After the festive period has been and gone, I felt a quick return to the Alston letters would be of... Read More
Kirsty Hewitt of Fish & Fly, and Keith Elliott of Classic Angling, met up with Jeremy Wade to hear about... Read More
Over the past year, I have frequently highlighted the artists of one sort or another operating around the angling scene.... Read More
Apologies to Thomas Hardy for nicking his title, but events have taken me back to Norfolk this week, not to... Read More
A friend has just sent me a veiled diatribe in a recently published book. In it, although I am not... Read More
Easter Sunday was so mellow I spent it discovering hidden rivers around the new house and planting a seven foot... Read More
I assume that one of the pleasures of collecting, or even handling, an item of vintage fishing tackle is imagining... Read More
For reasons some might guess, I’m on my way North on Sunday/Monday coming. I’m around the Eden first, and then... Read More
Edward Alston is now safely ensconced in Warminster, and on good enough terms to start the letter “Fred”. (Though he... Read More
A very short while back, I was asked by a couple of angling historians whether the photographs in my 1990... Read More
A couple of days back, I went for one of the more enlightening meetings of my life at the Wye... Read More
I’ve just had a dreadful night, and the dread of being woken in the early hours is being realised with... 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
Good to hear back on the grayling issue, and why rivers come and go with seemingly startling rapidity. Perhaps an... Read More
On one of the forums recently interest was raised about the practice of catching barbel on the fly, and its... Read More
Yesterday, the 27th October, Enoka caught her first Wye double-figure barbel. She wouldn’t weigh it, but I’m guessing 11 pounds,... Read More
I spent a nostalgic Sunday assembling the Buller/Alston correspondence into some sort of order, and being generally appalled by the... Read More
On the 31st October The Sunday Times carried nigh on a full page review of the campaigning work carried out... Read More
Another bleak day in Norfolk, and hard to believe this is the start of July – though of old I... Read More
The heyday of the carved fish, generally Atlantic salmon, ran from the later Victorian period until World War II. In... Read More