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Result: Norway Nets Off = Large Salmon in Norway's Rivers Jun 12, 2008: Norway by delaying the netting season for at least two weeks has allowed a great many large early running salmon to return to their native rivers. River catches have been excellent with we have heard from good sources that over 1,500 salmon larger than 20lb have been caught. (Many also having been released again).

Total Flyfishing Skills - Breaking New Ground Oct 9, 2007: The vast majority of us face mutual challenges and have developed broadly the same range of skills. For example, most of us know how to fish a dry fly, a nymph or a team of buzzers with a certain amount of respectability. We’ve probably fished wet flies in broken water from time to time. We might even have learnt to spey cast or certainly to roll cast. And all these abilities will take us a long way in our flyfishing lives: probably we won’t even want, nor have the opportunities to progress yet further. This is where the fascination and eternal complexity of fly fishing comes in. the truth is that in the world of fly fishing there is an absolutely limitless array of challenges and difficulties waiting to be mastered.

Under the Caspian Sun Aug 22, 2007: In this the second of our series of 'Campfire Tales', the ever intrepid John Bailey is hunting monster Sturgeon in a decidedly understated way, the British way in fact!

Carp Mar 21, 2002: "The case of the carp is fascinating. I came to carp late in life and I came by accident." Jon Beer on carp