The SUNRISE project has featured on Urbantrout before… but not for a while, so we’re pretty stoked to see this update from the studio of Dr Paul Gaskell (himself involved in the project as the Wild Trout Trust’s Trout in the Town officer for the north of England). Funded by the EU’s European Regional Development […]
Archive for the tag 'Trent'
January 11 2021
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 11 January
SUNRISE creates an urban oasis in Stoke-on-Trent Wandering along the Wandle: recent articles in the Guardian and Times How the forthcoming Sewage (Inland Waters) Bill aims to tackle sewage pollution, after water companies dumped raw sewage into Britain’s rivers 200,000 times in 2019 Catch and kill? How city streets trap and poison fish… and what […]
June 29 2020
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 29 June
Lockdown litter from London to Derbyshire: a shocking new source of microplastics for the environment… … and what about tyre fragments from the roads? Transforming the Darent in Dartford: how SERT is restoring another urban chalkstream SUNRISE on the Trent: sometimes moving a river 500m sideways is the only way to restore it! Don Catchment […]
February 20 2018
Film night: Glen Pointon takes us to the hell-hole
It’s interesting to see how the idea of vlogging has come back round the loop again: maybe it never quite went away, but we’re sure there was some kind of hiatus between the old-skool DSLR / point-and-shoot cameras, and the new wave of smartphone streaming, Instagram stories and, well, you get the picture… Anyway, vlogging […]
February 13 2017
Pic of the day: Glen Pointon represents the Trent
Given a choice of home waters that includes the legendary Derbyshire Dove and Wye, you might expect occasional Urbantrout contributor Glen Pointon to pick one of those iconic limestone streams to represent the spirit of his fishing experience. But challenged by fellow guide Lewis Hendrie to post a favourite fishing photo on Facebook (just one of several […]
June 6 2016
Urban fly-fishing report: River Trent, somewhere in the English Midlands…
Over on his Facebook page, Team Wychwood consultant Glen Pointon has been following up all those early season recce missions with some serious big fish fighting patrols into the urban badlands. Naturally, we’re all about spreading the urban river fishing love (with suitable caveats against hotspotting, for obvious reasons) – so Glen has given us the […]
June 15 2015
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 15 June
The urban trout of a lifetime? Just like that, Manchester’s mighty Irwell system gives up a double for Stewart Carson (and maybe a sea trout too?) Tenkara in the Town hits Sheffield’s Hillsborough College Daylighting the Roch: work starts in Rochdale town centre Now open to the public for the first time in 100 years, a […]
