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Ten lucky participants in the UK's National Fishing Month events will have a chance to win a day's fishing with Commonwealth gold medalist Dean Macey.
"‘I am more than happy to give up my time to encourage newcomers into this wonderful sport," said top decathlete Macey, who is also an avid fisherman.
The competition is open to anyone who has a go at fishing during National Fishing Month, which highlights and celebrates angling and encourages would-be anglers to try it out, from 16 July to 14 August.
Entry forms will be available at events throughout Britain and Northern Ireland.
For more information visit www.nationalfishingmonth.com.

Ten lucky participants in the UK's National Fishing Month events will have a chance to win a day's fishing with Commonwealth gold medalist Dean Macey.

"‘I am more than happy to give up my time to encourage newcomers into this wonderful sport," said top decathlete Macey, who is also an avid fisherman.

The competition is open to anyone who has a go at fishing during National Fishing Month, which highlights and celebrates angling and encourages would-be anglers to try it out, from 16 July to 14 August. 

Entry forms will be available at events throughout Britain and Northern Ireland.

For more information visit www.nationalfishingmonth.com.

Published in Angling

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago