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Fishing has always sat alongside shooting in the British sporting year, and this is where ShootingUK covers it. The focus is game and fly fishing: trout on rivers and stillwaters, salmon and sea trout, and the beats, lochs and loughs worth travelling for. It is written by people who fish them, not rewritten from a press release.

You will find tackle reviews and buying advice, tactics that suit the season you are actually fishing, fly patterns worth tying, and the practical detail that decides whether a day comes off – reading the water, choosing a line, judging when a run of fish will move. Alongside that sits the wider picture: river health and water quality, wild fish stocks, and the access, licensing and catch-and-release rules anglers are expected to keep up with.

Much of it comes from our sister title Trout & Salmon, so the advice carries the authority of Britain’s leading game fishing magazine. Whether you fish through the close season, spend as many days on the bank as in the field, or are only now picking up a rod, this is the part of ShootingUK to start with.