Compiled by : Colin Albert colin@nospam-labrax.force9.co.uk (Delete "nospam-" to e-mail.)

I am trying to keep these links up to date. If any have changed or do not work, please e-mail me and let me know. Has anyone found any other pages covering European sea fishing? Please let me know the URLs so that I can add them here.

Newsgroups

• alt.fishing - General fishing newsgroup
• rec.outdoors.fishing -Mainly freshwater, but some sea and game.
• rec.outdoors.fishing.bass - American freshwater bass NOT sea bass.
• rec.outdoors.fishing.fly - Game fishing newsgroup.
• rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.tying - Discussions on fly tying.
• rec.outdoors.fishing.saltwater - All aspects of sea fishing.
• uk.rec.fishing.coarse - The UK coarse fishing newsgroup
• uk.rec.fishing.game - The UK game fishing newsgroup
• uk.rec.fishing.sea - The UK sea fishing newsgroup
• Charter for uk.rec.fishing.* newsgroups

Mailing Lists

• The IAC Fishing Mailing Lists - The new home for the UK fishing mail lists.
• The Irish Angling Mailing List - A new angling mailing list geared to angling in Ireland and around the world.

WWW Sites

Weather Information

• The Met Office - The UK National Weather Service
• UK Shipping Forecast- The latest shipping forecast direct from the Met Office. As broadcast on Radio 4.
• UK Inshore Waters Forecast - The latest inshore waters forecast from the Met Office.
• 3-6 day Weather Forecast - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. A site giving Atlantic pressure maps for the next 3 to 6 days.
• Sea Temperature Maps - Download colour satellite maps. A clickable world map selects the region you are interested in.
• Interactive Marine Observations - This page provides near-real-time weather and sea state reports from weather buoys around the coast of Britain and Ireland. Also buoy and CMAN station reports for all US coasts, Canada, the Western Pacific, and soon, Japan. Data for the current hour generally becomes available after about fifteeen minutes after the hour.

Fishing Software

• Fishing & Tide Software

U.K. & European Sea Fishing

• 
  Irish Angling Update - Sea, coarse & game angling reports from the Central Fisheries Board.
• Sea, All the Angles - Mike Thrussell's online sea angling magazine. An Excellent site with a wide range of articles.
• UK Fishing World & Electronic Tackle Shop - A new site for UK Angling. Articles; stories; Beginners Guide to Fishing; Venue Reviews & Listings; Specialist World, covering carp, pike, catfish & many more; The Electronic Tackle Shop; Tackle; Bait; Rods; Reels & More.
• Net Afloat - A UK boating page. Brokerage and Private Boats FOR SALE , Chandler's Catalogues, Marine Insurance, Marine Finance, Nautical Almanac, useful UK Marine Telephone Numbers, STOP THIEF - A list of boating items reported stolen. Let us help you recover stolen boating property. A FREE service.
• Fishing In Ireland - Information on where to fish in Ireland. Covers Coarse, sea, and game fishing.
• Where to Fish - the on-line edition of Where to Fish featuring over 3,000 pages of daily updated information covering thousands of fishing locations in the UK and abroad.
• Davy Holt's Scottish Angling Homepage - The main aim of the site will be to promote the tag and release programmes that are running in Scottish waters and also to provide information relevant to Scottish angling
• Alan Pemberton's Sea Fish Page - Information on sea fish and sea fishing in Scotland. Also the home of the British Marine Life Study Society.
• Richie's UK Shore Fishing - Includes the NFSA Specimen Calculator and the Numpties Fishing Guide
• Tay and Fifeside Sea Angling - Information on the fish, tackle and angling clubs in Tay and Fifeside.
• Robert Schembri's Sea fishing Page - MALTA - This site has information on sea fishing around Malta. Currently under construction.
• Fish Cornwall - Information on shore and boat fishing in Cornwall, and details of angling holidays.
• The Bass Anglers' Sportfishing Society (B.A.S.S.) - Founded in 1973 to promote a sporting approach to angling for the bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, and to compaign for conservation measures to counteract the effect of over-fishing.
• UK Shore Sea Fishing Diary - Phil Whiting's on-line sea anglers diary.
• NE Sea Angling - John Bridges North East Sea Angling Page. An extensive site with marks, catch reports, and lots of local information. Now has on-line forums and chat rooms.
• Leisure Angling - A specialist in angling holidays to Ireland. The site has details of holidays and angling reports.
• Sabre Tooth Charters - A charter boat based in Milford Haven, Wales. The pages have catch reports, and booking details.
• British Conger Club - The 'semi-official' British Conger Club website. The British Conger Club has just celebrated its 35th Anniversary. It has developed from a small band of enthusiastic sports anglers into the most efficient specialist angling organisation in the World.

