About FishingHQ

Most fishing content on the internet is one of two things: a restatement of a handful of twentieth-century books, or an advertisement with an article wrapped around it. Both present convention as fact, and neither tells you which is which.

FishingHQ is built to answer fishing questions deeply and transparently. It covers the biology, the methods, the bait, the tackle, the history and the environmental cost, and on every substantive claim it says what kind of thing that claim is — research, an authority, angling convention, a manufacturer’s own statement, or something merely reported.

FishingHQ documents publicly known fishing places and what is reported caught at them — the ground, the catches, the methods, the seasons and how you get there. Being listed is not permission to fish: access, rights, licences, closures and permitted methods vary and change, and this site does not maintain them.

So it will not tell you what the rules are where you are standing, and it will not tell you whether you may fish a particular water today. It names the body that holds that answer instead. Both lines are explained in what we do and do not cover, and both are held to consistently rather than left to judgement page by page.

Coverage continues to grow, and it grows in a deliberate order: the species people most often fish for first, then more specialised and regional ones, then wider background subjects. Rod fishing is the main focus, spearfishing has its own section, and other ways of fishing are covered so that you understand them rather than as instruction.

HEKNO Ltd, registered in Scotland under company number SC895711. Registered office: Borthwick Farm Cottage, Gorebridge, EH23 4QZ, United Kingdom

General enquiries: hello@hekno.co.uk. Full company details are on the legal information page.