The Hunt is on…
So… what with working away at this, that and the other, some of us still haven’t spent as much time as we’d like fishing the…
The Wandle Species Hunt: let the Games begin!
The “Glorious Sixteenth” of June always holds special promise for river-anglers: as Chris Yates put it a couple of days ago, “by taking a three-month break…
The Wands in Wales: 2009
Fired with the fever of fish camps in the Wild West style of John Gierach, AK Best, Ed Engle et al (not to mention the…
Wandle Riverfly Monitoring
‘O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare into the basin And wonder what you’ve missed’ Unfortunately,…
The Wands Dinner 2009
Faced with a command performance from at least half the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (no, not those ones) the Wandle Piscators knew just what to…
In search of Toothy Critters
If you were to try fishing for pike in the Wandle, the chances are you’d be wasting your time. Its butch bigger sister the Thames…
I thought I was on a Skiing Holiday?
This year my annual skiing holiday took me to Park City, Utah. As with last year (Whistler, Canada) I decided to take a day off…
5 things to do in the Wandle’s close season…
With dace-chasing and barbel-baiting suspended for the coarse-fishing close season on the Wandle, your tireless Wands committee has put together 5 top ideas for filling…
Roll out the Coir Rolls…
What on earth, you may well ask, is a coir roll? Effectively the environmentalist’s version of an instant noodle, it’s ready-to-go riverbank: just add water….
Here come the Brits…
(Image: Charles Rangeley-Wilson) From a recent reading of US-based Gray’s Sporting Journal, you’d have to be forgiven for thinking the Brits were taking over…