In an English Country Garden…
Yet again fortune smiled on this roving Piscator, as I was told by my host that he was shooting on the Saturday and whether I…
Doing the Conger
It’s not often that I find myself in a boat, tossed about like a pancake but that was the image I had as we drove down to…
The Wands meet Royalty
Obviously Royalty in this instance means the famous Royalty fishery, the very last fishery on the Hampshire Avon before Christchurch Harbour. September saw us finally hit…
A Wand in Austria
Over the last year or two it had become increasingly obvious to me that a number of fishing friends were changing their outlook on angling….
The Kennet at Denford
Early Sunday morning and John, Alex and myself are on the motorway towards Hungerford to fish some of the Kennet’s carrier streams. Andy Wren will…
Wands AGM and Trafalgar Drinks 2008
So… what do you do when you’ve finished the formal business of your second AGM in 9 months, in the friendly surroundings of the Duke’s…
The Royalty …… rained off!
Well the rain got the better of July’s trip to the Royalty Fishery with Fishery Manager, Dave Burgess, recommending us not to undertake the trip…
Jennifer Cox: Metro on the Wandle
It’s always nice to catch a good fish in front of an admiring audience. And naturally that niceness gets exponentially enhanced if the audience is one or more appreciative journalists who’ve joined…
Meanwhile, in Iceland…
… at this time of year, big trout are eating little flies, and the Wandle Piscators’ lucky writer-Patron Charles Rangeley-Wilson is getting to play with some of them……
At last – the coarse fishing is here!
So the glorious 16th of June is here at last, which puts chub, dace, roach and barbel back on the fishing ‘menu’. Yes, it’s the…