Nick Thomas is no stranger to readers of this blog: having authored several of his own books, he’s also been a regular writer for Fly Culture magazine, and we’ve often featured his films and other work here on Urbantrout. And now there’s more… this time, a hugely impressive new book that follows his adventures as […]
Archive for the tag 'Grayling'
January 10 2026
Film night: Winter grayling fly-fishing in urban waters
Here’s a great little video to start 2026: an intrepid young couple fly-fishing for grayling on their local river somewhere (we think – no names, no pack drill!) in the Midlands or North of England. For urban river fans, despite the seasonal chill, there’s something warmingly familiar about the setting: sheet steel-pilings, at least […]
March 15 2025
The Wild Trout Trust Spring Auction 2024: Lots of urban fishing for all!
Yes, it’s that time of year again, when we remind our readers that the Wild Trout Trust Spring Auction is open for bidding… As usual, this is one of the Wild Trout Trust‘s most important fundraising events of the year – enabling them to help community groups, fishing clubs, landowners and even government agencies make […]
February 24 2023
Film night: Lady of the Stream
We’ve spoken before (see here, here and here) about the egalitarian, accessible nature of urban rivers, and how they seem to attract talented, adventurous women to their banks… … so now it’s time to welcome another one, Ellie Reeves, filmed by Tim Pottage aka Tim James, as she deftly tackles a stretch of free grayling […]
December 20 2022
Film night: Wild is Where You Find It
As we roll slowly towards the close of the year, it’s natural to look back at the fishing season and maybe even feel a bit contemplative. And this time round the sun, we’ve seen no better tribute to the last 12 months on the water than this new film from Nick Thomas. Nick will already […]
August 12 2022
Welsh river champions: FF&FT and T&S double up in south Wales
There must be something in the air (or water…) because two of the UK’s leading fly-fishing magazines are visiting the urban rivers of Wales in their September 2022 editions… … Fly-Fishing & Fly Tying tackling the Taff and Rhondda with Terry Bromwell and Charles Jardine, while Trout & Salmon explores the Ebbw with Kieron Jenkins […]
May 19 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…) […]
December 23 2021
Trout & Salmon explores the Yorkshire Calder
Sowerby Bridge might be familiar to you as the the setting for the BBC’s Happy Valley crime drama. It’s also the hometown of Phillippa Hake… one of the new generation of fly-fishers who has taken full advantage of the information age, rapidly ascending the learning curve to become an excellent angler in a relatively short […]
October 17 2021
Fly Fishing & Fly Tying: Urban fishing in Winchester
There’s no doubt that Winchester is one of the all-time-classic urban fishing destinations – since we saw that rippling chalkstream along the city’s Roman walls, we’ve loved it ourselves, never mind eulogising it in Trout in Dirty Places – and the latest issue of Fly Fishing & Fly Tying tells the story of how Cumbrian […]
