Bristol’s River Frome has been on the Urbantrout radar for years (check out this fishing report we published in 2015) but after racking our brains we still think this is the first time we’ve seen the river on film. This 14-minute video by Aleksander Domanski is a beautiful tribute to the Frome, explaining history, geology […]
Archive for the tag 'Trout'
March 18 2026
The Wild Trout Trust Spring Auction 2026: Get your urban fishing here!
As the new trout fishing season spools up, the annual Wild Trout Trust charity auction is now in full flow… … offering exciting opportunities for anyone who’d like to find unusual fishing (and indeed books, artwork, fishing tackle, expert-tied flies and non-fishing experiences that can’t usually be bought). This online event is one of WTT’s […]
March 1 2026
Source to City: A portrait of the River Taff
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 […]
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 […]
October 24 2024
Dan Osmond: Heavy Metal Trout in Hard Rock Rivers
The world is full of podcasts, and FOMO is real… so here’s a brilliant (not to mention, ahem, ‘metal AF‘) half-hour of listening that we’d highly recommend adding to your playlist. Daniel Osmond is a writer, friend of Urbantrout and senior fisheries officer with Westcountry Rivers Trust who’s recently finished his PhD on the wide […]
September 1 2024
Trout & Salmon: Don Stazicker fishes the Goyt
It’s always a bit of a buzz to see an urban river headlining the pages of the UK’s prestigious Trout & Salmon magazine, and this month is no exception – featuring as it does a portrait of the River Goyt by regular columnist (and well-known fishing film-maker) Don Stazicker. Having previously explored the Yorkshire Calder […]
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 26 2024
Fly Culture: Nick Thomas finds wildness on the Taff
Behind the frankly stunning cover image from AD Maddox, the latest issue of Pete Tyjas’s Fly Culture magazine contains the usual rich mix of writing and photography… … Dan Osmond’s right to roam on Dartmoor, Ben Jailler braving ‘The Silence of the Lagg’, Adrian Grose-Hodge interviewing Bob DeMott, Jon Brett-Harris taking riverside walks… … and […]
March 17 2024
The Wild Trout Trust charity auction 2024: Bid today!
If you’ve been reading this website for a while, you’ll know that we like to provide our readers with a curated list of urban-related lots from the Wild Trout Trust’s Spring Auction each year. That’s because WTT runs the Trout in the Town network of community groups that seeks to improve urban rivers everywhere (as […]
