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 […]
Archive for the tag 'London'
December 20 2024
Film night: Flyfishing in London
Here’s a film we’ve been anticipating for a while: a guide to fly-fishing in and around the UK’s capital city, by Flyfishing Londoner Tim Pottage (mostly aka Tim James, we’re still not completely sure why). Tim announces up front that this video may be more for newcomers to London, or international visitors who need advice […]
August 5 2024
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 5 August
UK General Election 2024: Lib Dem Bobby Dean wins Carshalton and Wallington after campaigning for the River Wandle Natural capitals: how Paris made the Seine swimmable for ‘the most eco-friendly Olympic Games in history‘ (but see also the Rivers Trust’s assessment of Olympic athletes in urban rivers, including comparisons with Denmark’s record on cleaning […]
May 24 2024
Film night: Trout and tribulations
Complete with footage from this week’s River Festival and Summit at Morden Hall on the Wandle, this new video from the one and only Amie Battams is firmly tongue-in-cheek as we’ve come to expect… … but it also carries an incredibly important message about all our rivers for everyone who’s looking after them (or should […]
April 5 2024
The UK River Summit 2024 comes to the Wandle!
Following the success of three River Festivals and Summits in 2022 and 2023, and amid growing public concern about the state of our waterways, our good friend Claire Zambuni’s exciting new river collaboration event is back again in 2024… and it’s bigger and more ambitious than ever. For an occasion that’s intended to bring diverse […]
May 5 2023
Film night: Fera’s Trout Bum on the Wandle
Outdoor clothing and experience brand Fera have just marked the start of the trout season by launching their new Trout Bum (‘from street to stream’) capsule collection on the Wandle… … with an atmospheric shoot and edit by Patrick Tillard that nicely captures the edgeland beauty of the Hackbridge stretch of the river (restored so […]
April 10 2023
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 10 April
Vote today! The Wild Trout Trust’s Snake Lane urban weir removal project reaches the final 5 of this year’s Dam Removal Europe Awards Scenes from the Wandle: Extinction Rebellion declares the river a crime scene… … while the Wandle Piscators urban fishing club takes on the angling lease at Morden Hall Park Better Becks in […]
January 16 2023
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 16 January
(Un)build it and they will come! How a Wild Trout Trust urban weir removal project is bringing salmon back to Derbyshire’s River Ecclesbourne Championing the rights of rivers on east London’s urban Roding: Paul Powlesland speaks out in the Guardian Reclaiming the Don and Sheaf in Sheffield: an interview with Simon Ogden £1.6m fine for […]
July 4 2022
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 4 July
Citizen science is making a comeback… … and it’s boosting a British river revival (with this 20-year milestone for the Wandle too!) Weir today, gone tomorrow: demolition work starts on the River Kent’s Bowston paper mill weir Tackling plastic pollution with beach cleans in Cornwall, with lots of resonance for urban river restorationists including mental […]
