Jack Croxall: Tap, tap, tap…
What follows is testimony from a resident of Leicestershire, recorded some years ago.
I was fishing as a boy, crouching by the water’s edge,...
Rod Sturdy: Return to the Kanektok
A cast across the current: the line began to swing round, gradually, with the help of a mend or two, taking on a lovely...
Alone on the River
Committing one’s self to print sometimes requires a bit of courage. Once it’s down there, it’s there for good, to be read and re-read...
Sharing Knowledge – New Video Series from Thomas Turner Fishing Antiques
Thomas Turner Fishing Antiques, part of the Fish and Fly Group of popular international fishing website and community forums, has launched a brand-new online...
Rod Sturdy: WANTED – AN EFFECTIVE WATER POLICY
Persuading politicians to form any kind of coherent, long-term policy is not exactly easy. One issue which needs tackling – and badly – is...
A Snippet from Yester-Year…
1984 was probably the last year that my enthusiasm for angling could be labelled 'fanatical'; the all‑consuming desire to grab the best swim in...
Let’s have some cartoons!
With so little to report from the fishing front in my part of the world, perhaps a few funnies can fill the gap left...
Charles Overton: The Vicar’s Tale.
It was late September 1993, just a year or so after the salmon ladders were installed on the Thames weirs, that I made a...
Rod Sturdy: North to the Future.
The moment I’d waited for had arrived: the fly line twitched and moved strangely in the current. I raised the rod and found myself...
A Rod Hutchinson Blast from the Past…
Sometimes in life, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, so you drink your milk up.
It had been getting to me, all...
