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Spring Fishing (Part Two): Spring and Summer Fly Fishing for Trout on Rivers in Northumberland & County Durham
A New Article with Info on ALL Trout Fishing Rivers in The Northumbrian Region Fly Fishing on North East Rivers: The season for trout fishing in the Northumbrian Region begins again on March 22nd, and not a moment too soon after those long months of winter! However, that longing to just get out there [...]
River Wear fish protected from birds by ‘hedgehogs’
Devices called hedgehogs are coming to the rescue of fish in the River Wear in the first project of its kind in an English river, reports the BBC. The Environment Agency have placed 12 spikey, plastic refuges in the river near Prebends Bridge in Durham to give fish places to hide from predators. To read the [...]
River Wear to be stocked with Bream
The Environment Agency is to stock around 200 bream into the River Wear at two sites in Chester-le-Street and Durham at the request of anglers. Read the full report from the BBC here
The First North East Angling Reports of 2011 from The Evening Chronicle
Possible good news for grayling anglers and some valuable info for anyone looking to join a new club in the area in 2011… Game Angling Sea Angling
Wear Coarse Fishery Development Plan: December 2010 Newsletter from the EA
Following on from the well-attended Wear Fishery Workshop held at St. Aidan’s College, Durham, in February 2010, Paul Frear, Fisheries Technical Officer at the Environment Agency (Yorkshire & North East), has produced a newsletter outlining the considerable progress made so far on implementing some of the suggestions . Details include a info on a new [...]
Man-made refuge created for River Wear flood-risk fish
Following-on from the well-attended River Wear Fisheries Angling Workshop, organised by the Environment Agency and held at St Aidans’s College, Durham, back in February, the creation of a fish refuge on the river just outside of the city has been announced. You can read the full article as reported by the BBC here
New Links to River Levels & River Webcams Added
Some of the new features reported recently on this site, supplied by the Environment Agency and Fish & Fly.com, have been added to the Links Section. For up-to-date information on River Levels (throughout the Northumbria and Yorkshire areas) and Live Webcams (looking at the Rivers Wear at Durham and Tyne at Hexham), look under Blogroll and [...]
