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Bury Hill fisheries have now banned treble hooks

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Angling Times, 02 July 2010 16:00

One of the biggest commercial fisheries in the country has banned treble hooks in order to protect its prized stock of predators. Bury Hill in Dorking, Surrey, arguably the UK’s finest stillwater fishery for pike and specimen zander, will now only permit anglers to use single barbless hooks after the owners claimed that they are not only much safer, but ...

 

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Bury Hill fisheries have now banned treble hooks

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Angling Times,
02 July 2010 16:00

One of the biggest commercial fisheries in the country has banned treble hooks in order to protect its prized stock of predators. Bury Hill in Dorking, Surrey, arguably the UK’s finest stillwater fishery for pike and specimen zander, will now only permit anglers to use single barbless hooks after the owners claimed that they are not only much safer, but ...

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Birmingham Angling Association to ban live baiting and introduce catch and release policy

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Angling Times, 19 March 2010 17:00

The country’s biggest fishing club has banned livebaiting and introduced a catch-and-release policy for all fish except zander. Birmingham Angling Association has taken the measures to coincide with new national fish removal byelaws from the Environment Agency which come into force next month. And, as part of a move that is sure to cause controversy with predator anglers, BAA club ...

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Birmingham Angling Association bans live baiting and fish removal

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Gofishing.co.uk, 16 March 2010 14:51

The nation's largest fishing club - Birmingham Angling Association - has banned live baiting and also introduced new catch-and-release rules covering all fish except zander. The BAA's change in rules coincide with the new Environment Agency byelaws governing fish removal which come into force in April. For more details on this story and the new byelaws read this week's Angling Times, out ...

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Gill netting has made Lake Windermere a great pike water

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Angling Times, 15 December 2009 10:41

“If it wasn’t for gill netting, Lake Windermere wouldn’t be half the fishery it is today.”That’s the controversial claim of Gord Burton, one of the most successful and well-respected pike anglers of all time, as gill netting at the premier predator water continues to incite anger in some quarters. Internet chatrooms went into meltdown as anglers reacted with shock and ...

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Massive Boddington Reservoir pike found dead

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Angling Times, 06 October 2009 11:34

In the week that Britain’s pikers return to the banks for the start of the predator season, Angling Times can reveal that one of the nation’s most prized specimens has been discovered dead at Boddington Reservoir. Weighing in at 43lb when the corpse was found, the predator stunned the big-fish world when it became the UK’s heaviest known stillwater pike ...

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Anglers flout fishing agreement on Horsey Mere

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Anonymous, 04 March 2008 15:29

A trial which has opened an area of privately owned Horsey Mere for pike fishing  is being jeopardised by anglers who have been caught fishing illegally without permits and outside the agreed area.  The Broads Authority is taking the breach of the permit system very seriously and the offences are currently being investigated pending prosecution. The fishing around the River ...

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Pike Bag Underlines Drain's Potential

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Anonymous, 25 January 2008 15:28

The North Level Drain in Cambridgeshire proved its potential during a recent pike match when the winner weighed in with four fish for 45lb 3oz. Jamie Cooper tempted his pike on smelt deadbaits to beat runner-up Colin Bartram by just over 4lb in the North Level Championship held at French Drove, near Thorney. Jamie's biggest pike went 19lb 2oz, a specimen that ensured ...

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Chew Pike and Trout Dates

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Anonymous, 11 December 2007 16:12

After a spectacular end of season finale that saw sixteen 30lb-plus pike banked, as well as some superb dry fly fishing, Bristol Water's Chew Valley Reservoir has just announced details of next year's fishing. Pike anglers will be itching to have another crack at Chew's huge specimens and they don't have long to wait... pike trials start up again for a week ...

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