This year’s annual Wander up the Wandle – one of many urban lots in the Wild Trout Trust’s charity auction – was won by WTT supporter Tim Scoble, and claimed over the weekend. From sight-fishing for streetwise urban fish to clattering into the local branch of Sainsbury’s in full wading gear (with fly-rod still rigged… of course!) […]
Archive for the tag 'Urban rivers'
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 […]
May 10 2016
Urban fly-fishing: 5 (or more) top tips
If you’ve ever read our urban fly-fishing reports and wondered how or where to make a start on your own city-centre adventure, look no further than Urbantrout’s recent guest feature on the famous Turrall Flies blog. From staying safe to picking the right flies, and even watching out for aliens… it’s all there. Click through […]
May 4 2016
Urban fly-fishing report: Rea Brook, Shrewsbury
Spring is springing in the urban edgelands, and Urbantrout correspondent Spencer Clayton has been celebrating May Day on Shrewsbury’s magical little Rea Brook… I travelled light today, heading towards Shrewsbury by train from Wolverhampton station, reached Whitecroft Road at 11.30am and walked the banks, fishing upstream. It was chilly and rained until 2pm, so I […]
April 29 2016
Film night: Thanks from the Wandle!
When you’ve spent a decade (or more) steadily working away at mending the headwaters of an urban river… … you end up with lots of friends to thank. So the team at the Wandle Trust (now grown up into the South East Rivers Trust) made this video to celebrate the upper Wandle project’s success at […]
April 6 2016
UK River Prize 2016: Wandle wins urban category
Here at Urbantrout, it’s no secret that the River Wandle is very close to our hearts (in fact it’s right across the road from where we’re tapping out this blog post in the depths of south London). So it’s been quite a buzz to hear that the Wandle Trust’s work on the Carshalton arm of […]
March 15 2016
Pics of the day: Starting trout time in Andorra
Mid-March means the Wild Trout Trust charity auction is done, and trout season is starting all over. So we thought we’d go a little further afield than usual for our latest pics of the day… … all the way, in fact, to the Riú Gran Valira in Andorra la Vella, where the Pescadors D’Andorra have […]
March 5 2016
The Wild Trout Trust charity auction 2016: See what all this urban fishing fuss is about!
It’s early March already… and that can only mean one thing: the time has come for the Wild Trout Trust’s famous annual charity auction. Whether you’re a hardened connoisseur of urban fishing, or you just finally want to see what the fuss is about, we highly recommend reading through all 298 lots in the auction […]
February 23 2016
Pic of the day: Pre-season horse-hunting
Team Wychwood consultant and podcaster Glen Pointon is widely known for his frankly revolutionary floating C&R net and his semi-legendary horse-hunting escapades – catching big trout from notoriously Dirty Places like the upper Trent – and social media tells us he’s not resting on his laurels from previous seasons. Nope, he’s already out there on his […]
February 12 2016
Film night: Urban fishing (Norwegian winter edition)
From Dry Fly Living via the most-excellent-for-long-dark-evenings Orvis film site comes this fabulous little vignette of a group of Norwegian anglers getting their winter fly-fishing fix. To those of us watching from the UK… how much does this look like winter grayling fishing on some of our own favourite city streams in Sheffield, Huddersfield and […]
