Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The majestic river Tweed is flowing weakly. It hasn’t rained for months in Scottish border country, and the depleted ...
Angling authorities last night condemned the lifting by the Government of trout fishing restrictions on two of Scotland's premier rivers and warned that it could cause a conservation disaster. They ...
If you’ve hitched up a pair of waders or cracked the spine of a fishing magazine lately, you’ve noticed that fly-fishing for trout, salmon, and their piscatorial relatives has changed. Gone are the ...
Another trip to the River Tweed, another skunking. Well, that's not quite true. I did catch a big brown trout that grabbed a salmon fly. On gossamer tackle, it would have been quite a catch (the trout ...
There are three kinds of trout in this country — native, wild, and stocked. Native trout are the ones that have been here for thousands of years, such as brook trout in the mountains of the Northeast ...
Councillors in Northumberland are voicing concerns over potential changes to revenue raised from fishing on the River Tweed Councillors in Northumberland are warning the Scottish government against ...
One of the most famous fishing beats in the world has been put on the market for the first time in 50 years, with a price tag of £2.8m. The Junction Pool near Kelso in the Scottish Borders is a bucket ...
As his birthday present in October, I treated The Doctor to a couple of days on a prime Tweed beat; the only fly in the piscatorial ointment was that he had to share a rod with me, his son-in-law. In ...
This evening, comedians Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse will be bringing another slice of humour to our screens as their hit BBC2 series Gone Fishing nears the end of its third series. The show has ...
Councillors in Northumberland are warning the Scottish government against mounting what they call "a cross border raid" on their finances. They fear changes to Scotland's wild fisheries policy could ...