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Liz Truss, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs, in a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference today (Wednesday 6 January) announced a number of measures which could increase the risk of flooding in towns and cities and cause widespread damage to the environment, according to the Angling Trust

Any sympathetic perceptions we may once have held about public services 'doing their best' are a thing of the past. Water companies have been private, profit-making enterprises for a long time now and, as such, they have an obligation to be both open and efficient. FM.

Any sympathetic perceptions we may once have held about public services 'doing their best' are a thing of the past. Water companies have been private, profit-making enterprises for a long time now and, as such, they have an obligation to be both open and efficient.

The following account of Bear's introduction to the Wye Valley was written from the heart and in the hope of spawning some dog 'n' fishing type stories from viewers. Geoff Maynard gave us 'Fishing with Hugo' some time back but that was something of a one-off: do you fish with a pooch? Has your dog embarrassed or assisted or protected you on the riverbank?

The article written by Martin and published in Coarse Angler in November 1989 was prior to any speculation about the captures being made in Canada. Martin told of how he stumbled upon some very big carp, 'On one particular morning, not having much else to do, I took myself off to look at a water which I had known about for some years but had paid no attention to'

Well, we haven't had a flake of snow, it hasn't stopped raining for weeks and it's warm enough to take out the rubbish in shorts and T-shirt.

There are now close to 800 posts on the FM thread 'Martin Gay's 50lb Common Carp - Here's the Evidence'. My response to a clutch of questions from one of our regular contributors was going to be brief but it's turned into something more substantial...