Skip to content

Angling Times Breaking News

News

You looked for...

and found 8 items

Matches found in News

Featured item image

Brown trout relocated as Cumbria waits for rain

rating is 2.5

Trout Fisherman, 02 July 2010 11:20

Brown trout have had to be relocated from a Lake District tarn after long spells of dry weather left the oxygen supply dangerously low as water levels dropped. Volunteers from the South Lakes Rivers Trust and the Coniston and Crake Partnership stunned the trout in Yew Tree Tarn with electrical signals and then fished them out for transportation to a ...

 

Results 1 - 8 of 8

Leading article image

Brown trout relocated as Cumbria waits for rain

rating is 2.5

Trout Fisherman,
02 July 2010 11:20

Brown trout have had to be relocated from a Lake District tarn after long spells of dry weather left the oxygen supply dangerously low as water levels dropped. Volunteers from the South Lakes Rivers Trust and the Coniston and Crake Partnership stunned the trout in Yew Tree Tarn with electrical signals and then fished them out for transportation to a ...

Leading article image

Loch Leven brown trout on the increase

rating is 0

Trout Fisherman, 22 March 2010 15:25

After three decades in the doldrums, Loch Leven’s brown trout population is believed to be undergoing a revival. Scottish Natural Heritage officers have found an increase in spawning levels in rivers serving the Kinross loch. They claim that fishermen are now returning to the loch and that trout measuring up to 50cm had been caught. The loch declined in the ...

Leading article image

Norfolk river trout given help to reach spawning ground

rating is 2

Trout Fisherman, 08 March 2010 11:34

Fish in Norfolk’s River Nar have been given assistance in reaching their spawning grounds. Brown and sea trout, the latter entering the Nar from the sea at King’s Lynn, have previously struggled to negotiate a three feet-high weir at nearby Pentney but now the Environment Agency and the Wild Trout Trust have spent £10,000 on special ramps to help the ...

Leading article image

Trout and salmon eggs saved by Rivers Trust staff

rating is 3.5

Trout Fisherman, 13 January 2010 12:22

Rivers Trust staff braved the snows of north-east Scotland to rescue some 100,000 fertilised salmon and trout eggs, after a hatchery collapsed on the Drummuir Estate near Keith. Several feet of snow had built up at the tunnel-type hatchery, which eventually collapsed despite attempts to support the structure with timber. The accumulation of snow and ice not only made the ...

Leading article image

New Zealand trout anglers benefit from mice population explosion

rating is 0

Trout Fisherman, 11 January 2010 16:39

While the talk on this side of the world is of frozen rivers and impassable roads, trout fishing is booming Down Under, where a population explosion in mice is being credited with some mighty browns falling to New Zealand anglers. Fish and Game manager Maurice Rodway, whose son Ewen caught a 10lb fish on Boxing Day, said anglers are catching ...

Leading article image

Trout catch reports from Lake District stillwaters

rating is 0

Trout Fisherman, 22 July 2009 11:07

On Lake District stillwaters, high water temperatures and heavy showers have made fishing intermittent. Trout have been rising at Bigland but are reluctant to take dries. Damsel nymphs or lures have been an effective alternative. At Esthwaite Water, fish are between 10 and 20 feet down and focusing on daphnia and fry. Fast sinking lines and lures, often on the ...

Leading article image

Great catch returns recorded at Midlands trout venues

rating is 4

Trout Fisherman, 15 July 2009 09:21

Last week saw 284 anglers take 604 fish at Draycote Water. The best was a 7lb 12oz brown caught from a boat near the Draycote Dam. The week’s best rainbow tipped the scales at 8lb 12oz. The best areas for boats have been the Cornfield and Draycote Dam. Bank areas have varied with the wind, but Cornfield, Rainbow Corner, Tower ...

Leading article image

Somerset trout fishing prospects

rating is 0

Trout Fisherman, 24 June 2009 11:15

Bank and boat fishing at Chew Valley, near Bristol, improved quickly after a restocking early last week, according to a report in The Wiltshire Times. The Times said that fish have been found very close inshore at Wick, Nunnery, Woodford, Walley and North Shore, with early morning and late evening being the best times and most fish succumbing to dries ...

Results

Now your turn

Show us what you've got. Upload photos and videos to your gallery.

Upload your photos & videos
Friday, 30 July 2010