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15/06/2017 - Back to the 1950's with Potatoes and Cane Rods.05/06/2017 - A Great Two Days Fishing 30/05/2017 - A Great Two Days Fishing 15/05/2017 - Go Target the Sea Trout this Summer 15/05/2017 - More News from the Water’s Edge 23/04/2017 - Some Day’s on the River 15/04/2017 - MERSEY BASIN RIVERS TRUST 25+ Mile Pollution Disaster River Irwell 12/04/2017 - Back to the Past with a Change of Direction 12/04/2017 - Time to take Care of your Equipment 12/04/2017 - New Season New Spring 12/04/2017 - Starting Fly Fishing 12/04/2017 - Starting Fly Fishing 16/03/2017 - A Disappointing End to the Season 04/03/2017 - Brace of Chub for Brendan 01/03/2017 - Lone Angler Cheese Mania does the Trick 24/02/2017 - A Few Days on the River Soar 09/02/2017 - Back Again On a Cold Bleak River 05/02/2017 - What I Thought Were Good Fish Catching Conditions Proved Otherwise 03/02/2017 - Can This Great Sport Get Any Better?01/02/2017 - 6 Good Chub in a 3 hour session 01/02/2017 - Bass rules clarified by Westminster and Cardiff 23/01/2017 - From Rubbish Site to Beautiful River 17/01/2017 - Lone Angler Cheese Paste a Float Rod Centre Pin Reel with a 6 Gram Clearwater float = Exciting Chub Action 14/01/2017 - One Bite one Fish in sub-zero temperatures 10/01/2017 - Brace of Chub from Fast Flowing Ribble 09/01/2017 - Some Ideas to Help You in the Last Few Weeks of the Season 31/12/2016 - A Brace of 5lb chub to End 2016 26/12/2016 - Chub pounce on Lone Angler cheese paste-Martin James MBE 21/12/2016 - Major pollution incident on River Teifi highlights national failure of government to tackle agricultural pollution 19/12/2016 - Some Interesting Fishing – Also a Good Bait Mix 13/12/2016 - Don’t be put off fishing in sub-zero temperatures 13/12/2016 - I Had A Good Mixed Bag - A Brace of 9 lb plus Barbel for Kevin 09/12/2016 - Great Loss to Angling – The Man Who Stood Alongside Dick Walker 09/12/2016 - Government Agency Highlights 'Major Adverse Effect' on Fish from Proposed Tidal Lagoon 09/12/2016 - Sainsbury’s and the Co-Op called upon to give ultimatums to farmed salmon suppliers to protect iconic west coast wild salmon and sea trout populations. Green credentials on the line?05/12/2016 - Political support grows for ban on bass nets 19/11/2016 - A Window of Opportunity 27/10/2016 - Angling Trust and B.A.S.S 'broadly welcome' new EU bass conservation plans 24/10/2016 - Good Pike on First Session of the Autumn 20/10/2016 - An Exciting Hour Catching Chub 18/10/2016 - Don't Be Put Off Fishing in Cold Weather - Martin James 09/10/2016 - Thomas & Thomas Announces the Release of Avantt Freshwater Fly Rods 09/10/2016 - Thomas & Thomas Announces the Release of Contact Series Fly Rods 29/09/2016 - Lone Angler landing net handle will do the job 19/09/2016 - The Little Egret Press Newsletter September 2016 06/09/2016 - A Return To The Past Of My Youth 19/08/2016 - Lone Angler Sausage Sizzle Flavoured Corn For chub 25/07/2016 - A Tale Of Woe – But It Gets Better 14/07/2016 - Lone Angler Cheese Dumbells and Paste Prove A Winner 11/07/2016 - Tench the Fish of Summer 02/07/2016 - A Few Chub From My Local River 29/06/2016 - Lone Angler Tackle Review 28/06/2016 - Another Day Another Place 21/06/2016 - My First River Session of the season 19/06/2016 - Fenland Fishing 07/06/2016 - 3 Hours of Pure Bliss 05/06/2016 - Rod Review 05/06/2016 - The Secret Pool 05/06/2016 - The Secret Pool Part 2 17/03/2016 - Obituary John Turner 1926 - 2016 16/03/2016 - Kennet was Perfection 28/02/2016 - Return to the Kennet 21/02/2016 - Lead us to Victory Boris 14/02/2016 - Trotting