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…
Fly Fishing in Slovenia – Day 1 & 2
Sitting on a granite rock, looking into a pool, I could make out a number of fish swaying to the rhythm of the current at…
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…
Fly Fishing the Julian Alps (Part 2)
Part 2 – Austria Leaving Slovenia, I found myself in the back of the Renault 5, laden with fishing tackle and surrounded by that all-too-familiar…
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…
Fly Fishing the Julian Alps
Part 1 – Fishing in Slovenia Sit three club members round a pub table, ply them with beverage, and as can only be expected a…