Yesterday one rod fishing the Varzuga river caught 62 salmon in a day – just four short of the world record set in the mid-Nineties. In honour of this feat, we here publish in full Charlie White's post of this morning from Roxton's Varzuga blog which shows that a week into the Russian season, the fishing now is in full swing Read More
Here's an update from Frontiers frontman Tarquin Millington-Drake as the legendary River Ponoi, which combines the salmon numbers of the south Kola with the bigger fish of the North, gets ready for their own Russian season start. Read More
Well-known names from the world of fishing, book launches including Fish&Fly introducing Topher Browne, author of Atlantic Salmon Magic on Saturday at 12.45pm, plus the first ever Twitter "tweetup" organised by the Angling Trust are just some of the activities on the schedule at the House of Fishing at this years 2011 CLA Game Fair. Read More
These pictures from Monday have raised eyebrows amongst my friends, and indeed are impressive in their biblical, dawn-of-time way. Of... Read More
Once again an organisation set up and funded by international governments has failed to do the very job for which it was created. This time the wild Atlantic salmon, already struggling to recover from years of commercial overfishing, disease and parasites from salmon farms, will be the victim of public sector time wasting and intransigence. Read More