A CONSERVATIONIST has been presented with a national award for his services to game fishing.
Bob Dales, from Brompton, North Yorkshire, was awarded the Arthur Oglesby Trophy.
For more than 50 years Mr Dales has been an active conservationist with particular interest in rivers and fisheries.
He took over as the member responsible for Yorkshire for the Salmon and Trout Association and recruited more than 1,000 members, founded new branches and created a regional organisation.
He has acquired leases of fishing rights to enable other anglers to fly fish on the Rivers Ure and the Dove and formed the Jervaulx Fly Fishers Syndicate, the Bear Park Club and the Keldholme Club.
His articles on conservation, fisheries and wildlife have appeared in various magazines and the first of his two books, Fly Fishing In Herriot Country, will be publsihed by the Medlar Press in March.
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