FishingMagic Magazine

Fisheries Minister George Eustice, who has been strongly criticised by UK angling organisations for caving in to pressure from commercial fishing interests and supporting exemptions to the European Union bass fishing moratorium for the highly damaging bass gill net fishery, is now under fire for making false claims for the impacts on threatened stocks as a result of the decisions he supported last month at the European Union.

In response to Derek Gibson's Forum question, Steve Pope wrote: "Easiest way [to keep FM lively] is for those who post on the forum to write articles, the more the merrier"

FM's recent article on town-centre fishing certainly rang a bell with John Smith. Here he describes some of the sights and sounds - and smells - that keep him going back for more....

Eddie Benham has been a tench fisherman since time began but it wasn't until his discovery of a particularly good tench lake in the late noughties that the real monsters started coming to his net. With such prizes at stake, he couldn't afford to fish with anything less than the most reliable rigs and so he got to thinking...

  For many of us it is the most exciting period in the salmon angling calendar as the rivers begin to open up...

The Angling Trust's discussions with the Environment Agency on the vexed issues of the coarse angling rod licence for the use of multiple rods and charging juniors to fish look likely to produce a result that will please both youngsters and the many carp and specimen anglers who feel aggrieved at having to buy two separate rod licences.

...and you think we've got problems? Two Cambodian men have died violently in what is the third fatal accident related to illegal dynamite fishing this month.

The recent months-long deluge to hit this country has left the ground not just wet but absolutely saturated, and the dangers of this to river fishermen was really brought home to me yesterday on a brief visit to the Wye at Whitney Court.