{"id":667693,"date":"2026-10-28T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667693\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:02:08","slug":"long-bucky-fishing-app-developed-with-mental-health-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667693\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Bucky fishing app developed with mental health feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Research carried out by Anglia Ruskin University in 2022 found that taking part in fishing regularly &#8220;resulted in higher mental wellbeing and fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms compared to taking part less regularly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, The Angling Trust runs its Get Fishing for Wellbeing project, with local providers putting on sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Synced Lines&#8217; mental health feature also contains links to support organisations, including the Samaritans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnson said the information users entered about their feelings would stay private.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Fishing] has helped me a huge amount with my mental health,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s really why I&#8217;m [making the app]&#8230; I&#8217;m ultimately trying to help people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The app also allows anglers to log catches, record the bait and weather conditions and see what has been caught at other venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnson added that he hoped future features of the app would include artificial intelligence tools to identify fish from photographs, estimate their weight and provide guidance on fishing techniques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Northamptonshire? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Research carried out by Anglia Ruskin University in 2022 found that taking part in fishing regularly &#8220;resulted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-667693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}