Fishing for the truth about angling in Scotland
IF YOU weren’t watching More4 at 10:00 tonight you missed a real treat – the first UK television screening of The End of the Line, Rupert Murray’s remarkable documentary film which is changing the way people think about the future of the world’s sea fish populations. Immensely watchable; immensely frightening, it charts the activities of…
Continue ReadingENVIRONMENT minister Richard Lochhead has won cautious praise for following up quickly on his pledge to create a Scottish sea angling strategy group. Steve Bastiman, chairman of the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN), the principal campaigners for Government action to protect and revitalise inshore fish stocks, revealed today that it has had a preliminary…
Continue ReadingNOT ALL fishing books are about the mechanics of it all. Sure we all need to have insights into the seemingly infinite permutations of rod, line, hooks, bait, wind and wave which make the gentle art of angling so absorbing. Unquestionably I would have been less of an angler without the wisdom gleaned from Sawyer…
Continue ReadingSOMETIMES IT is necessary to do things back to front and start with the end of a story. This one finishes in the early autumn frosts of northern Canada, amongst the stunted pines and endless impenetrable wilderness of the sub-Arctic tundra with the howl of the timber wolf providing a haunting sound track to the…
Continue ReadingHIGHER LEVELS of catch-and-release by sea trout anglers will be called for in Scotland next year following the publication today of Government figures for 2008 rod catches which show the species is still in decline. By contrast, rod catches of salmon at 85,859 were up 5.7% against the 2003-2007 five year average and the number…
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