for Grayling 07/02/2016 - The Little Egret Press 02/02/2016 - Storm Henry pushed me off the River 02/02/2016 - A Horrid Session On The River 26/01/2016 - Fisheries Minister under fire for false claims over bass landings 12/01/2016 - Hard Going On The Ribble 10/01/2016 - A Good Session On The Ribble - But It Wasn’t Easy 02/01/2016 - Carp Now and Then – Rod Hutchinson 02/01/2016 - Some Highlights in 2015 17/12/2015 - Fishing Ministers accused of 'shameful conservation con trick' over bass stocks 16/12/2015 - Another Success for Lone Angler Cheese flavour On The River Ribble 14/12/2015 - Go Catch a Winter Barbel 10/12/2015 - Some Great News and Lets All Raise Our Voice In Support 05/12/2015 - A Big Trout Probably Pushed The Chub From My Swim 05/12/2015 - A Good Christmas Read 26/11/2015 - Thomas and Thomas New Website 26/11/2015 - New Technology 25/11/2015 - Chub Wanted My Lone Angler Cheese Paste 20/11/2015 - Government Announces New Draft Measures to Address Failing Salmon Stocks 20/11/2015 - Winter Has Arrived 19/11/2015 - Court victory shows protecting our precious rivers and wetlands is no longer a ‘last resort’ 18/11/2015 - News from The Little Egret Press November 15th 14/11/2015 - Does Angling Have A Future? 14/11/2015 - I Reckon I Had Better Fishing Many Years Ago 12/11/2015 - My Visits To The Rivers Wye and Hampshire Avon 22/10/2015 - Don't Be Put Off Fishing in Cold Weather 13/10/2015 - The 'Incompleat' Piker from www.L-E-P.com 12/10/2015 - A Rise In River Levels For A Day - Also More Litter 05/10/2015 - New hard back edition of The Life and Times of Bill Quinlan only 200 copies 05/10/2015 - Fishing With The Famous – Revisited!03/10/2015 - My Highlight This Weeks Was Fishing A Midlands Lake With Tam Miller 18/09/2015 - Rain Badly Needed For River Ribble Salmon 12/09/2015 - Big Brown Trout also Albert Casts A Good Line 07/09/2015 - A Great Weeks With Lots Of Chub 06/09/2015 - salmon trout and chub 27/08/2015 - A Good Week On The Ribble 14/08/2015 - Nuisance salmon take bait intended for a chub 07/08/2015 - Trout Salmon but No chub 02/08/2015 - Kennet Chub Ribble Salmon 12/07/2015 - Another week on the Ribble 03/07/2015 - Battle For Bass - EU Finally Agrees To Increase Minimum Size For Bass 03/07/2015 - Fund raising for the ABF - Chub catch - LG shot 27/06/2015 - Trout Chub and Sea Trout from River Ribble 21/06/2015 - Start of New Season 2015 /16 15/06/2015 - Another Week on the Ribble 06/06/2015 - Wind, Rain, High Water on the Ribble This week 01/06/2015 - Another Week on the Ribble 29/05/2015 - Lone Angler bait is now Available 24/05/2015 - My Week on the River Ribble 17/05/2015 - A Week on the River 11/05/2015 - 2015 PAAS Junior Open 10/05/2015 - Litter LG shot sea trout and much more 10/05/2015 - Big Trout on an Olive Pattern 29/04/2015 - Illegal Fishing Lands Angler With Ł525 Bill and Criminal Record 27/04/2015 - Permit to pollute on River Lambourn raises fears that new housebuilding will cause national decline in water quality 27/04/2015 - Lots of work on the River 13/04/2015 - A Week of Habitat Work and Teaching 04/04/2015 - I’ve Done A Lot of work On The River This Week 04/04/2015 - A Week of Rain and Gales 26/03/2015 - Once again the EA have proved they are not fit for purpose 24/03/2015 - Start Fly Fishing 20/03/2015 - Fishing the Mosquito Lagoon Florida 18/03/2015 - Fish Legal Fight for Compensation After Inferno and Solvent Spill Kills Hundreds of Fish 14/03/2015 - 12lb Wye Barbel Takes The Honours 06/03/2015 - Chub feed on Ocean Pride 28/02/2015 - Victoria Cross Award 27/02/2015 - A Dream Session 21/02/2015 - Winter Carp Fishing-Keeping