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The UK needs to do much more if scientific advice is to be followed and sea bass stocks allowed to fully recover, the body representing anglers in England has claimed.

It's been really interesting talking to and debating with anglers and non anglers alike who tuned in on Sunday to watch the return of our favourite sport to the BBC with the first episode of The Big Fish presented by Matt Hayes and Ben Fogle.

  The idea of heading away on a trip of a lifetime for some tropical saltwater fly fishing never looks more appealing than...

The worldwide fishing expedition presented by Ben Fogle and judged by Matt Hayes continues, with the seven remaining anglers leaving the freezing cold of Iceland for the sunny climes of Cuba.

A year ago I arrived back from my first ever trip to the Isles Scilly and wrote a piece enthusing about the magic of these wonderful islands and the great fishing that is still to be had on Britain's most southwesterly archipelago.

Rob Hughes and his England carp squad have their sights set on bringing gold back to UK shores from this year's World Carp Fishing Championship in Spain.

A move of home and the filling in of our beloved pits and, of course, discovering whiskey and wild, wild women, reduced the amount of time spent fishing in my late teens and early twenties, although I did continue to go whenever I could.

It was certainly not the biggest I ever caught. To explain I will have to take you back; way, way back to daybreak on a summer morning in 1959.

My journalistic debut has been a difficult baptism for me but I have tried to provide good, honest and reliable evidence that was not generally known and was not taken into account by the Carp Society when they chose to discredit Martin's UK-caught carp. Comments can be made on a separate thread if readers wish.

The Angling Trust has joined campaigners calling on the Government and industry to improve England's rivers and lakes to the benefit of fishing.