Proof at last: trout are breeding again in the Wandle!
For the last couple of winters we’ve watched Wandle trout cutting redds and spawning, electrofished year-old trout from places where little Trout in the Classroom…
Five go Fishing in Yorkshire
After initial postponement due to the new year’s extreme weather conditions, five of us finally made it up to Saddleworth in West Yorkshire to brave…
Are salmon coming back to the Wandle?
Today, in partnership with the Environment Agency, the Wandle Piscators are launching an important new study – to find out if migrating salmon and sea trout are…
Fish on! Fighting Ferraris on the Edge of reason
Now that Christmas is over, and the New Year has arrived, many anglers head for the ski slopes (and sometimes the chance to bunk off…
A Christmas stocking for the Wandle
Christmas comes but once a year, apparently, but for the Wandle it almost always starts early… … with a seasonal stocking (ho ho ho) of…
Wandle fly patterns: an ancient chalkstream tradition re-emerges in the pages of FF&FT
A few weeks ago, celebrated fishing writer Peter Lapsley came down to the Wandle to interview Will and me for December’s issue of Fly Fishing…
Wands AGM and Trafalgar Drinks 2009
Another great year for the Wandle Piscators – and as if to prove it, another superb AGM on Trafalgar Day last week, in the upper…
The Wands hit the Dorset Stour
Mid August saw us hit a new venue for a Wands trip – the Throop Fishery on the Dorset Stour. We decided to meet in…
World Rivers Day 2009
On the last Sunday of September, World Rivers Day is celebrated throughout the world. It has become an annual event with participants staging a wide…
Riverfly monitoring walks Tall on the Wandle
Since October 2007, the Wandle Piscators have been running the Wandle’s cell of the national Riverfly Partnership‘s Anglers’ Monitoring Initiative, checking the river’s water quality…