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By DAVID CARRICK THE heavy waters continue on local rivers and the 'silver run' of fish continues moving upstream on most of our local rivers. This augers well for the remaining two months of the season on English waters. The Tyne continues to produce good sport with both main tributaries giving up excellent catches. The Lambley Fishings have produced good catches, with the Madam's and Jackie's Pools yielding some good salmon and sea-trout. This beat has been producing over 100 fish...

GET Hooked on Fishing (GHOF) runs in Newbiggin and County Durham. The scheme teaches troubled youngsters how to fish and be calm, with extraordinary success. Cadets find out about how fish see and feel and learn to have respect for them. If they enjoy it, they can work towards becoming coaches themselves to help newcomers GHOF is supported by the Environment Agency, which has helped the project set up regional co-ordinators across the North East. Agency workers often attend GHOF's...

TROUT fishing on the River Trothy has been badly hit by the serious pollution of a tributary at Llantilio Crossenny, near Abergavenny. Environment Agency Wales is investigating the pollution that has wiped out an estimated 20,000 fish and taken out the population available to spawn over the next few years. It will be many years before the local brown trout population re- establishes itself without aid from re-stocking. Also killed were lampreys, eels and bullheads - all important...

By Brett Prettyman, The Salt Lake Tribune Aug. 7--MIDDLE PROVO RIVER -- I expected a lot of laughs, some friendly banter, maybe even some tears when it was suggested I join the Trib's Novices in Nature on a fly-fishing trip. Those things happened, but what I didn't expect was that I would end up playing lifeguard. Less than 45 minutes into our eight-hour excursion, I looked downstream just in time to see Roxana do the "I can't get my feet planted" look of dread. I watched as...

By Nick Walter, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Jul. 30--MANY CHOICES FOR ANGLERS: Manatee County offers freshwater anglers without boats almost unlimited haunts and honey holes, but the problem, of course, can be finding those spots. At all of the below spots, fishing the first hour of daylight is best, unless you're fishing docks. If you're fishing docks during the daytime, target shady sections where tasty panfish tend to congregate. Anglers can use light line, such as 4-pound test,...

By Craig Wilson HARRISONBURG, Va. -- Mary Alice Monroe is standing thigh-deep in the Dry River, which is anything but. The previous night's rain has swollen the stream that runs through Riven Rock Park outside of town here. It's not the best conditions for fly-fishing. Her guide already has told her that fishing today is going to be a "real challenge." In fact, Monroe just caught her line in a tree. "Now I know how Mia felt!" she yells over the roar of the rushing water. "This is more...

GRAYLING, Mich. _ If you're among those who've decided to vacation in Michigan rather than make more expensive trips out of state, and you also happen to like trout fishing, you probably couldn't pick a better year. Rain and cool temperatures aren't the stuff of a tourism promoter's dreams, but they're just what the doctor ordered for making trout and trout anglers happy. It might have been late July, but the air temperature was 63 and the water 55 on a recent trip on the Manistee River...

The summer weather may be too hot to fly fish, but this fall the weather will cool. But you have bigger problems. The fishing rod broke in transit and you discovered the damage on the river bank. How miserable to watch the fish bite other lines. There are protective tubes meant to keep fly fishing rods safe during travel or shipping. The SporTube Airline/Travel Tube is a hard-shell case designed to hold fly fishing rods. The SporTube can protect two 3- or 4-piece nine foot rods and...

Fishing hot spot: Blue River * Why here? The river is dropping and clear; trout are rising. * What's hot? Caddis have been hatching from Dillon Dam to Green Mountain Reservoir; midges, pale-morning-duns and green drakes also are on the water. * Fly box: Elk-Hair-Caddis, PMD and green-drake dry flies; Pheasant Tail, Hare's Ear and Prince Nymphs. * Best times: Caddis hatch in the mornings and afternoons, PMDS in the mornings and green drakes in the afternoon. * How to get there: From...

SALMON have taken advantage of summer flood conditions to move well upstream in both the River Usk and River Wye. Grant Holmes caught his first salmon, a 15lb fish that rose to a fly, when he fished the Glanwye beat and two other anglers caught fish here. Other stretches of the Wye where salmon were landed included the Rocks, Gromain and Golden Mile beats. River Usk salmon have been going over the weir at Brecon and several fish have been caught at Talybont. Cardiff Reservoirs Fly...