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Survival Skillset

Lesson 8 of 14

Fishing law, and the methods it bans

35 min

A clear beck, a brown trout holding in the slack water below a boulder, and a pocket knife in your hand. Survival books will tell you how to tickle that trout out by hand, spear it, trap it in a bottle or set a night line for its cousins. In the UK, every one of those methods is illegal in fresh water, and even catching it with a rod and…

In this lesson

  • UK fishing law: licences, permission, seasons and methods
  • 1. The rod licence (England and Wales)
  • 2. Permission from the owner
  • 3. Close seasons
  • 4. What you may keep
  • 5. Banned methods
  • 6. Sea fishing
  • 7. Scotland and Northern Ireland
  • Elsewhere
  • Tickling (guddling) trout: knowledge only
  • Spearing fish: knowledge only in fresh water
  • Fish traps, weirs and nets: knowledge only

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