In bitterly cold conditions that he could only describe afterwards as raining, snowing, sleeting, absolutely everything… … Urbantrout editor-at-large (and key consultant on Trout in Dirty Places) Richard Baker spent his northern opening day fly-fishing the urban upper reaches of the Mersey system controlled by Saddleworth Angling Society. When his fingers had thawed enough to […]
Archive for the tag 'Urban fishing'
March 7 2013
The Wild Trout Trust charity auction 2013: What’s your urban fly-fishing lot?
This year’s much-anticipated Wild Trout Trust annual fundraising auction has just gone live on ebay. At Urbantrout we know a significant number of anglers who use the auction as a guide to planning their season’s fishing. So when we found ourselves marking up the printed catalogue with all the urban fishing options before saving a list of […]
March 1 2013
Film night: Biosecurity TV
Many of the rivers and streams in our towns and cities have quite enough problems already… so why risk adding any more in the form of invasive species carried by anglers and others who work and play in and around the water? In this inspiring short film that’s already going viral across the internet, Riverfly […]
February 25 2013
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 25 February
Midcurrent reviews the latest Orvis fly-fishing sling pack (we’re loving the digital camo colourway for stealthy urban ops… stay tuned for something special!) Retreat from trouble: the Porter Brook’s native white-clawed crayfish are evacuated from Sheffield city centre to a high-altitude ark site somewhere in the surrounding Pennines A few miles upstream from that tunnel, […]
January 28 2013
Pasties, plastic bags and public engagement: Greggs the Bakers’ double bonus for south Wales rivers
Although the current wave of Water Framework Directive related funding (via Defra’s River Improvement Fund and subsequent Catchment Restoration Fund) have seen welcome injections of capital into river restoration work across the UK… … the fact remains that funding options for catchment-scale projects remain decidedly limited, and still largely dependent on grants from government and […]
January 18 2013
Film night: Fly-fishing the urban Potomac
Via Moldy Chum comes this intriguing trailer for the imminent 2013 Fly Fishing Film Tour, featuring four dedicated urban fly-fishermen making the most of what’s in their own backyard in Washington DC. From the film-maker’s blurb: In an unlikely setting of concrete vistas, population density and traffic nightmares, the Potomac River proves that adventure and […]
January 9 2013
Challenge Buxton 2013: Who’s up for restoring the top of the Derbyshire Wye?
Even the smartest towns sometimes have dirty places, down the inaccessible backs of car parks and petrol stations… and in those places you’ll often find trout! In truth, this particular dirty place was hard to miss when I visited the top of the Derbyshire Wye at the start of last season: an outsize plunge pool […]
December 3 2012
Pic of the day: The river in winter
Fishing a city river in winter can show you both what you’re really made of. In this case it’s collapsing sheet steel undercuts versus 110% hardcore, as Adrian Grose-Hodge sizes up a sub-zero stretch of the Wandle near Plough Lane in south London… (Photo: Sam Newson)
November 28 2012
Fishtec: Feeling the blog love…
It’s a real honour to announce that Fishtec, the tackle retailer based in urbantrout’s favourite Usk valley town of Brecon (hint: check out the Breconshire fishery) have now listed this site in their second instalment of fly-fishing blogs to be reckoned with. Fishtec’s online marketing manager Kieron Jenkins, himself no mean writer and blogger, has […]
November 12 2012
Urbantrout sidecasts: Monday 12 November
Kranj time for trophy hunters: urban huchen fishing revealed on Slovenia’s legendary Sava (top tip: arm up with 8-10 weights or heavier) US-based Clean Water Future’s community engagement crowd-funding model brings Kickstarter-style fundraising to river restoration Bakewell or bust: 3 Wandle Piscators sample street-fishing on the Derbyshire Wye Shaun Leonard, Paul Gaskell, Tim Jacklin and […]