Sea Fishing Wordwide

• Saltwater Fishing Home Page - Covers saltwater fishing equipment, species, reports, locations, and stories. Includes a list of equipment manufacturers and dealers.
• GORP - Fishing Resources on the Internet- Numerous links to sites all related to angling.
• Hawaii Deep-Sea Fishing - Big game fishing in Hawaii.
• Lou Bignami's Fine Fishing - Fine Fishing Internet Magazine is dedicated to bringing you the best articles, reports, humor and links on fishing around the world. A massive angling page, with loads of sea fishing articles, links, shops etc. with a searchable index.
• The Journal of Northeast Sportfishing - A comprehensive saltwater fishing magazine. Includes articles, fishing reports, tackle shops and classified ads.
• Japanses Sport Fishing with Isseki Nagae - Sea fishing Japanese style. Includes an English/Japanese fishing dictionary!
• International Game Fish Association - The IGFA is quietly working to protect the future of our sport. They feel a fish is too valuable to catch only once; so the next time you think about IGFA, please remember they are not just the people who keep world records.
• The South African Fishing Page - An extensive site covering all aspects of fishing in South Africa.

U.K. & European Freshwater Fishing

• Scottish Flyfishing FAQ - by Pete Marrow.
• Fishing in Northern Ireland - Information on coarse and match fishing, with a description of waters and a list of tackle shops.
• Baltic Sea Sportfishing - Fishing for pike and sea trout in the Baltic.
• Fishing in Iceland - Information on flyfishing.
• Specimen Group Fina Biten's Home Page - Freshwater specimen hunting in Sweden.
• LW4s Fishing Site -Welcome to the most complete list of fishing resources ever made on the WWW. It is in fact also the first fishing page in Sweden
• Salt-Water Fishing in New Zealand -Find out about sea fishing on the other side of the workd.
• National Federation of Anglers - The NFA was formed in 1903 by a group of forward-thinking environmentally-aware anglers who were concerned about the adverse effects which water pollution, abstraction and land drainage were having on their inheritance. It is responsible for administration at both national and regional level of coarse angling, with over 500 affiliated organisations and through them, nearly 250,000 individual anglers.

Freshwater Fishing Worldwide

• Bass Fishing Home Page - This page covers Bass fishing equipment, tournaments, reports, locations, and stories. It will include a list of equipment manufacturers and dealers.
• The Virtual Flyshop - The Virtual Flyshop is a hypermedia resource for Internet surfin' flyfishers! Our goal is to use the power of the Internet to bring you the best in flyfishing destinations, resources and equipment. The two newest features in the Flyshop are Streamside: the first Internet flyfishing publication, and the Virtual Flyshop Forum: a series of 'bulletin board' style lists that solidify our committment to providing a free public medium for flyfishers.
• The Ultimate Fishing Page - Lots & lots of links to other fishing sites.
• The Classic Angler - A comprehensive site devoted to fly fishermen and classic tackle collectors. Includes monthly newsletters, directories of regional Fly Shops and Bamboo Rodmakers, products/services of interest to collectors, fly fishing information/products and much more!
• Fishing World - Tackle Town Mall, Travel Bureau, Marine And Tackle Expo Hall, Tackle Stores and Tournament Headquarters are all part of this angling site. This site uses a lot of graphics and can be slow to access!

