It’s a real thrill to announce that our new online shop is now open, selling our introductory range of Urbantrout branded hoodies, t-shirts, fishing caps, and even window stickers for your fishing wagon – as well as signed copies of Trout in Dirty Places (just in case you haven’t got yours yet). Click here to […]
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June 17th 2013
Urbantrout gear
Over several years of researching Trout in Dirty Places and running this blog, we’ve noticed something very strange about modern fly-fishing gear. If you want to stroll the banks of a manicured chalkstream, or cast a fly across a well-appointed salmon river, there’s plenty of old-school tweed and waxed cotton to help you look the […]
February 27th 2013
Shop Urbantrout
Welcome to Urbantrout’s online shop. All purchases from our shop are secured by Paypal. So you can buy from us with complete confidence, knowing that your information and purchase are fully protected. Simply select the item(s) you’d like to purchase, and they’ll be added automatically to your shopping cart. Your cart will appear on the […]
May 19th 2022
Fins and Finns: Rewilding Oulujoki and other Nordic rivers
One of the wider Urbantrout team has recently been spending time in the Finnish city of Oulu, and simultaneously we’ve noticed a certain uptick in news from Finland’s urban and otherwise post-industrial rivers (of course, correlation still doesn’t amount to causation, no matter how influential we like to think our various team members really are…) […]
April 30th 2022
10 years of Urbantrout and Trout in Dirty Places
This month, it’s 10 years since Trout in Dirty Places launched on a (mostly) unsuspecting world. Merlin Unwin Books and Granger’s fly shop threw us one hell of a party, and for a few days, the weird idea of fishing in urban rivers was making headlines across the media, including the Independent, Radio New Zealand, […]
March 21st 2022
The Wild Trout Trust charity auction 2022: Back, bigger and badder than ever!
The Wild Trout Trust’s annual auction is back, and this year it’s bigger than ever before, with no less than 366 lots to choose from. One of the gnarliest challenges for any charity is raising long-term core funds which aren’t tightly tied to delivery of very specific short-term projects – and that’s why this fundraising […]
March 19th 2021
The Wild Trout Trust charity auction 2021: It’s on!
OK boys and girls, we think you know the drill… this year’s Wild Trout Trust auction has just gone live, from today until the evening of Sunday 28 March. Which means it’s time to start planning some highlights of your fishing season around this carefully-assembled selection of fishing-related opportunities (including the urban ones which we’ve […]
May 19th 2020
Pic of the day: Hackbridge on the Wandle
As the Covid-19 lockdown tentatively lifts across different regions of the UK, #FishWhereYouLive seems to be the best first option for many flyfishers… … including those who live within striking distance of the Wandle in south London. One of these is Tom Clinton, retail manager at Farlows fishing shop on Pall Mall, and he’s been […]
January 13th 2020
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 13 January
Salmon in the Stour: part of the International Year of the Salmon, and an epic new challenge for one Black Country trout fisherman! Rewilding our cities: Copenhagen’s Amager Nature Centre shows how learning from nature can make great future places to live Exciting proposals for a new wetland on South London’s Hogsmill River, as development […]
