It is with much sadness that my time on the Thomas Turner websites has drawn to a close. For me... 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
Well, my great friend Simon spent yesterday getting me in part conversant with my Facebook account that I had let... Read More
It seems that I cannot avoid Theo Pike. Yesterday I received an email from him, quite out of the blue.... Read More
Well, the frost-rimed fields around my house suggest winter sure is back, and yesterday when the sun got up, I... Read More
On the 31st October The Sunday Times carried nigh on a full page review of the campaigning work carried out... Read More
I’m gratified there is still interest in the Wye and all our rivers, but then again, how can there not... Read More
The Wild Trout Trust annual fundraising auction takes place 18-27 March on the WTT’s own auction website. With 366 Lots,... Read More
I relish chalk stream fishing when I can get it, though with reservations. Stocked fish of size rarely interest me... Read More
Angling is hardly a world wherein woke attitudes have really taken root, but perhaps they should. Diversity is a concept... Read More
I have a great regard for Fish Legal, the pollution fighting arm of the Angling Trust. Yesterday they sent all... Read More
I am not here to praise Fishing Breaks or suggest that you book a day on a chalk stream with... Read More
A friend has just sent me a veiled diatribe in a recently published book. In it, although I am not... Read More
Apologies to Thomas Hardy for nicking his title, but events have taken me back to Norfolk this week, not to... Read More
These pictures from Monday have raised eyebrows amongst my friends, and indeed are impressive in their biblical, dawn-of-time way. Of... Read More
On Monday just gone Enoka’s first grayling came from a tributary of the Wye and fell for a Squirmy Wormy,... Read More
Interesting to see the Sunday Times magazine (January 9th 2022) covering the plight of the salmon netsmen of yore. The... Read More
For nigh on forty years I was a member of the truly excellent Norfolk Flyfishers’ Club (NFC), and it was... Read More
As a one-time professional historian, I had sympathy for Huw Edwards this week for being roundly censored by his employer,... 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
A couple of days back, I went for one of the more enlightening meetings of my life at the Wye... Read More