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…
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…
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…
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…
Wander up the Wandle: Dry fly only
Flyfishing the Wandle can sometimes seem like a Quixotic calling – so Andrew Todd took it to the max when he won his Wander up…
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,…