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Despite all the hard work over 2019 it still came as a surprise when just before Christmas the EU agreed to increase the bag limit and season for recreational bass catches to two fish per day for nine months of the year – from March to November – in 2020. Anglers have been restricted to READ MORE

Penn Big Fish winner for October. This months winner is Rob Cornish with a bass of 5lb 6oz, caught on board the Robert Clare out of Milford Haven. He was drawn out as the winner in our latest Penn Big Fish Draw. He progresses to the final, held next spring at a venue to be confirmed, READ MORE

Now all of my blogs are about angling matters…but for this one I am focussing on something which affects our fishing opportunities and is causing waves across the angling community. Super Trawlers! There has been a lot of recent noise all over social media, and elsewhere, about a super trawler, the Margiris, which has been READ MORE

Penn Big Fish Competition The latest winner of the Big fish draw was made recently and the lucky winner is Ken Savage who bagged a 32lb tope while fishing from Laugharne in West Wales. Congratulations to Ken and he’ll be fishing in the Big Fish final next spring. Keep sending the fish pictures in to READ MORE

The Angling Trust announced the appointment of a new Chief executive to replace Mark Lloyd, who left at the end of June to join the Rivers Trusts. Jamie Cook was appointed after an exhaustive recruitment process and having met him I can safely say it is an excellent decision. There were a number of very READ MORE

Big Fish Finalist After announcing a new sponsorship deal with Penn for our competition we can reveal the winner of the first draw held at the end of June. The lucky angler is John Watton who caught a monster 60lb tope at Causeway Bell in Pwhelli. John will have the chance to win £1000 of Penn READ MORE

Tim Macpherson pays a visit with the Angling Trust’s Head of Marine, David Mitchell, to this year’s shark festival and goes out with some of the competitors on Murray Collings boat Swallow II The annual shark festival in Looe has been going for many years and attracts 15 plus boats and 60 or so Shark anglers READ MORE

Sponsored by: Daiwa, Navionics, Sidewinder and Saltwater Boat Angling. Regular readers will remember our report on the inaugural event held on the August Bank Holiday weekend last year. Well this year, organised by a dedicated committee of anglers who fish the Mull regularly, including the Chair and local charter skipper Ian Burrett, it attracted 41 READ MORE

Barracuda World Tour Finals – Port de Crouesty – Arzon – Brittany Every year for the past three years I’ve been invited to fish in the Barracuda World Tour Finals in Brittany by Navionics France. The event is organised by Beneteau and is held out of Port du Crouesty, in Arzon and takes place over READ MORE

Following the publication of a research report by the New Economics Foundation into the affects of the new bass regulations Tim Macpherson boils down the headline conclusions. As we all know, us anglers have been subject to draconian restrictions on our bass fishing. Banned from taking any fish during the spawning season, banned from taking READ MORE