Fishing

We all have a favoured location on this earth, to which we escape every now and then – a place where one is relaxed, happy and content, although it would be hard to give a reason for these pleasant sentiments. […]

Anthony Rees gets an insight from John Ellis about canals In Wales *First published in Welsh Country Magazine Jan-Feb 2017 The canals that run through Wales offer the angler some excellent fishing and with this in mind I asked John […]

It has been said that angling is the best of all pastimes and if the Good Lord created a better one then he must have kept it for himself! Who am I to argue with that? In fact to me […]

To me angling is the greatest of all hobbies and if the Good Lord made a better one then he must have kept it for himself. I can vouch that it is a hobby for life as I am currently […]

The inquiry into the Salmon Byelaws in 2019 made some recommendations that other problems to the survival of salmon stocks also needed to be looked at. One of those was the predation of juvenile salmon both in river and when […]

Looking back at 2020 as a member of and being involved in running an angling club I have realised the value of angling not only to the economy but to people’s health in general. One of the most striking things […]

Have you ever been committed enough to complete a challenge spanning a whole country? Tony Mair decided to catch a river trout from all 22 ‘counties’ in Wales; a mission that he eventually completed across several adventure filled seasons. Here […]

Why not investigate your local river or stream, contact Affonydd Cymru? Will we ever be able to control invasive non native species? When the salmon season ended on the 17th October surprising results have come in from all over Wales […]

Wales has been renowned over the years that I have been fishing for producing top class fly anglers. These people have in the main been fishing for trout and salmon. Over the years coarse anglers began to fish for their […]

In 2018 Gwent Angling society based in South Wales embarked on a programme to show how important Angling is/was to the Welsh economy. They did detailed research and presented it at the highest level of Government and to the national […]