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Keith Arthur - Hyped £50,000 match goes up in flames

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Keith Arthur, 09 March 2010 15:03

Well, it came in a blaze of publicity, carrying a ‘guaranteed, even if only three people enter’ £50k first prize and now ABC Fishing Club, aka Willis Worms match has died on its behind. The money is: ‘ring fenced and guaranteed by someone who spends more than that on his kids’ school fees each year.’ The club itself was as ...

 

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Keith Arthur - Hyped £50,000 match goes up in flames

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Keith Arthur,
09 March 2010 15:03

Well, it came in a blaze of publicity, carrying a ‘guaranteed, even if only three people enter’ £50k first prize and now ABC Fishing Club, aka Willis Worms match has died on its behind. The money is: ‘ring fenced and guaranteed by someone who spends more than that on his kids’ school fees each year.’ The club itself was as ...

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Keith Arthur: Don't buy pirate angling DVDs

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Keith Arthur, 04 March 2010 07:00

When I was in Key West, a wall plaque in the little cottage I stayed in advertised a local bar called ‘The Rum Barrel’. Their logo is: ‘Pirates, Passion, Plunder’. For the first week I thought it said: ‘Pirates, Passion and a Plumber’! Well, it is Key West. But on a more serious note, I am not in the least ...

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Keith Arthur: Fewer fish alive so the rest grow bigger

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Keith Arthur, 23 February 2010 12:37

Hard to imagine though it is, otters seem to be causing far more damage than mink, which are almost certainly around in far greater numbers. In my life I have only ever seen two otters in the wild, both run over and lying in the gutter in Portugal’s Algarve. In England I have seen countless mink, and will never forget ...

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Keith Arthur: No oxygen, no fish, no wonder!

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Keith Arthur, 09 February 2010 11:12

Having already read about a fair number of fish deaths this winter, caused by ice, I wonder what other area of ‘animal welfare’ would get away with what some fishery managers or owners do? Imagine keeping caged birds and having an aviary-full of perfectly healthy birds die from cold, or allowing a horse to die of thirst because its water ...

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Keith Arthur: You need to get your facts right

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Keith Arthur, 02 February 2010 16:25

They say there is no fool like an old fool and Roy Webster, angling columnist for the Eastern Daily Press, falls into that category. In fact the older he gets the more foolish he makes himself look because his exaggerations simply get bigger. I think he has a bit of a personal thing against John Wilson ¬ maybe because they ...

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Litter will sink angling

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Keith Arthur, 27 January 2010 10:32

Having seen two news reports from regional newspapers in the past week concerning angling¬ related litter, I was reminded of a quote given to angling journalist Keith Elliott some years ago. It was along the lines of: “People aren’t anti-angling, they are anti-anglers.” That really set me thinking and, do you know, this is a magnificent point. The pictures in ...

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Keith Arthur: What next in the name of conservation?

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Keith Arthur, 19 January 2010 14:10

Once again we have some ‘conservation’ do-gooders wanting to restore creatures that naturally disappeared from our land (it’s called ‘survival of the fittest’ = evolution!) centuries ago. This time it’s fish eagles. I doubt that they have that name because they eat cheese sandwiches but even if they never eat fish, we don’t want or need them, thanks very much. ...

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Keith Arthur: 2009 - good, bad and tragic.

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Keith Arthur, 05 January 2010 12:53

Hello 2010, goodbye 2009. Hello Teenies, goodbye Noughties. It’s hard to say whether 2009 was a good year for angling. If I were pressed I’d probably have to come down on the negative sides.   The Angling Trust The setting up of a unified representative body, the Angling Trust, was a cause for celebration, even if most anglers didn’t embrace ...

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Keith Arthur - Call for research on missing fish

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Keith Arthur, 23 December 2009 09:58

The news that barbel stocks are to be replenished in the River Wensum ¬ as they have been on other rivers where they are not successfully regenerating naturally ¬ is very welcome. I wish those involved, and especially the fish, good fortune every step of the way. I have, as usual, taken a slightly sideways step and thought about why ...

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Keith Arthur - stillwater barbel and chub will never break records

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Keith Arthur, 15 December 2009 12:41

I see that some people are speculating that chub and barbel, now being stocked into commercial stillwaters as carp continue to perish thanks to KHV, may be providing record-sized fish in the future. Logic tells me there is more chance of me taking a holiday on Venus. We’re not talking about low-stocked waters where fast-growing strains of fish are fed ...

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