Many of you have already begun sabbing angling, and others are looking to remain active once hunting is banned. Angling is your NEXT main Target - shooting will fall soon with a little more push.

We will be providing contacts for new members - and putting them in touch with you soon - to become involved with your local group if you also sab angling.

If you are an existing group looking to shift to sabbing angling and are looking for new members email us.

Payment - a very large number of you have received your daily 'expenses' for hunting and this will be the same for angling sabs. We hope that the traditional funders of hunt sabs will transfer across into angling shortly and we will also be raising money ourselves. Email us with any queries or suggestions.

Many of us started off with hunting - for many years - before we started working for an angling ban.

The bill to ban, sorry licence, hunting with dogs should become law later this year. The tests of Cruelty, Utility and Least Suffering will then be used to end angling.

Angling is far worse cruelty as we all know - and the most important fact is that there is NO Justification and NO Need to catch fish - they aren't pests and cause no harm. That means that virtually all Angling will fail the Utility test completely - it is just not necessary. That coupled with its Cruelty will be enough to ban it. Some river based trout and salmon fishing for food might survive in the short term.

There are some well founded opinions that as these Tests were seen necessary for hunting then the Government has to apply them to any other so called sport which involves animals. If the Government does not then there are, on these opinions, very strong grounds for an action through the European Court to force the Government to apply them to Angling.

One way or another the government have given us the way to get angling banned - simply through the way the hunting bill was written. Some of us doubted that this approach would ever work - but we bow down to the expertise of the long term plans of some of our colleagues! A long time (and expensive) to get the first domino to move - but now it looks as if the three will fall one after another!

BUT, BUT, BUT and this is CRITICAL - Anglers MUST NOT REALISE THIS.
If the hunters are able to get the message across to the anglers that the hunting bill will bring an end to angling it may provoke enough of them to get involved with the hunters. If there were large scale protest from the angling community against the hunting bill the Government may be too frightened - and back away from seeing it through parliament. If that were to happen it will stop us getting a ban on angling for a long time.