A disease that devastated wild salmon in Scottish rivers in the 1970s has been found in a fish taken from the River Spey, BBC Scotland has learned. Officials said it was not yet known how infectious this particular strain of Ulcerative Dermal Necrosis (UDN) was. Read More
Last week, pupils at Culmstock Primary School in Devon, UK welcomed some Atlantic salmon to their classroom and did their bit to help conserve one of the world's most iconic fish species, the Atlantic salmon. Read More
A BRIGHT TEN-POUNDER was the first salmon to be caught this week by the Roxtons advance party as they prepared the lower and middle Varzuga camps in readiness for their first rods who fly out there tomorrow. Read More
A fishing crew in Costa Rica caught and released a 300lb marlin that has set the international angling community abuzz.
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It’s a cold, dank day, with a vicious Northerly wind blowing down the valley. Hardly what I’d expect for the... Read More
A moratorium has been introduced in connection with an outbreak of disease in parts of the wild salmon stocks. Read More
Salmon Junkies (tag: 'We are hooked!') are renowned for not just a great name but also for the groups of adrenaline-fuelled salmon fishers they send out over the wilds of the southern Kola Peninsula to fish the Umba river and these days too, the upper Varzuga (or Grand Varzuga as they call it). Now it's September their focus is firmly on the River Umba from where their first autumn report arrives via Kåre Lundquist.. Read More
Garry Pereira loves the ‘bliss of solitude’, sitting, in the spirit of an actual fisherman, by rivers, streams and ponds... Read More
From Striped Bass to Sea Bass Two days spent on the bank with Joe. It had probably been the best... Read More
The Salmon & Trout Association and Afonydd Cymru have broadly welcomed Natural Resources Wales’, decision to end the use of cypermethrin in forestry by 2017. Read More
Do salmon farms help or hurt the declining wild salmon population? Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the controversy surrounding the multibillion dollar industry. Read More
by Dylan Brown, E&E news reporter The company behind the Pebble mine project in Alaska and U.S. EPA yesterday told... Read More
The UK premiere of the film and a talk by Keith Rose-Innes is to take place at Farlows on 16 September. Read More
Soon to be published government figures will show that in 2014 salmon numbers in England and Wales reached their lowest level ever. Read More
MURKY DAYS A feature this winter has been heavy frosts and several foggy days spent out on the bank, but... Read More
The excitement of a new Alphonse Season is always the silver lining behind the cloud of approaching winter for those of us in the northern hemisphere. Virgin flats, aggressive predatory species, relaxed milkfish, hungry bonefish and expert guides ready to help our fishers get at them all. Read More
I’ve been away for a while and haven’t seen the Wye for exactly a week. The blistering weather collapsed, and... Read More
Sage Fly Fishing, the well-known manufacturer of fly rods based in Bainbridge Island, Washington, is constructing, with partners, a fly-fishing... Read More
Join the Hooked UK team in Helmsdale for the opening of the Salmon season in Scotland in this Fly Fishing Channel programme.
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