Move is part of growing trend towards social prescribing to boost mental wellbeing
David Lyons, 37, from Rochdale, is part of a group which meets to go fishing. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian
David Lyons, 37, from Rochdale, is part of a group which meets to go fishing. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian
Tue 4 May 2021 07.32 EDT
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They talk with almost mythic reverence about the 24lb common carp. It is the prize fish in this quiet Manchester fishing pond, where the catch below the surface is a much-needed distraction from the troubles on land.
Last week a group of NHS patients has become some of the first in the country to be recommended fishing to improve their mental health. Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust has partnered with a local fishing organisation, Tackling Minds, with the aim of helping patients overcome issues such as depression and anxiety.
A GROUP of friends who met in Ilkley in the 1970s have written a book called The Ilkley Connection: Forty Years of Angling Friendships, edited by Dave Tipping. David Martin, the Secretary of Ilkley Angling Association said: “I am one of those friends who met, initially, at Ilkley Grammar School. Any profits from the sale of this book will go to the Angling Trust, the UK’s main angling organisation which campaigns for clean rivers and lakes.” The book details how in the 1970s a group of impoverished, fishing-mad students dreamt of exploring waters beyond their home patch. Travelling in rusty cars or rented vans and sleeping in flimsy, leaking tents, they set out to catch the legendary pike of Loch Lomond and the much-maligned zander, an alien predator that was rampant in the fenlands of Eastern England. The friendships and the fishing trips have endured for more than 40 years, but nowadays the rusty cars are long gone and the tents have been replaced by self-catering lod
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THE dramatic moment an animal rescuer swims across a lake in Chester to save a distressed bird of prey entangled in a discarded fishing line has been captured on video. The footage also shows the heart-warming moment when the buzzard is released back into the wild after returning to full health following its ordeal. The RSPCA were called out at 9.30am on April 21 after a dog walker spotted the stricken bird hanging from a bush in the island of a lake at the old Mollington Golf Course in Townfield Lane. Inspector Anthony Joynes was sent to the scene and immediately sprang into action, donning his dry suit – and headcam – before swimming out to help the bird.
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