It Simple 05/02/2015 - Gin Clear River Tumbling Air and Water Temperatures - All Is Not Lost 31/01/2015 - Rest In Peace Pete Thomas 1924-2015 26/01/2015 - Anglers Celebrate As EU Bans Trawling For Bass 26/01/2015 - Stret-Pegging Proves A Winner 21/01/2015 - London Anglers’ Association Britford Fishery 13/01/2015 - Lone Angler Cheese Mania Paste 12/01/2015 - The Chub Were Willing To Feed Despite a Bank High River 10/01/2015 - 'Je suis Charlie 07/01/2015 - Bait and Other Things 06/01/2015 - Go Chase the Ladies 01/01/2015 - Stret-pegging It’s a Great Searching Method 31/12/2014 - Chub for Christmas 27/12/2014 - When Water Temperatures Get Below 38 Degrees F Then Target The Chub 24/12/2014 - Southern Water Compensate Anglers after Sewage Pollution 23/12/2014 - A couple of great tips from Lone Angler's Facebook 22/12/2014 - Useful Tip For Damaged Thermometers 17/12/2014 - ANGLING TRUST SLAMS EU BASS SHAMBLES AS ANYTHING BUT A 'FAIR DEAL' 09/12/2014 - MPs Delight Anglers With A Call For Bass To Become A Recreational Only Species 26/11/2014 - Famous English Chalk Stream to be Refreshed 26/11/2014 - Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) and Afonydd Cymru ‘two cheers’ for Natural Resources Wales’s decision to phase out the use of cypermethrin in Welsh Government forestry 18/11/2014 - A Keepnet Full of Dreams Kevin Grozier 13/11/2014 - Environment Agency forced to regulate reservoir pollution after being confronted with its own data 13/11/2014 - Anglers Challenge EU Commission Over ‘Unbalanced and Unacceptable’ Bass Management Proposals as Government's Strategy Unravels.21/10/2014 - New Appointments to Angling Trust Board of Directors and Fish Legal Committee 31/08/2014 - My Chub Fishing Set Up 31/08/2014 - 6lb Chub 31/08/2014 - CORMORANTS (Phalacrocorax carbo) IN THE RIBBLE CATCHMENT 14/08/2014 - A Few Pots of Lone Angler Sausage Sizzle = Nine Good Chub 13/08/2014 - Anglers launch legal challenge against canoeing National Governing Bodies 29/07/2014 - Congratulations Prince Albert Angling Society 29/07/2014 - Cheshire Game & Angling Fair is on Sunday 3rd August 17/07/2014 - CNS Outdoor Technologies LLC Announces Acquisition of Thomas & Thomas 07/07/2014 - Forget Gentles get on 10mm Lone Angler Cheese Squabs 05/07/2014 - Observations from the Waterside 02/07/2014 - Angling Trust Welcomes Action to Remove Beavers from Devon River 16/06/2014 - Think How You Plan Your Fishing 01/06/2014 - Sea Anglers Come Together To ‘Give Fish A Chance’01/06/2014 - Anglers Welcome Government Decision Not to Impose Unfettered Access to Rivers in Wales 20/05/2014 - Defra publishes legal opinion on Canoeists’ “unconvincing” claims of universal access 12/05/2014 - Prince Albert Angling Society Ribble Open Day 07/05/2014 - It Will Soon be That Magic Day Again 01/05/2014 - Shakespeare and Co 25/04/2014 - Anglers reel as their Ł22 million fishing fees pour away 16/04/2014 - April Is Grannom Sedge Time 11/04/2014 - The Barbel Show 2014, Sunday 4th May 2014 09/04/2014 - News from Salmon & Trout Association 07/04/2014 - Salmon and Trout Association (Scotland) welcomes Usan Salmon Fisheries Ltd’s decision not to net on Ythan 03/04/2014 - “Can Glugs Flavours and Sprays Improve Your Catch Rate” 03/04/2014 - Latest hydropower decision: angling rights to be sacrificed ‘for the greater good’31/03/2014 - Hatching Olives Brown Trout and Grey Wagtails 26/03/2014 - Anglers dismayed at Environment Agency decision not to prosecute polluter 26/03/2014 - End of coarse fishing and a new trout season starts 08/03/2014 - 2lb 8 ounce Roach from the Avon at Britford 28/02/2014 - Roach catch from