River work: Culvers Island, Saturday 15 January 2011
Anyone for river work? In the grey dawn of January’s third Saturday, eight motivated Wandle Piscators grabbed their bow-saws and sledgehammers… and followed up last…
Snow trout
It should go without saying that the Wandle is very far from Colorado… but during the last few weeks’ record-breaking cold you could easily have…
Wandle Piscators AGM 2010
October saw this year’s AGM held at one of our regular haunts right on the banks of the Wandle herself – the William Morris pub…
Land of fire, ice… and film
Yes, Iceland looks like where it’s happening. Despite early billing in the last years’ global economic meltdown, followed by slight delays to the world’s flight…
World Rivers Day 2010
Since we first joined the global celebrations in 2008, World Rivers Day has become a regular event for the Wandle Piscators: an occasion to break…
Fly Fishing in Slovenia – Day 3
Over a breakfast of fresh eggs, fruit and grappa Adrian and I mull over the opportunities set out before us. Yet more numbers present themselves….
Wander up the Wandle: Portrait of an urban angler
Just like last year and the year before, 2010’s third annual charitable Wander up the Wandle saw Andrew Farr take to the water outside the…
Why I Married My Wife
Aside from all the usual reasons … because she let me go fishing on our recent honeymoon to New Zealand! I managed to negotiate 2…
The Wands Dinner 2010
Over the course of the past year, the William Morris at Merton Abbey Mills has steadily become the Wandle Piscators’ home from home on the…
Five go north again (or how West Yorkshire was won)
One from a rugby match, one from a wedding in Gloucestershire… on the last weekend of March, five fishing desperadoes converged on the Top House…