Rivers of plastic: why so many urban river projects have been running community cleanups every month for more than 15 years (and why we need to carry on!) How Helsinki’s Longinoja project won the Finnish Biodiversity Award 2017-18 Urban forests for Scotland’s post-industrial wastelands Red river backwards: a letter from Berlin’s River Spree Putting numbers […]
Archive for the tag 'Manchester'
March 9 2019
The Wild Trout Trust charity auction 2019: Bid for a season of urban fishing adventures!
Regular readers of Urbantrout will probably know that the Wild Trout Trust auction, which takes place at the start of trout fishing season in the UK each year, is the charity’s biggest annual fundraising event. Of course, the fundraising aspect alone would be reason enough for us to support this legendary event. But it’s a […]
November 7 2018
Tweet of the day: Salmon on the Goyt
Up up and away…. Salmon action on the River Goyt pic.twitter.com/XH3Q61i7Bd — Mersey Rivers Trust (@MerseyRivers) November 6, 2018 As our post-industrial rivers steadily recover from the ravages of the Industrial Revolution, it’s almost impossibly thrilling to imagine salmon returning to catchments where they used to run in thousands – all the more so, when […]
September 22 2018
Fly Culture magazine: Trout on the Train
A couple of months ago, we posted a fishing report from the River Tame in Manchester… … essentially a sneak preview of a feature for an exciting new fishing magazine: Pete Tyjas’s Fly Culture. And now the finished article is finally here! Complete with amazing photos from Paul Gaskell, Trout on the Train provides readers […]
September 3 2018
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 3 September
Plastic pollution in rivers: has Wales reached a tipping point? Bradford Beck runs black with sewage, killing fish and invertebrates (just days after suffering runoff from a waste depot fire at Shipley) How dams damage rivers, and why it’s good to remove them Plastic rivers (again): most marine pollution doesn’t start in the sea If […]
June 20 2018
Urban fly-fishing report: River Tame, Stalybridge
A few days ago, the new combined Trout in the Town team took to the rails to travel from (nearly) opposite ends of the country… … and converged at Stalybridge for a flying visit to an urban river that’s been much in the news recently. Paul and I both knew how the lovely little River […]
April 30 2018
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 30 April
Streamers on the Irwell: Martin’s Minnow strikes again for David James Bendle Getting the green light: new hope for a bottle and can deposit scheme in England and Wales (as well as mutant plastic-munching enzymes to break down PET) Plastic pollution again: we all know the value of river clean-ups, so maybe now’s the time […]
April 17 2018
In the Telegraph: River guardians of the Tame
I’m knee-deep in the river Tame in Stalybridge, 15 miles east of Manchester. Beside me is Woz Andrew, a local fly-fishing guide. After climbing down a flight of stone steps from road level – hollowed by a century of boots and a remnant of this river’s industrial past – we have made our way slowly […]
March 19 2018
Trout & Salmon says: Meet the London rods
After December’s and January’s articles on urban fishing in Holmfirth and South London, Trout & Salmon has only gone and done it again… … with a feature in the April 2018 issue on London-based fly-fishers (and the London Flyfishing Fair on 23-24 March). By now, of course, most readers of Urbantrout won’t need much convincing […]
February 5 2018
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 5 February
Finding Bruce the shark: latest community cleanup news from the Wandle … but it’s double trouble for the Hogsmill, and all that fly-tipping in Wandsworth is getting way beyond a joke Trout in the Town: updates from Birmingham and Coventry Defending Richmond Park’s Beverley Brook from urban runoff (Part 2 – here’s part 1) … […]
