Source: Frontiers UK Recruitment and year class strength of juvenile Atlantic salmon has been monitored annually in River Miðfjarðará since... Read More
New US Federal Policy Steps Up Efforts to Turn Gulf of Mexico Rigs Into Reefs. Changes should help reverse the unnecessary destruction of important fish habitat and continue providing sport anglers with some of the best fish holding areas in the Gulf. Read More
“Everything is perfect at the bottom of the steps.” -As quoted by Ian Irvine, longtime Ponoi angler and star/narrator of The Incomparable Ponoi. Ian returned to Ponoi this week with fellow angler Dick Penley, and together they brought into camp a whopping thirty years combined experience on the river. 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
Drogheda, Ireland is the location for the 30th annual meeting of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO). The main function of NASCO is to conserve, restore, enhance and rationally manage Atlantic salmon through international cooperation taking account of the best available scientific information. Read More
Scotland’s largest salmon producer is set to publish data on sea lice. Marine Harvest has signalled its intention to seek formal certification from the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). That means it will have to comply with the ASC’s farm-by-farm sea lice data publication requirement.
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Casting for Recovery (CFR) is proud to announce that the premium fly reel manufacturer Abel of Camarillo, CA, has signed on as a Merchandising Partner of Casting for Recovery's Quality of Life Program for women with breast cancer. Read More
Pure Fishing Inc., a leading global provider of fishing tackle, has purchased Hardy & Greys Ltd, the well-known UK provider of fishing tackle for fly, carp, sea and coarse segments around the world, marketed under the Hardy Bros.®, Hardy®, Greys® and Chub® brands. Read More
The Atlantic Salmon Federation report that many rivers have great conditions of water level and temperature right now, and it is time to think about live release again. Have you pinched down the barbs on all hooks? If you use a net, is it either plastic coated, rubber, or smooth and knotless? Read More
At their Wednesday meeting in Lakeland, The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), unanimously approved new regulations to make tarpon and bonefish catch-and-release-only fisheries, making Florida the first State to do so. Read More
Controversy has arisen over the catch and kill of a 1,323lb Shortfin Mako Shark in California which is a potential new world record. There is nothing illegal about this but is it moral some are asking, especially if a big female like this could be carrying many new pups. Read More
The small but delightful village of Boca Grande in Lee County, south west Florida recently played host once more to the "World's Richest" Tarpon Tournament. This annual competition brings interest from anglers across the USA and around the world. Two afternoons of competition chasing the giant tarpon of Boca Grande Pass brought lots of action. Read More
In early May on the Island of Rügen, the largest Atlantic salmon ever caught in Germany with rod and reel was landed. Dieter Schmidt of Wolfsburg lured the 125cm giant with a Rhino Xtra Mag Spoon in the color pattern "Rügen Special“. When weighed the specimen turned out to be an enormous 24.3 kg (53.5lb). Read More
In June 2012 the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Fisheries department were successful in their 2.5 million Euro Interreg IVA channel programme funding application to the EU. The project is called MorFish – Monitoring For Migratory Fish and involves working in partnership with the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) based in Rennes, Brittany. Read More
Top London-based fishing and outdoor pursuit’s retailer Farlows have announced that agreement has been reached with Vladimir Rybalchenko of Kharlovka Co. and the Atlantic Salmon Reserve for the use of the Farlows name on his new game fishing store in St Petersburg in Russia. Read More
It was another week of great friends, interesting weather and good sized salmon here on the north coast! Although we started out again with bright sunny skies and very warm temperatures of 25+ degrees C, by early week there was thunder and lightning followed by heavy rains and the odd snow flurry. Read More
Known as a leader in the field of fly fishing gear development, the annual announcement of next seasons new collection from Sage is eagerly awaited to see what the guys and girls up on Bainbridge Island have been working away on for the past months and often much longer. Read More
Sue Scott, VP Communications of the Atlantic Salmon Federation, explains the concerns raised by the increasing harvest of wild Atlantic salmon in Greenland while returns to native rivers in North American have fallen considerably. Read More
Anglers are celebrating a bumper salmon season on the River Tay according to this report from STV News. Some beats are reporting catches of more than double those in recent years — and many say a policy of returning caught fish is helping. Read More
We have shared some of Matt Dunkinson's fishing films before on our websites that featured the English chalk streams as well as fly fishing for harbour mullet and bass but now this great 5 minute video has been put together by Matt to showcase some of the best of what UK fly fishing has to offer. Read More
The Orvis Company, Inc. of Manchester, Vermont today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Scientific Anglers and Ross Reels businesses from 3M (NYSE:MMM). Read More