After a few months’ break, our Urbantrout Diaries series returned to Flyfishing.co.uk just before Christmas…

… with a blockbuster mini-series reviewing all the great urban river restoration projects that took place across the UK in 2014:

Part 1: Weir removal, fish passage and remeandering on the Wandle

Part 2: Community engagement, WFD compliance and Wild Trout Trust Conservation Awards for the Medlock, Calder and Brun

Part 3: Lower-cost (but no less effective) volunteer-led works on the Cale, Slea, Holme and Don

Please click on over to Flyfishing.co.uk to read and wonder at all these groundbreaking initiatives (and visit the websites of the projects too, if you get a chance – you’ll find most of them listed in the blogroll on the right hand side of this page).

(Photo: John Sutton / Wild Trout Trust)

Tags: Brun, Burnley, Calder, Don, Education and engagement, Fish passage, Holme, Huddersfield, London, Manchester, Medlock, Sheffield, Slea, Sleaford, Wandle, Water Framework Directive, Wincanton