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 […]
Archive for the tag 'Disley and New Mills'
January 16 2023
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 16 January
(Un)build it and they will come! How a Wild Trout Trust urban weir removal project is bringing salmon back to Derbyshire’s River Ecclesbourne Championing the rights of rivers on east London’s urban Roding: Paul Powlesland speaks out in the Guardian Reclaiming the Don and Sheaf in Sheffield: an interview with Simon Ogden £1.6m fine for […]
December 1 2014
Urban river restoration: Tree kickers on the Goyt
Way back in November 2010 when we explored Stockport’s River Goyt for Trout in Dirty Places (and interviewed local river restorationist Andrew Parker and other officials of the Disley & New Mills Angling Club), one of the most fascinating angles on this river’s recovery story was the structures called tree kickers installed in the channel. Securely […]
April 11 2012
Wood and water: LWD on the BBC
Woody debris on the radio… who knew the tools of river restoration geekdom could get so publicly funky? Following Good Friday’s post-industrial fly-fishing extravaganza on the Wandle, another programme took to the airwaves yesterday morning: this time exploring the role of large and coarse woody debris in renaturalising river systems both rural and urban. Clearly, as Angela […]
