If, like me, you regard the summer months as a fleeting window of opportunity to fish for that hardest-fighting of river fish, the barbel, you’ll be all-too-well aware that up here in the far north of England the nominally lengthy season for this species is curtailed by cold weather a good six months before the

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Winter Angling: Chub Fishing on the River Wear

Record numbers of salmon have been recorded in the River Tyne, according to a report on BBC Tyne, making it the best river for the species in England and Wales. The full article can be read here.

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Highest ever numbers of salmon recorded in River Tyne