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 […]
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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
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 up their waterways) … and here’s our throwback to the London 2012 opening ceremony! ‘I swear by the River […]
July 12 2024
Afonydd Cymru: Rivers of the Month
Readers of this blog and Trout in Dirty Places (not to mention also the Fishing in Wales website, administered by our good friend Ceri Thomas) will probably have no doubts about the merits of Wales as a fishing destination… … and now we’ve just noticed another fascinating resource that’s well worth your attention. Tucked away […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
February 27 2024
Film night: The Wandle at risk
One way and another, south London’s River Wandle never seems to be far from the news, but it’s been accumulating stories at impressive pace in the last few weeks. Maybe the biggest headlines landed (for instance, in the Sun and Angling Times) when local angler Hector Rodriguez unexpectedly struck into a spawned-out salmon kelt […]
December 20 2023
Latest urban river news from the Wild Trout Trust
Readers of Urbantrout who are also members of the Wild Trout Trust will recently have received the charity’s autumn newsletter for 2023 – and it’s now available for everyone to read online too, with plenty of urban updates for aficionados of city rivers: Tim Jacklin’s latest news from the demolition of Snake Lane weir in […]
