Hook, Line and Sinker
Keen angler or total beginner - whatever your level or ability, there’s a great line-up of events in Pembrokeshire Fish Week 2011. For coarse anglers, there’s the popular annual FBM Holidays Coarse Fishing Championship, with a total prize money of £750.
Heats are held on each Sunday in June at Llyn Carfan Coarse Fishery, Tavernspite, with the top four anglers from each heat progressing to the grand final on 3rd July, with a guaranteed 1st prize £400 plus a trophy, 2nd prize £200, 3rd prize £100, and 4th prize £50. The competition is kindly sponsored by FBM Holidays.
Meanwhile, sea anglers come from all over Britain for the Stena Line Sea Angling Festival Open Competition on Fishguard Harbour Breakwater on 3rd July.
The annual competition, organised by the Welsh Federation of Sea Anglers, is a PENN Points catch and release competition. There is a first prize of £750, second prize of £250, and third prize of £100. The competition is kindly sponsored by Stena Line.
The Stena Line festival also includes a Family Sea Angling Coaching Day on 2nd July, for complete beginners to those wanting to improve their skills.
Anglers with a disability can enjoy a specialist day at Treffgarne Gorge near Haverfordwest 
with Pembrokeshire Anglers Association and the Environment Agency.
Always fancied learning to fly-fish, or want to improve your skills? The Early Evening Rise at Puddleduck Trout Fishery, Freystrop, Haverfordwest is a great chance to try.
Introductory lessons in fly-fishing are also available at White House Mill Trout Fishery Lampeter Velfrey.
Or come and experience coarse fishing at the Wolfsdale Pitt Coarse Fishery, near Camrose, Haverfordwest, courtesy of Pembrokeshire Piscatorial Association. The fishery is also holding a junior coarse fishing championship with great prizes.
And if you’ve never fished before, there are two learn-to-fish events at Llys Y Fran Reservoir and Country Park, at ‘Fishing – Why not have a go?’ and ‘An evening of outdoors fun’.
Pembrokeshire Fish Week is organised by Pembrokeshire County Council and part funded through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013, which is financed by the EU and the Welsh Assembly Government.
www.pembrokeshirefishweek.co.uk