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 […]
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January 11 2016
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 11 January
Cleaning up after the floods: 25 volunteers from the Mersey Basin Rivers Trust tackle debris in Bury’s Springwater Park “Flood management is more or less where medicine was in the 17th century: unscientific and irrational”: George Monbiot tackles Permanent Ineligible Features (PIFs) and farming subsidy public spending that ‘rushes rivers into our homes‘… … and […]
January 2 2016
Film night: Natural flood risk management in Stroud
As one of the warmest and wettest Decembers on record spills over into a grey and soggy January, and flood risk management in urban areas continues to polarise the national conversation… … it’s easy to feel kinda helpless in the face of epic natural disasters like the Irwell floods that recently took out the 200 […]