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11/02/2020 - A Tough Hard Cold Day On The River 08/02/2020 - Two Sessions of the Float 07/02/2020 - A Great Session on the River Soar 23/01/2020 - Three Hours of Float Watching 04/01/2020 - My First Fish Of 2020 31/12/2019 - Simple Tackle Set Up For A Good Brace Of Chub 30/12/2019 - My Christmas Treat Four Days on the River Soar 30/12/2019 - Simple Tackle Set Up For A Good Brace Of Chub 24/12/2019 - Dick Walker – The Legend Martin James MBE & Friends 02/12/2019 - A Winter Evening On the River 28/11/2019 - Two Fishing Sessions 17/11/2019 - It Was A Cold Wet Windy Day On The River 09/11/2019 - Icy Cold Autumn Sessions 07/11/2019 - Another Day Of Hope 31/10/2019 - Don’t Be Put Off By A Flooded River 22/10/2019 - From Starting Life to Achieving a Dream 12/10/2019 - Liquidised worms are not a new idea 24/09/2019 - One Bite One Fish Was Enough 23/09/2019 - There Is No Excuse for Saying “I’m Bored”10/09/2019 - I Just Love Roach Fishing 02/09/2019 - September A Great Month for Angling 02/09/2019 - Fish Legal warns Teifi polluter to expect a claim for damages 25/08/2019 - Summer Flood Water Fishing 25/08/2019 - Another Day Another Place 25/08/2019 - A Surprise Catch 05/08/2019 - Back On The River 20/07/2019 - Floating Crust for Chub 13/07/2019 - Eye Ball to Eye Ball with a Kingfisher 13/07/2019 - A good brown trout 07/07/2019 - The Very Attractive River Soar 06/07/2019 - Surprise Sea Trout when Hunting Big Browns 29/06/2019 - Book Review - Dick Walker, The Legend by Peter J Murray 27/06/2019 - New Season on the River Beult 27/06/2019 - New Season on the Beult 27/06/2019 - The final day of our week on the Beult 23/06/2019 - Another Season Day 1 14/06/2019 - Dick Walker – The Legend by Martin James MBE & Friends 05/06/2019 - 75th Anniversary of D Day Landings 09/05/2019 - Life on the river 09/05/2019 - A New Coarse Fishing Season a Few Weeks Away 02/05/2019 - Dick Walker – The Legend’ – A Compilation by Martin James MBE. A great day for contributors, friends and Walker aficionados. Cliff Hatton of FishingMagic pictures Paul Elliott 01/05/2019 - Suspension by Natural England of the general shooting licence - Angling Trust questions if Natural England is ‘fit for purpose’01/05/2019 - I'm a fan of old tackle 15/03/2019 - It didn't happen for me 13/03/2019 - A tough session on the river 13/03/2019 - A hard day on the river 12/03/2019 - Days 2 and 3 on the River Soar 10/03/2019 - First day of 3 days on the River Soar 02/03/2019 - Back on the River Soar 24/02/2019 - Youngsters first freshwater fish 23/02/2019 - Four good chub 20/02/2019 - A great wild life picture from Tony Booker 15/02/2019 - A Good Chub Session 13/02/2019 - Anglian Water admits fish kill on River Cam after years of denial 11/02/2019 - Chub for Mick Holgate 04/02/2019 - A Cold But Enjoyable Day on the River 20/01/2019 - A Pair of Ravens Were My Highlight ON Day 1 12/01/2019 - Back on the water 12/01/2019 - A dream chub fishing session 02/01/2019 - New Year's Day Fishing 31/12/2018 - Very Enjoyable Fishing over the Christmas Period 18/12/2018 - Trout Were a Nuisance 14/12/2018 - Catching on the River Soar 30/11/2018 - British Canoeing tells its members to break the law 28/11/2018 - Two Different Days 23/11/2018 - A Surprise