Avon at Britford 23/02/2014 - Government Go Ahead for New Cormorant and Goosander Management Plan 21/02/2014 - Thieves have been caught taking fish and no rod licence 10/02/2014 - Nine Chub and a Lost Salmon 31/01/2014 - Banging the Drum for Angling in Both Houses of Parliament 29/01/2014 - Stret - Pegging with Lone Angler Ocean Pride 27/01/2014 - Good Chub from Rivers Ribble and Wye 27/01/2014 - New Threat to Fish from Hydropower Community Grants 21/01/2014 - Review on Trefor West Chub Rod from Lone Angler 21/01/2014 - Lone Angler Sausage Sizzle Paste was a Winner 23/12/2013 - A Timely Warning - Walking Stick Saves Angler 20/12/2013 - EU Judgment paves the way for UK Water Industry to come clean about its dirty secrets 20/12/2013 - Chub Love Lone Angler Sausage Sizzle flavour 18/12/2013 - Pallatrax Cheese Feast 15/12/2013 - 8 year old Gwinn Steen's queenfish 14/12/2013 - 6Lb 7ounce River Ribble Chub on Lone Angler sausage sizzle flavoured crust 13/12/2013 - Two Day’s on the Avon 05/11/2013 - Thomas & Thomas Announce SOLAR Series of Fast Action Saltwater Fly Rods 05/11/2013 - Thomas & Thomas Announce NS II Series of Fast Action Rods for Big Water, Big Winds and Big Fish 05/11/2013 - Thomas & Thomas Announce ATS Series of Extended Technical Trout Rods 05/11/2013 - Thomas & Thomas Announce DNA Switch Series 04/11/2013 - New Partnership to Tackle Invasive Crayfish 24/10/2013 - Minister Confirms Intention to Press Ahead with Bass Conservation Measures 24/10/2013 - 300 plus miles for a Day’s Fishing 18/10/2013 - Two Cheers for New Hydropower Guidelines 18/10/2013 - Putting Poachers in Their Place Launch of PROJECT TRESPASS 17/10/2013 - Red Letter Day on London Anglers Association Show Case Fishery at Britford 09/10/2013 - Norway orders slaughter of two million sea-lice infested farmed salmon in order to protect wild salmon 09/10/2013 - Angling Trust Welcomes New Fisheries Minister but Sad to See Benyon Go 09/10/2013 - Go Catch a Barbel – Martin James 02/10/2013 - Fishing A Thames Tributary and the Hampshire Avon 04/09/2013 - Environment Agency Pays Up After Flood Works Damage Fishery 03/09/2013 - Angling Trust Announces New Chairman 28/08/2013 - Minister Backs Angling Trust Campaign on Killer Chemicals 23/08/2013 - Google Profits from Fishing Licence Rip-Off Ads 02/08/2013 - Kennet pollution – Angling Trust calls for a ban on the domestic use of killer chemical 01/08/2013 - Angling Trust Chalkstream Campaign Hits National Media 30/07/2013 - British Canoe Union Told to Put up or Shut up and Respect the Law 29/07/2013 - Thank you for helping our soldiers 24/07/2013 - Cheshire Game and Angling Fair Sunday August 4th 2013 19/07/2013 - Angling Trust team hails breakthrough over cormorant problem 19/07/2013 - Fish Legal forces regulator action to save rare fish 19/07/2013 - Saving the seabed may not cost the earth after all 16/07/2013 - Yet more Hydropower omnishambles as Environment Agency 05/07/2013 - Pollution Blights the Upper Kennet Almost total wipe out of aquatic invertebrates between Marlborough & Hungerford 05/07/2013 - Angling Trust & Environment Agency Agree Plan for Severn SealJoint Statement 04/07/2013 - Sausage Sizzle Paste and Sticks 28/06/2013 - What A Great Fish-Beats Trout Fishing 28/06/2013 - MP's Rocket to Water Companies over Gender-Bending Chemicals 11/06/2013 - Angling Trust 07/06/2013 - Fish Legal 30/05/2013 - Trundling Baits for Chub and Barbel 30/05/2013 - Charter for Chalk Streams 30/05/2013 - Rural Crime 24/05/2013 - June 16th That Magic Day 10/05/2013 - Trout Fishing Low Gin Clear Rivers

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