Thanks to great ideas from Martin Kowalski and Danny Gill, SPRITE have now had some handy guidance cards printed up (cheers to Nick James for printing and laminating!) to help reduce the avoidable mortality of fish (particularly grayling) due to poor practice. The guidance cards come with a free disgorger and free packet of hooks on a cord so that all three are to hand when needed. This way, SPRITE members can hand the kits out free on the bank to help anglers in a friendly way and get away from the avoidable losses of all fish from the river. The cards are double sided and cover everything from handling, making sure to return trout (both unfit to eat and also not sustainable to remove wild fish), what to do if a bait is taken deeply and also E.A. phone numbers.
A Wild Trout Trust project for urban river restoration