Links to other web sites that you might find useful

(in no particular order)

Please note that the DAA is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

General

Who's who in the Dart catchment (PDF document)

Sea Trout fishing forum

A useful guide to the life-cycle of the Atlantic Salmon

Ally Gowans' salmonid length/weight calculator. Based on salmon data. Personally and on an admittedly small number of sample fish I find that this calculator somewhat under-estimates the weight of sea trout. I would be interested to hear of any results for brown trout as well.

FishBase Database with information on 29800 species of fish.

Dartmouth Smokehouse

- Local, mainly sea fishing topics.

 

Totnes Image Bank

Bonefish Adventure - Great bone fishing, affordable prices.

Angling books from Amazon.....

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www.fishinginuk.co.uk Fishing directory for game and sea angling in UK and worldwide.

Organisations

The Angling Trust - The umbrella organisation for all anglers. Game, Coarse and Sea.

The Anglers’ Conservation Association is now part of The Angling Trust and renamed Fish Legal

Salmon & Trout Association

- Wild Trout Trust. We are grateful to the WTT for financial and technical help with our Woolston Stream project.

WTT 2009 Auction Catalogue (.pdf) - Internet & Postal Auction 2009. 204 Lots – Guide Prices from £10 to over £10 000.

Westcountry Rivers Trust

Wild Salmon Trust

Weather and river conditions

Tide Tables - Useful when intending to fish Totnes weir pool. Select Totnes from the list. You must then select the date required on the right hand side. Unfortunately predictions for only one week ahead are available. Please note that times are in GMT. For BST add one hour to the times in the table and along the bottom of the graph. Ideally you would fish the pool while the tidal height is less than 1.5 metres. When fishing past midnight GMT, remember to view the next day's tables.

Tide Tables 2 - ...or you might prefer this one. If you set the prediction length to at least two days and 'max graph size' also to two days you will see a continuous graph that includes the whole night-time period. The time scale is pretty reasonable at this setting or when you have identified the correct place you can always zoom in for more accuracy by selecting a graph size of one day. Again you are looking for 1.5 metres or less. It is also possible to set the graph to show BST.

DartCam - visual check of the weather on Dartmoor. There is also an automatic weather station on this site. Useful for checking rainfall on the moor to estimate the river's level.

Environment Agency

EA fisheries page - You can buy your rod licence on-line here

EA South West

Fisheries Bylaws for the South West region

CAMS - The Teign, Torbay and South Hams Catchment
Abstraction Management Strategy (PDF document)

Tackle and equipment

- World renowned rods with discount to Association members. Also Rod Doctor service for top quality, skilled repairs, re-whips etc to any make of rod. Contact Nigel Thomas via the CarboTec web-site or on +44 (0)1364 642368

Snowbee UK - discount for members visiting Snowbee shop at Langage. (Membership card required)

Exeter Angling Centre

Graham's Vintage Tackle - "It may be well-used but it's in working order". For the collectors among you.

Reel Value - Reels repaired and serviced locally. Okuma & generic 'OEM' sales.

Bloke Rods - Custom fly rods, reels

FastNet - Inovative landing nets

Gray's of Kilsyth - Purveyors of Fine Fishing Flies. Needle tubes. Tube fly vices. Many good links, including Scottish fishing.

Accommodation

Sea Trout Inn - near the river

Hillfield Cottages & Country House - near Dartmouth