Wander up the Wandle: World Rivers Day
In the four years since a guided Wander up the Wandle became a fixture in the Wild Trout Trust’s annual charity auction, the river’s trout…
Fishing Stag – Day 2 – The North
After the fine start in Hampshire detailed on my previous blog the fishing stag cut its numbers by half – Theo returning to his desk…
Fishing Stag – Day 1 – The Chalkstreams
With my wedding looming I decided a few final days fishing as a free man were required. And where better to start this four day fishing…
Don’t eat the fish!
As anglers up and down the country prepare for the start of the coarse fishing season, the Wandle Piscators have an important message for anybody…
The Wands Dinner 2011
By our calculations, this was the 8th Wandle Piscators’ Annual Dinner… a tradition which started in 2004 at London’s Savile Club before moving to the…
Fishing the Home Counties
While sitting at home in front of the computer trying to catch up with my studies, I get a text message. It’s R who is…
The Riverfly Conference 2011
At a time when words like Big Society, community empowerment and citizen science are on everyone’s lips, last week’s third Riverfly Conference ended up debating a…
Ultralight in the Austrian Alps
Ah, winter… the prime time of year for cold-weather chub and grayling fishing, for restocking fly boxes before April, or just for leafing through photos…
The Wandle Piscators: now reading at 35,000 feet
It’s a matter of relative culture. If we were hotshot San Fran-based fishing-marketing bloggers we might modestly gloat and preen. We might even strut around…
Urban fishing: Korean carp
Via the Orvis news and Carpfly sites come these frankly mesmerising eight minutes of film about fly-fishing for carp amongst the highways and high-rises of…