Ladies Fishing in the North East UK

Anne

You may be aware from advertising in the Trout and Salmon magazine that we are having a festival again in 2012.  Details can be found here  Read the rest of this entry →

Hello ladies! Co-hosted by BBC newsreader and journalist Fiona Armstrong, FF & FT are running a salmon school for ladies only on the River Annan.
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Anglers could hold crime key – Local News – Morpeth Herald.

Police are appealing for anyone to come forward who may have information about the break-in at Chatton Trout Fisheries in the north of the county.

Please read this and forward to fellow anglers.

To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on our blog’s activity in 2011.

Thank you to the top referring sites in 2011, in particular Chatton Trout Fishery and Fly Fisher Girl.  Most visitors came from The United Kingdom. The United States & Canada were not far behind.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Paul Fenech

Ladies & juniors do you fancy trying beach fishing for flaties on a Northumberland beach between christmas and the new year?

Paul Fenech the features editor from Sea Angler magazine will be joining us on Thursday 29th December along with Don Coe and Level 2 sea coach Cliff Johnston.  Read the rest of this entry →

You’ve been along to a taster day, fished with friends or have decided to take up fly fishing and you now want to buy your first rod. With Christmas coming what a great present !

Scanning magazines, adverts, fishing forums, brochures and catalogues….you’ll quickly find that there is a lot of choice and jargon. Which for a beginner is bewildering !

So we thought we would ask our friends in the industry by posting a question on their Facebook pages on Saturday. Our question to everyone was….

“any ladies and juniors who are thinking of trying fishing for the first time in 2012 in the UK what rod/reel/line would you recommend….” Read the rest of this entry →

Some of the ladies attended the Salmon & Trout Association Dinner last night. Vicky Bell was a guest of Hardy Greys and Anne Woodcock was invited by Northumbrian Water and sat on the top table.

Mr Peter Gray international fisheries consultant was the after dinner speaker. Peters work is documented in his book  ’Swimming against the tide’ Restoring Salmon to the River Tyne. His pioneering hatchery work at Read the rest of this entry →

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Thank you to Ali & Roger at Chatton Trout Fishery for another sucessful ladies & junior day at the fishery.

The day started with fly dressing from Paul Little. The group tied 2 flies under the instruction of Paul; the gold head and green head black tadpole. Dawn and Marion informed the group that black flies were currently fishing well at Chatton. Read the rest of this entry →

Congratulations to everyone who has worked hard during the summer months, members of the group have introduced 70 people to the sport of angling through Ladies Fishing Events across all fishing genres.

Our thanks go to all involved who have worked without charging for their time.  Read the rest of this entry →