A very short while back, I was asked by a couple of angling historians whether the photographs in my 1990... Read More
After the festive period has been and gone, I felt a quick return to the Alston letters would be of... Read More
A few days ago I returned from a recce down the M5 to Exmoor, and I’m off to the Exe... Read More
The heyday of the carved fish, generally Atlantic salmon, ran from the later Victorian period until World War II. In... Read More
For a long time I have been brooding about a barbel technique I flirted with around 1998/1999. In short, to... Read More
I had promised more news on my adventure for more barbel on fly, picking up on my trials back in... Read More
Just the other day I talked about fishing for asp around Europe and the fringes of Asia even, and then... Read More
So… there you go… a barbel every month of the winter, though I accept March might officially be the first... Read More
Many of us were brought up in our fishing infancy by the wise words of Mr Crabtree, aka Bernard Venables.... Read More
It seems that we are back to the formality of “Mr Buller” once more, and the handwriting is even more... Read More
Good to hear back on the grayling issue, and why rivers come and go with seemingly startling rapidity. Perhaps an... Read More
Another bleak day in Norfolk, and hard to believe this is the start of July – though of old I... Read More
As a bit of a birder, I was fascinated by the recent spat over in New York over the snowy... Read More
I’m glad that my piece on stocked trout yesterday raised an eyebrow or two. In many ways, as was hinted... Read More
First, all the blindingly obvious observations. The landscape in the Borders is staggering. The weather on day one was a... Read More
I saw in yesterday’s Sunday Times (5th September 2021) that Lyng Mill, in Lyng, Norfolk, has come on the market,... Read More
Hay on Wye is that charming town straddling the river and the England/Wales boundary. We all know it for its... Read More
They say you always remember where you were when hearing of calamitous events like 9/11, or for some of us... Read More
I had a dream. Three years ago, I managed a 97 acre wetland site in mid-Norfolk. I called it ‘Snow... Read More
We all think we know Marina Gibson from her TV appearances, her social media presence and her written words, but... Read More