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…
Northern rivers
After months of waiting, four of us find ourselves in a car heading north. Inside, the boot is packed to the rafters with tackle, while…
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…
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…