Urbantrout’s iconic hoodies are designed to help you fish where you live, taking you comfortably from riverbank (concrete or otherwise!) to city bar or wilderness roadhouse with almost-invisible stealth or bright yet organic urban style. Now it’s September, we’re celebrating the arrival of autumn with Urbantrout’s first design-your-own-hoodie week – helping you express your colder-weather […]
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August 28 2013
The Urbantrout Diaries: Spinners in south London
Before our good friend Paul Sharman left MacNab Media to take up his new post with the Angling Trust, we’d been discussing a very exciting new joint venture between Urbantrout and Flyfishing.co.uk … … dubbed The Urbantrout Diaries for reasons which might be kinda obvious already. Now, with many thanks to Paul’s successors Sofi and […]
August 19 2013
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 19 August
Remembering Peter Lapsley: writer, conservationist, President of the Wandle Piscators and much more Urban fly-fishing in Germany: Tankred Rinder reports from the post-industrial River Rur in Monschau Less heat, more light? An ongoing (currently civilised and seemingly well-informed) discussion of fracking in the UK context Lost urban rivers beneath our feet, and why they’re important […]
August 12 2013
Urban fly-fishing report: River Taff, Merthyr Tydfil
Fearless urban fly-fishers Lee Evans and Daniel Popp tackled the upper Taff this weekend, and Lee just posted this haiku-like report and pic on Facebook: Jackson’s Bridge, River Taff, Merthyr Tydfil – mad dog barking and slavering in an adjacent garden, sewage outfall into the pool and the air filled with the heady scent of […]
July 30 2013
Urban fly-fishing report: River Kenwater, Leominster
After this year’s CLA Game Fair at Ragley Hall, the Urbantrout team went on the road for a week in a heatwave in the Welsh Marches… … fishing the Teme with publisher Merlin Unwin in a spectacular gorge near Leintwardine, vainly scanning the steaming surface of the same river further downstream in Ludlow for any […]
July 18 2013
Urbantrout sidecasts: Thursday 18 July
How the Welsh fly-fishing team won gold in the 2013 Rivers International on the rejuvenated Taff: Kieron Jenkins reports News from the Wandle: confirmation of the HLF’s very first urban landscape partnership scheme worth £1.9m, newly-deculverted headwaters in Croydon… and it’s open season on Himalayan balsam! Somewhere near Stanton, Mick Martin tracks down one of […]
July 8 2013
Urban fly-fishing report: River Itchen, Winchester
Regular Urbantrout readers will probably recognise the city of Winchester as one of our favourite beats: this stretch of the Itchen was already a post-industrial river when Frederic Halford and his fellow grandees of the Flyfishers’ Club held their annual Mayfly Mess at the Royal Hotel in the Victorian era, and we always like to […]
July 1 2013
Urbantrout’s online shop is open!
It’s a real thrill to announce that our new online shop is now open, selling our introductory range of Urbantrout branded hoodies, t-shirts, fishing caps, and even window stickers for your fishing wagon – as well as signed copies of Trout in Dirty Places (just in case you haven’t got yours yet). Click here to […]
June 27 2013
Urban fly-fishing report: River Don, Sheffield
Thanks to a generous winning bid in this year’s Monnow Rivers Association charity auction, The River Beat blog recently visited Sheffield’s River Don for an introduction to urban fly-fishing… … walled in by pre-industrial brick and post-industrial modern glass, a Holiday Inn and busy road bridges. The sounds of general human commotion were never far […]
