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…
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…
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.
Angling Trust Fishery Management Advisor update – Jake Davoile and Richard Bamforth We are pleased that the renewal of our contract allows us to continue our work as Fishery Management Advisors with the Angling Trust for another two years, with our roles directly funded by rod licence money from the Environment Agency. We are available…
National Regions Administrator Ian Shepherd reflects on the start of the Coarse Fishing Season and talks about Fisheries Forums. Casting out at midnight on June 15th seemed surreal after spending my close season improving the fisheries I frequent the most. Getting a section of river ready for the new season can be hard work, with…
