing, litter and plastic litter in particular is very much in the news at the moment. As anglers we…
Building Bridges on the Nene Phase II Nenescape Landscape Partnership Scheme is a Heritage Lottery funded project bringing together 11 partners to deliver 16 projects which will celebrate the Nene Valley and its heritage. The projects will research and promote the history of the river and its valley, encourage visitors and residents to explore it…
Angling Trust National Regions Manager John Cheyne looks back over the campaign to “Save Powick Weir” and celebrates a great result for fish and anglers alike….. After over a year of meetings, lobbying, Facebook fall-outs and protests I attended one of those meeting last week that reminds you that all the hard work is worthwhile. For…
This week, Rado Papiewski shares a much needed update on the valuable work he and his team do in educating the migrant anglers and integrating them smoothly into the local angling population!
The Angling Trust’s own magazine The Angler is due to be sent out to members very shortly. In this little taster of what the magazine contains, our National Regions Manager discusses the difficulty of explaining to non-anglers, just what it is that is so special about fishing. The American nature writer and angler, Paul Scullery, once…
Rivers and lakes suffer quite a lot due to things that humans do. Humans pollute them, dump rubbish in them, straighten them, deepen them, concrete the banks, drive boats up and down them and generally abuse them. So it’s no wonder that sometimes, they struggle to support the healthy fish populations that we as anglers…
This week, Ian Shepherd talks about his love for the sport and the important work that we do through the organisation of our regional forums.