U.K. Tackle Shops & Manufacturers

• The Harris Angling Company - Welcome to the Harris Angling Company - online. You'll find here just a small selection from our 72 page full colour catalogue. We specialise in lures and all the gear you need for big fish, plus lots of those hard-to-find items you read about in the mags but can't find in your local tackle shop.
• BOS (Bennetts Of Sheffield) FISH Web Site - We intend over the next few months to put the whole of our enormous range of international fishing tackle on to this site covering coarse, carp, pole, sea, spin, game and fly fishing, so please do visit us again. In the meantime, please ask for our FREE CATALOGUE by phone, fax, post or email
• Angling Leisure Sport - Care about angling? We do! Use the Internet for the quickest and easiest way to make sure you get the fishing tackle you need.
• John Roberts Tackle - Care about angling? We do! Use the Internet for the quickest and easiest way to make sure you get the fishing tackle you need.
• Speleo Technics - Makers of the finest headtorches for anglers and cavers. Their www pages have details of all their range including the new Angler's Headlamp.
• Titan - Makers of Clothing & accessories for anglers. A complete on-line cataglogue.
• Gemini Tackle - An on-line catalogue covering Gemini's range of weights, rigs and rig-making accessories.
• Jims Discount Tackle - An excellent on-line tackle shop. Everything from rods & reels to small accessories.
• Beekay Iinternational - The world's largest wholesaler and publisher of angling books and videos.
• Coch-y-Bonddhu Books - A specialist dealer in new, secondhand and remainder angling books. This site has an extensive on-line catalogue.
• Flymail UK - The UK's best and most concise dealer of salmon, sea trout, and lake flies.

Tackle Shops & Manufacturers Worldwide

• ABU Homepage - The American range of ABU Reels.
• DAIWA (Canada)- Lists and a few pictures of tackle in their Candian ranges. Can be slow from the UK.
• DAIWA (USA) - Much faster than the Canadian site, though some areas are still under construction
• Penn Reels - Reflecting over 60 years of American manufacturing experience, Penn is tough tackle for a tough world. And we have the records to prove it. Today, Penn holds over 815 current International Game Fish Association (IGFA) world records. Rapala Lures - View Rapala plugs on-line.
• Rapala Lures - View Rapala plugs on-line.
• Mud Hole Tackle - An excellent on-line tackle shop. Blanks, Rod building components, Books, Reels, Custom drag kits, Hooks, Line & leaders, Trolling lures. A catalogue is also available by mail.
• Capt'n Mikes Tackle Town - A real fishing tackle store, right here in Cyberspace. Shop for it all, terminal tackle, fine line, internationally acclaimed lures, quality clothing, optics, custom rods, books, accessories, vicarious adventures on video and real fishing adventures at world renowned locations.
• The Waterfront - An information service specializing in boating, fishing, scuba diving, and other marine related recreational activities.
• Global Shopping Network- A site that covers fishing and marine interests. View in text or graphics modes.

Other Interesting Sites

• GORP - Great Outdoor Recreation Page - The GORP home page.
• BBC World Wide Web Server - Seeing as I work for the BBC, I'd better include a link to their pages!
• Natural History Book Service - A specialist mail order bookstore. Over 40,000 books are searchable by subject, title and author. Includes a section on marine biology.
• The British Marine Life Study Society - Welcome to BMLSS(Scotland), a site for everyone interested in UK marine wildlife.
• Hazardous Mediterranean Fish - An illustrated guide by Dr. Louis Zammit, M.D. As well as covering soem exotic species found in warmer waters than those around Britain, this guide also has good details on Weevers and how to treat stings.
• An Atlas of Mediterranean Fish - An excellent on-line guide to some of the fish found in the Mediterranean Waters.
• British Marine Life Study Society

That's all folks. Time to go wet some line!!

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