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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…