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Anglers in Cumbria got an unpleasant surprise when the River Kent's water levels finally began to fall this spring. A foul-smelling, cloudy discharge of sewage effluent became evident, gushing from temporary outfall pipes at United Utilities' Kendal Waste Water Treatment Works, which had suffered serious damage from Storm Desmond.

Sea lice at Scottish salmon farms run by Sainsbury's supplier yet again threatening west coast wild salmon and sea trout. Challenge to supermarket to replace earlier 'warm words' with robust action. S&TCS calls on Sainsbury's to refuse to accept farmed fish from sea-lice infested farms and to support the S&TCS campaign to change the law to protect wild salmon and sea trout

The competition has been running for a few weeks now but there's still plenty of time to share one or more of your stories with...the world!

The Angling Trust is inviting junior shore anglers to get involved in the 2016 England Talent Pathway programme.

From its humble beginnings within the makeshift workshop of a Finnish fisherman, to the multi-national operation that it is today; the Rapala lure company is one of very few fishing lure manufacturers who can claim to have withstood the test of time, as we celebrate 80 years of Rapala's Original Finnish Minnow during the year of 2016.

Specimen anglers and species hunters are being reminded to return all bass alive to the sea from now until July 1st 2016 in line with the EU conservation measures for 2016.

Like most fishing-minded people, I'm sure, I have a massive bucket list of fish I wish to catch one day. Golden dorado, GT, Atlantic salmon, tarpon, grayling and redfish to name a few, and at the top of my list for some time was the African tiger fish.

As someone who lists among his interests fishing, the environment and politics it is always an intriguing moment for me when these themes collide. And so it was the other day when, after months of furious lobbying and agitation about the need to conserve stocks of sea bass in the North Atlantic fishery, we finally had our day in the chamber of the House of Commons.

Dave Tipping is a cornerstone of modern angling, quietly 'getting on with it' and modestly recounting his many accomplishments for over four decades. He has been a contributor to most of our popular magazines and, more recently, to the excellent Waterlog Magazine. It's good to have him here too... (FM)

Even as a fervent athiest I fleetingly pondered the possibility of holy intervention the day I discovered the most beautiful, un-fished stretch of the Gt. Ouse a few years back.