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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000

April 2010 issue on sale 12th March

For entries into the Shimano Competition of the Decade, please attach a post card to each entry with your details, which must include: Name, Address and Contact number.

There will also be a full entry form appearing in the May magazine.

For more competition info click here

Tight Lines this Week...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Friday 5th March 7pm Sky Sports 3
Repeated: 12am Sky Sports 4
Sat. 4am Sky Sports 4
8am Sky Sports 3

This week the focus is on sea fishing and Keith’s guest will be Dave Lewis. As a journalist, consultant and vastly experienced angler both home and abroad, he’s well placed to give his insight into the sport you can find around our own shoreline, as well as in more exotic locations.

If there’s anything you want to ask Dave or Keith, please send your question in as soon as possible via an e-mail to tightlines@skysports.com

You can see Dave Lewis in action aboard the White Waters charter boat with Andrew Alsop, one of the most highly regarded skippers in the UK. They take a trip into the Bristol Channel to demonstrate uptiding techniques for a variety of seasonal species.

There’s the chance to see Keith and Nigel Botherway fishing together in a predator match at Bury Hill Fisheries in Surrey, held last weekend in aid of the Haiti Earthquake appeal. With such a good cause at stake they leapt at the chance to lend their support, and to try and catch a pike or two.

And as well as announcing the winners of February’s Young Angler of the Month photo competition, Keith will also be taking his weekly look at the sport currently available for all anglers in Fishery Focus. There’ll be details on conditions and the best baits and tactics to use at some typical UK venues.

On Tight Lines next week Keith will be joined by Andy Little, technical director at Fox International and a well respected specialist angler. With the worst of the extreme winter now hopefully behind us, they’ll have plenty of tips to help you catch a springtime specimen.

Please keep the questions, and your photos for the 'Young Angler of the Month' competition, coming in via e-mail to tightlines@skysports.com

If you miss the show on Friday and want another chance to see Tight Lines in it’s entirety, you can do so from Monday’s on either Sky Anytime or as a podcast which you can download from our website - www.skysports.com/tightlines

Tight Lines this Week

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Friday 26th February 6:30pm Sky Sports 3
Repeated: 11pm Sky Sports 4
Sat. 4am Sky Sports 4
6am Sky Sports 3

This week Keith will be joined by Paul Knight, Chief Executive of the Salmon and Trout Association. As well as discussing the sport available to all game anglers in the UK, they’ll be looking at the work carried out by the S&TA in relation to the management and conservation of fish stocks, as well as their habitat.

If you’ve got a question for Paul or Keith, please send it in as soon as possible via an e-mail to tightlines@skysports.com and they’ll try and deal with it on the show.

Catching wild salmon is a notoriously tough, as well as expensive, proposition for most fly anglers - but there is an alternative. We get out on the bank of the Palm Springs Fishery in Rutland where World Champion Iain Barr proves just how much fun you can have in a more controlled environment.

There’s also the chance to see Keith in river fishing action on the Kentish Stour at Chilham Mill. With the freezing temperatures putting paid to his original still water plan, he went to the Mid Kent Fisheries venue armed with bait and tackle to demonstrate his roving tactics for catching chub.

And in Fishery Focus Keith will be taking his weekly look at the prospects in store for anglers of all disciplines. He’ll have information on some typical venues up and down the country, the most effective methods and baits to use on those waters, and the conditions you’re likely to face.

On Tight Lines next week the focus is on sea fishing and Keith’s guest will be Dave Lewis. As a journalist, consultant and experienced overseas angler he’s well placed to give his insight into the sport you can find around our shoreline, as well as in more exotic locations.

Please keep the questions, and your photos for the 'Young Angler of the Month' competition, coming in via e-mail to tightlines@skysports.com

EA Plans For Eels To Slip Through Net

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

The Environment Agency (EA) plans to prohibit the retention of silver eels from the sea in England and Wales as well as from freshwater.

The EA estimates that runs of juvenile fish, or elvers, have diminished by more than 95 per cent across Europe, and if they don’t improve soon their long-term future looks bleak. The Angling Trust supports the move, and chairman Mike Heylin said: “Without major steps to protect eels from recreational angling and commercial fishing, they are unlikely to return to a sustainable level.”

The proposed rules are at www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/recreation/fishing/114281.aspx To oppose or support the rules, you should write to Alexander Kinninmonth at DEFRA, Marine and Freshwater Biodiversity Division, Area 2D, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR, or e-mail: alexander.kinninmonth@defra.gsi.gov.uk. Further controls on commercial eel fishing are planned by stopping the issue of marine eel licences, reducing the number of freshwater commercial eel licences and toughening up conditions for those that are allowed, and imposing a closed season for commercial eel and elver fishing.

Irish Bass Need Our Help

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

For a number of years now, bass in Ireland have been reserved for the recreational bass fishery (subject to bag limits and the closed season).

Although the law has been poorly enforced and with poaching rife, this has still generally meant more and better fish than are available to UK anglers, which has attracted many anglers from across Europe to experience a better class of bassing. But, of course, the commercials hate to see such an opportunity to turn fish into euros wasted and are seeking to allow Irish fishermen to be allowed to fish for bass offshore. This is where the Irish bass go to spawn and, of course, if Irish fishing vessels are allowed to land bass again it will become difficult to know from exactly where they have been caught!

Many small businesses in Ireland have been built around angling tourism, and now face the prospect of those tourist euros being spent elsewhere. Also, a showcase fishery would be lost to European anglers campaigning for better fishing closer to home.

So, your help is needed in resisting the calls that the commercial lobby is making. Please sign the petition at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sbbce/