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Salmon smolt tagged in Dorset Frome caught off Greenland

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Trout and Salmon, 10 August 2010 15:00

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has reported the first evidence that salmon from the River Frome and presumably other south coast rivers in England feed off the coast of Greenland. At the Trust’s Salmon and Trout Research Centre on the River Frome, near Wareham in Dorset, every spring, scientists catch and tag salmon smolts as they swim down river ...

 

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Salmon smolt tagged in Dorset Frome caught off Greenland

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Trout and Salmon,
10 August 2010 15:00

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has reported the first evidence that salmon from the River Frome and presumably other south coast rivers in England feed off the coast of Greenland. At the Trust’s Salmon and Trout Research Centre on the River Frome, near Wareham in Dorset, every spring, scientists catch and tag salmon smolts as they swim down river ...

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Salmon leaps onto concrete canal towpath

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Angling Times, 23 July 2010 15:30

When Gloucestershire angler Neil Lawrence went for a session on his local Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, the last thing he expected to see was a near-20lb salmon. But the size and species of fish was only half the surprise. “I was just sitting there minding my own business and happily fishing when it leapt out of the water and landed ...

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Russia and Norway report good salmon catches

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Trout and Salmon, 22 June 2010 17:00

The opening of the 2010 salmon seasons in Russia and Norway has brought some welcome new internet coverage – not to mention significant catches to the fly-rod. First to open, on May 16, was Russia’s Varzuga river, a huge river system on the southern side of the Kola Peninsula. Here, Roxtons control, with their Russian partners, fishing on their Lower, Middle, ...

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Game fishing world divided over English stillwater salmon fishery

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Angling Times, 21 May 2010 12:00

You don’t need to travel to prestigious Scottish rivers to catch huge salmon, as two friends proved this week when they ‘fulfilled lifelong ambitions’ by banking fish to over 30lb from a small purpose-built salmon stillwater. Disabled angler William Knapper and his friend John Heley took a trio of huge salmon weighing 24lb, 29lb 4oz and 34lb from Palm Springs ...

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Enormous salmon caught from Hampshire Avon

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Angling Times, 14 May 2010 15:30

Here's one of the biggest salmon - caught by a fly fisherman - off the Hampshire Avon in recent memory. Weighing in at well over 30lb, the hugely impressive and increasingly rare fish was hooked by Stewart Allum from the middle reaches of the Hampshire Avon below Fordingbridge. It was the experienced all-rounder’s first-ever salmon on the fly, and was taken during ‘perfect ...

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River Tweed Commission imposes catch and release until July

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Trout Fisherman, 10 May 2010 11:14

The River Tweed Commissioners have imposed a conservation ban on the taking of any salmon or grilse until after June 30. The ban was introduced on April 22 and brings the Scottish river into line with those in England and Wales. All Tweed tributaries are affected by the restriction, which stipulates that all salmon be returned carefully to the river ...

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Prime Tweed autumn salmon fishing to be auctioned in June

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Trout and Salmon, 10 May 2010 10:54

Some of Britain’s best autumn salmon angling is catalogued in the 2010 Annual Auction in aid of the Tweed Foundation. 34 lots are on offer including prime fishings on many of the Tweed’s most illustrious beats. Guide prices range from £2500 down to £100. Full details of the auction are available at www.tweedfoundation.org.uk. Alternatively contact Fay Hieatt on 01896 848271 for ...

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Free River Tweed salmon fishing – to those who can afford it!

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Trout and Salmon, 12 April 2010 16:30

There is nothing quite like the line: free Tweed salmon fishing, to engage the interest of readers of Trout and Salmon and other game-fishers. In this case the fishing is on the exclusive Milne Graden beat of the Tweed, near Coldstream, but there is a catch. Would be fishers would have to stay at School House, a 3-bedroom and 3-bathroom property ...

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Enormous Ferox trout caught from Loch Awe

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Trout and Salmon, 12 April 2010 16:22

Following the opening of Loch Awe last month, pictures have emerged of a stunning ferox trout of 26 lb 8 oz that was taken by Wullie Colquhoun on open day itself, March 15. The huge trout had clearly not spawned last autumn and was in peak condition, having enjoyed months of feeding in the depths of the loch. Ron Greer, ...

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First springer from Kelso Angling Association beat of River Teviot

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Trout and Salmon, 29 March 2010 12:27

The first springer from the Kelso Angling Association beat of the River Teviot was caught and released by Colin Brown who is seen here (right) receiving the Tweedside Tackle Teviot Trophy from Tim Pilcher in Edinburgh’s Ashley Ainsley Hospital on March 25. Colin, a long-time member of Kelso AA, caught his fish, an eight-pounder from the Castle pool on the ...

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