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…
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…
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…
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…
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…