Links

The Environment Agency

Where you get your Rod Licence. And you can get it online now...so get one. It really is a bargain. If only they'd get off their botties and prosecute polluters instead of leaving Fish Legal to clean up in their wake.

Fish Legal

Fish Legal (formerly the ACA) is a unique, non-profit making organisation set up to use the law to fight pollution and other damage to the water environment - both freshwater and marine - and to protect the rights of anglers and angling.

They act for fishing clubs, fishery owners, syndicates, commercial fisheries across the whole of the UK. In England only, they are the legal arm of the Angling Trust. They act independently in the rest of the UK.

Water pollution, over-abstraction, commercial fisheries, fish-farming and other activities can all cause huge impacts on aquatic ecosystems, wild fisheries and angling. Fish Legal aims to stop this damage happening and fights for compensation for their members when it does.

The Angling Trust

The Angling Trust is the new, single organisation to represent all game, coarse and sea anglers and angling in England. The formation of Angling Trust brings with it a positive new future for angling. For the first time ever, there is a single body to take cohesive action to solve all the problems that affect our sport.

So join...

The Waterlog Magazine

The World's Finest Angling magazine

"About as much use to a match angler as a chocolate teapot" Nobby Budd

"The best angling magazine since I was a lad" Izaak Walton

The Two Ravens Press

Two Ravens Press are an independent publisher of contemporary British and international literature based in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. Two Ravens Press is run by two writers with a passion for language and for books that are non-formulaic and that take risks.

Their books have been longlisted for, shortlisted for, or have won a number of major literary awards, including the international IMPAC award, the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, The Saltire Society Book of the Year, the Saltire Society Homecomings Award, the McKitterick Prize, and the inaugural Robin Jenkins Literary Award.

The Medlar Press

'No other publisher in the UK offers angling books of such consistent literary class or aesthetic excellence.' - Barbel Fisher

Medlar’s fishing books include some of the great classics of angling literature but also many books from contemporary authors - works of historical or biological research, and literary works deserving of a wide audience. There is a good search facility on this site so whatever you wish to find, whether it be an author, title or simply a fish species, you should be directed quickly to the books that fit your criteria.

Talisker Whisky

I like most whisky, but I have a soft spot for Talisker, possible due to the newly wed Anotheranglers' visit, heads heavy with cold, being started with a large one popped into your hand as you pass through the door. Now that's marketing. It's not a bad cold cure either.

The 10 year old is peaty, smoky with a hint of the sea and a sip takes me straight back to the shores of Loch Harport in 1994. It's probably sacrilege but a tot in a flask of Earl Grey brightens those colourless winter days by the waterside. And a large one with a spot of hot water is perfect for the head-cold of Mrs AA. Despite herself professing no love of whisky, my bottle always seems to evaporate through the cork if I am away from home...

A wonderful warming malt. Buy some, drink it, appreciate it, buy some more. It's not tricky.

Keith's Angling Pages. I really like this site. I sense a kindred sprit.

Float Fishing for Carp. I found this page struck a chord, as it is almost exactly how I fished for Wild Carp on Pike Pit. And still do.

Playing Battleships. Fly fishing for Pike on Rutland Water by Ian Wakeford. I was sent this link by my brother, and it's a fabulous read, and a good example of leaving the beaten track...

Directory of Free Fishing. Yep. Really. Well worth a look. You might find you're near several waters that cost nothing to fish, as long as you have a rod licence.

More Free Fishing on the Thames

Paul's Fishing Kites. This excellent site from New Zealand, shows one way to get that bait 500 yards off-shore. Saves all that spodding...

Eel Study Group. The Aims of the group are to provide a means for Experienced Eel Anglers to contact other like-minded specialists and to exchange information and to improve member's catches and broaden our knowledge of Anguilla Anguilla, the European freshwater Eel.

Read this, find out about eels and how amazing they are and stop killing them, even the little ones.

Mike Ladle's amazing Fishing site. More information here on catching fish than you can shake a stick at. Especially Sea fishing, the best collection of useful information and tips I've ever read anywhere.

The Grayling Society. The Grayling Society was formed in 1977 by a small group of enthusiastic game fishermen who wished to conserve and establish the Grayling as a true, wild, game fish. It's hard to put it any better than that.

The Bait Box. The Shanghai Lily's blogspot. Drop in tune out. Something like that.

Salt and Fresh. The life and times of a hopeless fishing addict. Well you said it Putnamsmif....

Retiarius - Angling Ancient & (quite) Modern. Creative use of the word "modern".