There must be something in the air and the water at the moment… because for the second time this autumn, there’s a new quarterly print magazine for fly-fishers in the UK and further afield. Better still, the first issue of Today’s Flyfisher (just like the launch edition of Fly Culture) pays its respects to the […]
Archive for the tag 'Urban fishing'
October 3 2018
Urban fly-fishing report: Silt Road edition
Here in south-west England, trout fishing closes at the end of September… so the Urbantrout team thought we’d better get out on one of our favourite local streams for the last time this year. In the end, curiosity won out over familiarity, and we took a side trip up a tiny industrialised tributary we’d been […]
September 22 2018
Fly Culture magazine: Trout on the Train
A couple of months ago, we posted a fishing report from the River Tame in Manchester… … essentially a sneak preview of a feature for an exciting new fishing magazine: Pete Tyjas’s Fly Culture. And now the finished article is finally here! Complete with amazing photos from Paul Gaskell, Trout on the Train provides readers […]
September 3 2018
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 3 September
Plastic pollution in rivers: has Wales reached a tipping point? Bradford Beck runs black with sewage, killing fish and invertebrates (just days after suffering runoff from a waste depot fire at Shipley) How dams damage rivers, and why it’s good to remove them Plastic rivers (again): most marine pollution doesn’t start in the sea If […]
August 23 2018
Urban fly-fishing report: River Wandle, south London
The new Orvis #50/50onthewater campaign has been designed to encourage equal opportunities and participation in flyfishing, getting more women out onto our rivers, lakes and streams, and we couldn’t be more delighted to see this effect trickling down into the urban side of this sport we love. Last weekend, newly-converted urban flyfishing aficionados Susan Skrupa […]
June 20 2018
Urban fly-fishing report: River Tame, Stalybridge
A few days ago, the new combined Trout in the Town team took to the rails to travel from (nearly) opposite ends of the country… … and converged at Stalybridge for a flying visit to an urban river that’s been much in the news recently. Paul and I both knew how the lovely little River […]
May 17 2018
It’s a double hook-up! Urban flyfishing hits T&S and FF&FT in the same month
What’s this? Yes, you read it right: our little niche-within-a-niche of urban flyfishing has just scored (we think) a historic double hook-up… …with big features in the pages of both Trout & Salmon and Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazines in the very same month. The June issue of T&S goes bold with a beautifully-crafted piece […]
April 30 2018
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 30 April
Streamers on the Irwell: Martin’s Minnow strikes again for David James Bendle Getting the green light: new hope for a bottle and can deposit scheme in England and Wales (as well as mutant plastic-munching enzymes to break down PET) Plastic pollution again: we all know the value of river clean-ups, so maybe now’s the time […]
April 17 2018
In the Telegraph: River guardians of the Tame
I’m knee-deep in the river Tame in Stalybridge, 15 miles east of Manchester. Beside me is Woz Andrew, a local fly-fishing guide. After climbing down a flight of stone steps from road level – hollowed by a century of boots and a remnant of this river’s industrial past – we have made our way slowly […]
February 20 2018
Film night: Glen Pointon takes us to the hell-hole
It’s interesting to see how the idea of vlogging has come back round the loop again: maybe it never quite went away, but we’re sure there was some kind of hiatus between the old-skool DSLR / point-and-shoot cameras, and the new wave of smartphone streaming, Instagram stories and, well, you get the picture… Anyway, vlogging […]
