When We Fish Again After nearly two months in lockdown, we can now get out on banks, beaches and in boats, but only on a limited basis. To make sure the voice of angling was heard the Angling Trust lobbied the government with a detailed plan on angling resumption – details of this effort here READ MORE
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When Will We Fish Again
It’s been many weeks since the lockdown was applied and like most other sports angling has been stopped. It is immensely frustrating for all of us, particularly for boat anglers. Typically, the weather has been near perfect for 6 weeks but we’ve not been able to get out and fish for plaice, bream and other READ MORE
Why anglers should engage with the 2020 Sea Angling Diary project.
Over the last six months or so DEFRA have been engaging recreational sea angling groups, including the Angling Trust, B.A.S.S, the Mullet Club the Angling Trades Association and others, in a consultation process designed to share and develop Defra’s current approach to recreational sea fishing policy development, develop thinking on current data collection processes to READ MORE
Good news for bass anglers in 2020 – TWO fish per trip from March
Despite all the hard work over 2019 it still came as a surprise when just before Christmas the EU agreed to increase the bag limit and season for recreational bass catches to two fish per day for nine months of the year – from March to November – in 2020. Anglers have been restricted to READ MORE
Latest News: Giant sharks in Cornwall, Penn Big Fish Competition winner, monster Couches Bream and other news.
Penn Big Fish winner for October. This months winner is Rob Cornish with a bass of 5lb 6oz, caught on board the Robert Clare out of Milford Haven. He was drawn out as the winner in our latest Penn Big Fish Draw. He progresses to the final, held next spring at a venue to be confirmed, READ MORE
Super Trawlers: The Margiris
Now all of my blogs are about angling matters…but for this one I am focussing on something which affects our fishing opportunities and is causing waves across the angling community. Super Trawlers! There has been a lot of recent noise all over social media, and elsewhere, about a super trawler, the Margiris, which has been READ MORE
Ken Savage wins the Big Fish Draw for September…and other issues.
Penn Big Fish Competition The latest winner of the Big fish draw was made recently and the lucky winner is Ken Savage who bagged a 32lb tope while fishing from Laugharne in West Wales. Congratulations to Ken and he’ll be fishing in the Big Fish final next spring. Keep sending the fish pictures in to READ MORE
Jamie Cook appointed as new Chief Executive of the Angling Trust
The Angling Trust announced the appointment of a new Chief executive to replace Mark Lloyd, who left at the end of June to join the Rivers Trusts. Jamie Cook was appointed after an exhaustive recruitment process and having met him I can safely say it is an excellent decision. There were a number of very READ MORE
John Watton wins the First Penn Big Fish Draw – and is our first finalist
Big Fish Finalist After announcing a new sponsorship deal with Penn for our competition we can reveal the winner of the first draw held at the end of June. The lucky angler is John Watton who caught a monster 60lb tope at Causeway Bell in Pwhelli. John will have the chance to win £1000 of Penn READ MORE
2019 Looe Shark Festival
Tim Macpherson pays a visit with the Angling Trust’s Head of Marine, David Mitchell, to this year’s shark festival and goes out with some of the competitors on Murray Collings boat Swallow II The annual shark festival in Looe has been going for many years and attracts 15 plus boats and 60 or so Shark anglers READ MORE