A quick look at the March 2011 issue, including a great free gift for new subscribers

No specimen trout or babbling brook on the cover of this month’s Trout & Salmon magazine, instead a crystal clear close-up of a fly. Equally as striking as their usual covers, but different.

Trout and Salmon magazine has been the Voice of Game-Fishing since 1955. Every month the finest contributors in the sport deliver informative, inspirational and entertaining writing, offering sage advice on locations, tackle and tactics with beautiful photography. If you are searching for a new place to fish, Trout and Salmon’s Fishing Reports are a collectable record of the state of Britain and Ireland’s major game fisheries and have become an important archive for all fly-fishers. Trout and Salmon magazine is also a forum for debate of the most contentious issues that dominate fly-fishing today.

Here’s a look at what’s in the March 2011 issue, courtesy of the ‘Contents’ page:

Trout & Salmon MagazineHIGHLIGHTS
Springer!
Crawford Little is Trout & Salmon’s guide on a March day on a Highland river in search of early-season silver.

A Moment In March
Timely bankside observation led Louis Noble to this successful March Brown emerger.

History First-Hand

Jon Beer stumbles across the trus stories behind some yellowing scraps of newsprint.

Mixed Bags At Kylemore
Chris McCully and party enjoy sport from boat and bank in the wilds of Connemara.

Which Waders?
Trout And Salmon reviews 17 new breathable sock-foot chest waders and reapair expert Dave Gordon reveals how to make this costly, but essential, wear last.

Derby Day Brownies
Mick Weaver returns to the River Liffey and finds sparkling water and good sport in the middle of an Irish drought.

Steady As You Go

Stealth and watercraft can make all the difference between success and failure in the pursuit of river trout, as Paul Procter explains.

Wild As The Wind Itself
Finlay Wilson racks up some hard-won brownies at a Highland estate fishery of stark, desolate beauty.

Prize Crossword

Win Patagonia waders and shoes.

FEATURES & TACKLE
Film Reviews
DVD’s about Irish Mayfly and Alta salmon fishing that make us long for the summer.

The New Zealand Experience
Peter Gathercole chases double-figure brownies in The Land of the Long White Cloud.

Reader Offer
Trout and Salmon has joined Glasgow Angling Centre to offer a start-the-season stillwater trout kit for just £79.99.

Consolations Of Age
Stan Headley takes comfort from the things he’s learned in a long fly-fishing career.

Abundance vs Austerity
You can’t have too many salmon in our rivers – Orri Vigfusson pleads for a more enlightened approach to “targets”.

Flies With Feeling
The addition of antennae to a range of popular salmon patterns turns good flies into great flies, claims Ronald Sutherland.

Iceland On A Budget
Oskar Pall Sveinsson offers advice to salmon-fishers prepared to make their own way to Iceland.

Deveron Fishing Festival
News of an exciting event in May.

REGULARS
Letters To The Editor

Your views on game-fishing matters.

NewsReel
The latest from the world of game-fishing.

Property Watch
Derek Bingham on houses with fishing.

Fish Of The Month
Catch a memorable fish and win a Sharpe’s rod.

Salmon-Fishers’ Surgery
Crawford Little answers readers’ queries.

What’s New?
The latest tackle reviewed.

Fly-Tying
Trout & Salmon’s pick of the best new fly-tying materials and gadgets.

Last Cast
Crane fishing: Giles Catchpole wonders whether he or the gillie is more responsible for his success.

There are also three or four pages of regional catch reports.

Trout & Salmon is a quality fly fishing magazine and should be available from all good newsagents and supermarkets. The cover price is £3.40.

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