Exploring ‘the drain’: David James Bendle takes a friend fishing on an Irwell tributary ‘Haunted rubble and half-vanished walls’ on the banks of Winchester’s River Itchen Tenkara in the edgelands: David West Beale gets his stalk on SERT takes out the River Club weir on the Hogsmill near Tolworth in south London The Littering Fisherman: […]
Archive for the 'Europe' Category
April 8 2017
Trout in Dirty Places: Now available as an ebook!
Five years (count ’em already!) since this groundbreaking urban fishing and river-mending title was published in 2012… … publishers Merlin Unwin Books have now released Trout in Dirty Places in ebook format. Available from Amazon, iBooks and Kobo, it’s priced at £10.00 or less. So, if you’ve been reading this site, but haven’t fully come over to […]
March 17 2017
The Fly Fisher: Bringing urban fishing to a global lifestyle audience
Urban fly-fishing has had an underground vibe for as long as we can remember. Sure, it’s featured on plenty of blogs and charity auction listings, and even some memorable magazine interviews, as well as the book that launched a thousand urban fishing adventures, Trout in Dirty Places… … but we reckon this might be the […]
March 6 2017
The Wild Trout Trust charity auction 2017: Here’s where your next urban fishing season starts
As the whole concept of urban fly-fishing moves steadily into the mainstream, the Wild Trout Trust’s annual charity auction has become a regular feature of our publishing calendar here at Urbantrout. For your usual bidding pleasure, this is the fifth time we’ve filleted out all the tastiest urban lots, and we reckon there’s no real […]
February 27 2017
Film night: A new kind of river management is coming! (Full English version)
It must have been some time around a year ago that we saw this brilliant little film for the first time in its original French version, and said to ourselves: This is only three and a half minutes long, but it’s utterly epic! When’s the English translation coming? And just like that… here it is. (Thanks to […]
February 6 2017
Film night: Ice fishing in Poland
At this time of year, it’s perfectly right and proper for most of the cool new videos from the northern hemisphere to be solidly snowsports-related… … but sometimes there’s a welcome piscatorial exception, and this one’s from Polish fly-fisher Piotr Gola, fishing the Dunajec where it flows through the town of Waksmund, between the Gorce […]
January 25 2017
Urbantrout Kryptek Highlander fishing trucker caps: New restyled 2017 edition
Way back when we came up with the idea of launching the Urbantrout range of eco-branded clothing (complete with 10% of profits going to help fund urban river mending projects) we knew we wanted to push some of the boundaries of normal fly-fishing clothing in the UK and Europe. After all… what springs to mind […]
January 16 2017
Pic of the day: The secret grayling hole
There’s a long and honourable tradition of Photoshopping the backgrounds of trophy fish photos in order to protect your favourite fishing spots… but this has got to be one of the finest and funniest we’ve ever seen. Kudos to Kieron for his outstanding photo manipulation skills (oh, and for persuading a frankly epic grayling to pose so […]
January 9 2017
Fishing in Switzerland: It’s complicated, but here’s your insider’s guide to the rules and regulations
Following his fascinating feature on fishing in Basel at the end of last year, Martin Pütter has very kindly written this guest post that’s designed to unlock the complexities of fishing across the whole of Switzerland (urban and otherwise). Thanks Martin… luckily for us, it looks like it’s mostly easier to be a visitor than a […]
January 2 2017
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 2 January
Falling in love with the Wandle: Damon Valentine‘s first feature for Eat, Sleep, Fish (and here’s the report from the Wandle Trust’s Christmas cleanup!) Catching the urban fly-fishing vibe at Orvis UK’s inaugural book evening: Calibre magazine reports from an exciting new literary festival The Wild Trout Trust‘s deculverting project on Sheffield’s Porter Brook wins a major national prize Fish […]