Catch 21/11/2018 - Tough Days on the River 16/11/2018 - Helping Our Brother Anglers 04/11/2018 - A Few Days on My Fishery 30/10/2018 - Some Enjoyable Fishing 10/10/2018 - First Visit to River Rother 25/09/2018 - Great News 20/09/2018 - A Good Chub Session 20/09/2018 - Busy Day on the River 14/09/2018 - It Was A Fish less Day 10/09/2018 - Just One Bite 10/09/2018 - A Mixed Bag 10/09/2018 - A Birthday Wish 02/09/2018 - Another Good Chub Day 20/08/2018 - Another Good Chub Session 17/08/2018 - An Hour Of Fun With Chub 05/08/2018 - A Day The Bream Were Suicidal.20/07/2018 - Some River Wye clubs act responsible in protecting the aquatic environment. 11/07/2018 - Water Companies’ declining environmental performance highlights pollution risk for rivers 10/07/2018 - COLNE VALLEY REGIONAL PARK SET FOR Ł2.5M FUNDING BOOST 10/07/2018 - A Mixed Bag 10/07/2018 - A Peaceful but Exciting Morning 30/06/2018 - A Week On The Beult Part 1 30/06/2018 - A Week On The Beult Part 2 27/06/2018 - My First Day of the Season 12/06/2018 - Band of Brothers Gather in Hampshire 07/06/2018 - It’s Been A Strange Week 07/06/2018 - Getting Ready For June 16th.28/05/2018 - Dick Walker-The Legend 24/05/2018 - Angling Trust and Fish Legal threaten government with legal action for failing to apply Precautionary Principle to protect wrasse 17/05/2018 - An Early Morning Start .10/05/2018 - The First Springer of the Year 07/05/2018 - 70 Year Old Rod & Reel Beat A leviathan 24/04/2018 - "The Beult" centre pin reel 19/04/2018 - A Grannom Hatch 02/04/2018 - My Weapon of Choice 31/03/2018 - An Urchin Remembers by Bob Buteux 27/03/2018 - A Spring Day on My River 25/03/2018 - Jakes Rakes 25/03/2018 - "The Beult" centre pin reel 25/03/2018 - The Making of a Centre Pin "The Beult"21/03/2018 - The Making of a Centre Pin 15/03/2018 - A Pleasant Few Days 06/02/2018 - A Great Result for Mark Sarul 03/02/2018 - Tony Miles-End of the Line 04/01/2018 - A New Year’s Day Chub Catch 04/01/2018 - Chub come to dine on lobworms 25/12/2017 - Christmas Eve – Chub and Dace on the Feed 14/12/2017 - Heavy neonicotinoid insecticide contamination damaging British rivers 27/11/2017 - Fishing Businesses Fear Bass Ban Bankruptcy 26/11/2017 - Hard cold session on the river 25/11/2017 - Three chub and a barbel 20/11/2017 - Another reason for Brexit 20/11/2017 - Back on my river 20/11/2017 - Chub at last 11/11/2017 - Changeable Weather Didn't Stop Us Catching Fish 10/11/2017 - Can It Get Any Better 25/10/2017 - My grandchildren Join the Sport of Angling 25/09/2017 - Angling Trust look after anglers interests 18/09/2017 - Environment Agency comes out against River Test abstraction plans 07/09/2017 - Two Days Fishing A West Midlands Still Water 25/08/2017 - Destruction of river ecology by agriculture highlighted in new campaign video 11/08/2017 - Kingfisher 03/08/2017 - Some Thoughts and Experiences 26/07/2017 - Balsam Pulling is Hard Work 26/07/2017 - Success with Chub at Last 18/07/2017 - Return to the Secret Pool 16/07/2017 - Back to Catching Chub 16/07/2017 - Another Day Another Place 16/07/2017 - Hardy 11ft Perfection Roach 10/07/2017 - An Early Morning Session 28/06/2017 - A Week on the River Beult 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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