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The Bass Rock Shore Angling League host the final round of their winter league on Wednesday, March 15, and it is a North Berwick Rover.Anglers can fish where they wish between the two golf...

The Bass Rock Shore Angling League invite fishermen to join them on Wednesday, May 26, for the second Leg of their Summer League series.It’s at picturesque Seacliffe Beach, one of Scotland's top beaches, near...

Jamie McLeary was cursing his luck as a fish "of a lifetime" slipped away at Rosslynlee (pictured) Trout Fishery near Penicuik.The regular reported to fishery bosses that the brown trout must have weighed in...

The Bass Rock Shore Angling League are back in business on Wednesday, September 23, when they host the second in their Winter Series, this time at North Berwick.The harbour area is the location and...

It was tough going for the men who contested the latest round of the Bass Rock Shore Angling League. Derek Morrison from Gifford topped the podium in round ten with a fish of just over...

Craig Ogilvie survived "horrible" conditions to win the Christmas Hamper event organised by Bass Rock Shore Angling League. He fished North Berwick Harbour and was one of ten anglers who braved the strong, south-east winds...

The hardy Bass Rock anglers will be out again on Wednesday, December 4, and this time the venue is Whitesands Beach near Dunbar. The beach is approximately five kilometres south of Dunbar and registration is...

Stuart Fairbairn from Haddington won the sixth round of the Bass Rock Winter League, then he lost his rod over the breakwater. Luckily, he went back later, after high tide, and recovered the rod, much...

Craig Ogilvie (North Berwick), pictured left with his great friend Barry McEwan, won the second round of the Bass Rock club’s winter league with two fish for 3lb 2oz with Edinburgh angler David Cooper...

Local anglers Mike Connet and Jock Kettles are in the Scierra Pairs final, one of Britain’s biggest fly fishing events, this weekend. The pair motored south earlier this week to practice and Mike side: “We’re...

Barry McEwan leads the chase for silverware in the Bass Rock Sea Angling League summer series. The Port Seton-based angler is pictured above in the van with Thomas Slow of Portobello has 24 points going...

The Bass Rock summer sea angling league kicks back into action this week. Round four was postponed from last week due to the poor weather but the forecast appears favourable for Wednesday, June 19.Registration is...

The beach near Dunbar Golf Club proved the best spot for anglers who contested the Dunbar Rover event hosted by Bass Rock Sea Angling League. A total of 16 anglers braved freezing temperatures to take...

David Cooper (pictured) had a 33rd birthday to remember as he hooked two major prizes in one of the biggest sea angling competitions on Britain’s East Coast. The self-employed painter and decorator landed the heaviest...

 Craig Ogilvie won the latest round of the Bass Rock Shore Angling League based in East Lothian.The North Berwick-based fisherman landed two cod weighing a total of 8.40lb in the eighth round of the...

We’ve been enjoying a spell of wonderfully calm, sunny days. On such days the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth shines dazzlingly white against the blue sky and the blue sea. The white,...

“They’re like a cliff of seagulls.” I’ve never forgotten the colourful phrase Donald Dewar once used to describe the hollering on the opposition benches in parliament. It just captures the whirling excitement, the screeching...

 The absence of iconic and much loved puffins from the nation's Big Five initiative has prompted the Scottish Seabird Centre to create its own unofficial People's Big Five list, and they are encouraging the...

The New Boat launched at North Berwick Seabird Centre this week, and The Edinburgh Reporter was aboard when it made a trip to Bass Rock in wintry temperatures. Margaret Bisset who won the competition to...