IFI gains court convictions against three men for illegal angling on Lough Sheelin The quality of Sheelin’s trout draws anglers from all over the world. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has secured convictions against three men in two separate cases of illegal angling on Lough Sheelin, resulting in fines totalling over €5,000. The three men were prosecuted for trolling – drawing a fishing line through the water behind a boat – outside of the permitted season on the internationally famous Irish trout lough. The fines were exacerbated by the men’s refusal to pay their fines on the spot. Comme ..read more

Angling Trust fundraiser sees many, varied  game fishing lots in the list of donations Fishing on the Derbyshire Derwent features in the list of lots. The Angling Trust’s online auction has less than two weeks to go before the final gavel is brought down. Bidding for the 160+ lots is already well underway – but there is still time to beat any of the bids. Whilst there is something to suit every angling discipline, game fishing lots feature heavily. Lots include: • 2 rods stalking and casting on the Itchen at Abbott’s Worthy (guide price £450) • 2 rods on the Bourne Rivulet, as descri ..read more

Derbyshire and North Wales fisheries start the new season this Saturday with new price options and incentives A fully finned Carsington fish. The management is expecting good returns of over-wintered fish from the first day of the season. As the 2024 trout fishing season starts with the future of reliable trout reservoirs Draycote, Eyebrook and Thornton still looking uncertain, from Saturday March 16 both Derbyshire’s Carsington and North Wales Llyn Brenig reservoirs will launch their new seasons. Llyn Brenig reports that the relatively mild winter temperatures have meant that the fish in ..read more

Deadline for prospective buyers of the trout fishery business set at March 15 The futures of Draycote, Eyebrook and Thornton trout fisheries are on hold until a buyer for the business can be found. The Fishery Management Limited board, appointed after the death of Ifor Jones, owner and manager of Draycote, Eyebrook and Thornton fisheries, have made a further announcement regarding the future of the fisheries, and regarding any outstanding creditors of Fishery Management Limited, after it took the decision to close the business. The board announced on March 4 that “in the interim period pr ..read more

Collapse of Fishery Management Ltd throws central Midlands’ trout fisheries into uncertain future Idyllic Eyebrook is one of the three Midland’s fisheries affected by the company’s liquidation. The opening of the season in the Midlands has been sent into turmoil, following the announcement that Fishery Management Ltd, which runs Draycote Water, and Eyebrook and Thornton reservoirs has gone into voluntary liquidation. The three large-water fisheries located near Rugby in Warwickshire, Corby in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire respectively, formed the nucleus of trout fishing in the cent ..read more

94% of Lough Sheelin trout anglers now catch-and-release more fish from lake Fishing the Lough Sheelin shoreline. The survey showed that 94% of the lough’s anglers now catch-and-release more fish from the lake than they did when they first started. An Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) survey has found that 94% of Sheelin anglers are now releasing more of the trout they catch back into Lough Sheelin than they did when they started fishing. The research involved 132 participants, and more than half of these had over 25 years’ experience fishing for wild brown trout in the lake. This change in ..read more

Midlands’ fishery management guru passes Ifor Jones (right) was a fishery manager who understood exactly what the angler was looking for from a day’s fishing. Ifor Jones, who will be well-known to most Midlands stillwater anglers as the private fishery manager who made trout fisheries ‘work’ for anglers and management alike, has died. A statement from family said “It’s with the heaviest of hearts and deepest sadness that I have to inform you all that Ifor passed peacefully in the early hours of this morning, January 16, with his wife Gillian and family by his side, after a short and very b ..read more

All our giveaways in one place, and how to enter them… All competitions are live now and close at midnight on 12.12.2023. T&Cs apply and can be found on each entry platform or post. Day 1-2 Scottie Fine Point tying scissors – worth £20 Enter via our online form: https://bit.ly/FFFT-COMP-D12 Day 3-4 A small and extra large Doohickey from Turral – worth £10.55 Enter via our Instagram page, and remember to follow: https://bit.ly/FFFT-IG-Page Day 5-6 A ceramic Dubbing Rake from Veniard – worth £55 Enter via our Facebook page, and remember to like our page: https://bit.ly/FFFT-FB-DEC-COMP The ..read more

Washington judge sentences man to 50 days in jail, a fine of $1,500, and imposed a five-year fishing licence suspension for repeated offences of deliberate foul-hooking Chinook salmon running a waterfall. Photo: Shutterstock/ Evan Linnell A USA judge has sentenced a recreational fisherman in Washington State to 50 days in jail, given him a fine of $1,500, and imposed a five-year fishing licence suspension for repeatedly deliberately foul-hooking salmon, reports the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). David Gretzner, 66, from Long Beach, was sentenced by Pacific County ..read more

Vintage collection to be displayed 121 years after first being commissioned Blue Touser, tied in 1902. A 121-year old display of Irish salmon flies, which was commissioned for the Cork International Exhibition in 1902, is to be exhibited once again in the Cork Public Museum, the same site in which it was originally displayed. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), custodians of the vintage collection, released an online picture book featuring the rare fishing flies last year, and has now collaborated with the museum to bring this exhibition to the public. The digital display was well received la ..read more