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…
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…
Here come the Brits…
(Image: Charles Rangeley-Wilson) From a recent reading of US-based Gray’s Sporting Journal, you’d have to be forgiven for thinking the Brits were taking over…
Hoping it might be so…
I’ve always thought Thomas Hardy would have made a great fisherman, and a great fishing writer and poet too. Sensitive, contemplative, wry and deeply immersed…
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…
Roderick Haig-Brown: the centenary
At the start of the 21st century, we think most readers of this blog would agree, it’s pretty much a no-brainer to look after your…
Welcoming our new Patron: John Goddard
Globe-trotting fisherman, writer, technician, entomologist, fly-designer, micro-photographer… the more you try to list John Goddard’s gifts to the world of angling, the more you realise…
Welcoming our new Patron: Charles Rangeley-Wilson
To millions of telly addicts and armchair fishers, he’s known simply as The Accidental Angler. But it’s no accident at all that we’ve just asked Charles…