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Long-time Rapala VMC Corporation board member and former chairman, president and CEO, Jorma Kasslin, has passed away, it has been announced.

The death has been announced of probably the most famous editor in the history of UK trade magazine Tackle & Guns, Cyril Holbrook, writes John Mitchell.

He passed away on Thursday, November 11^th, aged 86 years old. Cyril had survived three bouts of cancer but, as his son Paul, said: “You can’t be a winner all the time.”

Quality fishing apparel, footwear and gear supplier Grundéns is boosting its expansion plans in fishing with the appointment of distributor Dennett Outdoor to handle its UK and Ireland sales.

Predator angler Ant Glascoe Jr has joined UK tackle dealer chain Fishing Republic following the acquisition of the firm by the JD Sports Group. Fishing Republic became part of JD Outdoors in December 2019, and the UK’s biggest retail group for outdoors is expanding its team in Greater Manchester by hiring fishing specialists in a bid to become market leaders in the sector.

National Fishing Month in the UK, which kicked off yesterday, will be the biggest and best ever with key organisations joining forces to make fishing part of every family’s to-do list this summer!

The commercial manager of Daiwa Sports UK, Martin Greene, has been elected as the new vice chairman of the UK industry body, the Angling Trades Association.