Throwing it back to where the UK’s Trout in the Town movement began, Farlows fishing manager Tom Clinton writes in the second issue of Fly Culture magazine… … revealing how the Wandle’s spectacular wild trout became a compulsion for him in 2018: Like a mad obsessive from a conspiracy movie, the Wandle trout became all […]
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January 14 2019
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 14 January
Speeding into 2019: Wincanton’s CATCH crew clean up the Cale… … while River Holme Connections volunteers line up the scooters in Huddersfield! Salmon in dirty places? Spotting migratory fish on Taunton’s River Tone New year, new fightback: helping British rivers repel invasive non-native species… … and here’s INNS researcher Zara Pattison again with latest news […]
December 23 2018
Happy Christmas from Urbantrout!
Since joining the Wild Trout Trust this year to work on developing Trout in the Town projects across the south of England, it’s been a little quieter here on Urbantrout (cramming 9 days into every 7 can make that happen, apparently…) But readers of Urbantrout can rest assured that, among the uncertainty of Brexit and […]
November 24 2018
Today’s Flyfisher: Taming the Taff
There must be something in the air and the water at the moment… because for the second time this autumn, there’s a new quarterly print magazine for fly-fishers in the UK and further afield. Better still, the first issue of Today’s Flyfisher (just like the launch edition of Fly Culture) pays its respects to the […]
November 7 2018
Tweet of the day: Salmon on the Goyt
Up up and away…. Salmon action on the River Goyt pic.twitter.com/XH3Q61i7Bd — Mersey Rivers Trust (@MerseyRivers) November 6, 2018 As our post-industrial rivers steadily recover from the ravages of the Industrial Revolution, it’s almost impossibly thrilling to imagine salmon returning to catchments where they used to run in thousands – all the more so, when […]
October 3 2018
Urban fly-fishing report: Silt Road edition
Here in south-west England, trout fishing closes at the end of September… so the Urbantrout team thought we’d better get out on one of our favourite local streams for the last time this year. In the end, curiosity won out over familiarity, and we took a side trip up a tiny industrialised tributary we’d been […]
September 22 2018
Fly Culture magazine: Trout on the Train
A couple of months ago, we posted a fishing report from the River Tame in Manchester… … essentially a sneak preview of a feature for an exciting new fishing magazine: Pete Tyjas’s Fly Culture. And now the finished article is finally here! Complete with amazing photos from Paul Gaskell, Trout on the Train provides readers […]
September 3 2018
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 3 September
Plastic pollution in rivers: has Wales reached a tipping point? Bradford Beck runs black with sewage, killing fish and invertebrates (just days after suffering runoff from a waste depot fire at Shipley) How dams damage rivers, and why it’s good to remove them Plastic rivers (again): most marine pollution doesn’t start in the sea If […]
August 23 2018
Urban fly-fishing report: River Wandle, south London
The new Orvis #50/50onthewater campaign has been designed to encourage equal opportunities and participation in flyfishing, getting more women out onto our rivers, lakes and streams, and we couldn’t be more delighted to see this effect trickling down into the urban side of this sport we love. Last weekend, newly-converted urban flyfishing aficionados Susan Skrupa […]
July 15 2018
Now available: New ebook edition of The Pocket Guide to Balsam Bashing
Perfectly timed for this summer’s balsam bashing season, Merlin Unwin Books have just released a new ebook edition of the best-selling Pocket Guide to Balsam Bashing. As many river restorationists know all too well, urban rivers and their catchments are particularly prone to invasion by non-native species like giant hogweed, Himalayan balsam, mink and signal […]
