Home team hopes are high of medal success in this year’s World Fly Fishing Championships which for the first time take place in Scotland.

A GROUND-BREAKING agreement between netsmen and anglers to conserve spring salmon runs in some of Scotland’s best known west coast waters, has been struck by the Lochaber District Salmon Fishery Board (LDSFB). The deal which covers rivers like the Lochy, Coe, Shiel and Leven, will run for six years, and delivers: zero netting until May…

Canadian study condemns beavers as having a ‘major adverse impact’ on migratory fish such as salmon and sea trout.

The emergency meeting of the Loch Lomond Angling Improvement Association last week, delivered a victory for the existing committee but no mandate for the status quo. So what next?

Save The Doon salmon campaigners unite and petition gathers strength

Scottish Power issued the following statement to Between The Lines today following a request for an explanation about why it was necessary to change river abstraction levels. In order to meet the forthcoming requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive, Scottish Power have been working on proposals in conjunction with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency…

Scotland were pushed into third position behind Wales and England in the spring home international fly-fishing competition at Chew on Friday. The Scots, led by Jock Kettles, equalled the Welsh for numbers of fish – 44 –  but lost out at the weigh-in. Kettles with nine fish for 16.1lb was fourth in the overall individual…

Stirling Council backs down over its insistence that anglers release all salmon caught on its waters during May and June

Loch Lomond’s game fishing administrators survived a vote on their future by just six votes at an emergency meeting in Glasgow.