Rough Trade, Launched
22 September 2011 // Books //Caught By... //Events //Miscellany
Even by Caught By The River’s eclectic standards, last night was a new one on us. Andrews of Arcadia put it perfectly when he pointed out that we were holding an event to celebrate the launch of a book shelf.
UPDATE – Rough Trade & Nature Disco Tonight!
20 September 2011 // Caught By... //Miscellany //Music
In case you missed it, we thought we’d remind you that we’re hosting two events in London this evening, one after the other just up the road, both free. The first is at the Rough Trade shop in the Truman Brewery and features us lot in conversation about On Nature with John Andrews and a [...]
On Nature: Book Launch in London
17 July 2011 // Caught By... //On Nature
All welcome but only a limited number of tickets are available. Please rsvp by midnight on Monday.
Joseph’s Chair
A vintage tackle dealers story by Peter Carman. Just another telephone call, “About your advertisement – I have some fishing tackle, unfortunately it won’t be used any more. Some of it is quite old.” Let me explain. I am a collector, but like a lot of us, I sell a little, swap a little and [...]
The Caught by the River Social Club
A get together of Caught by the River contributors made the landlord of a central London pub very happy last week. Hands were shook, pints were bought, greetings were traded and Robin, Andrew and myself thanked everyone present for playing a part in the development and progress of this site over the last three years. [...]
A Year of Fishing Volume 1.
25 February 2010 // Caught By...
Winter Pike featuring Fred J Taylor and Richard Walker Listen to it as a CBTR podcast or download free from our itunes page. Review by John Andrews. until the last surviving thames professional roger wyndham-barnes untied his punt at shiplake and took anglers downstream to his favourite weirpool, the best thing to have come out [...]
Pike Drama
24 February 2010 // Caught By...
Nick Small chanced upon this amazing photo on Flickr at the weekend. The drama of it blew us away so we got in touch with the guy and this is what he told us; ….All this happen last monday..We are fishermen first and we have great access to beautifull scotland ..I take friends out fishing [...]
Fisherman’s Story of the Year, 1952
19 February 2010 // Caught By...
”In the early hours of the 13th of September last (4.45 a.m, to be exact), Richard Walker, of Hitchin, was in his tent beside Redmire Pool in the West Country”….. B.B, on the day that Richard met Clarissa, from Country Fair magazine, December 1952. click HERE to see the story as it originally appeared.
Fisherman’s Story of the Year, 1952.
18 February 2010 // Caught By...
Introduction by Jon Berry. It is all but impossible to imagine carp fishing before Walker caught his 44-pounder from Redmire in September 1952. The small band of carp fishers in post-war England doubtless knew of Albert Buckley and of the mysterious Otto Overbeck, but big fish were scarce and those chasing them scarcer still. BB’s [...]
Silver Out – Silver In
13 January 2010 // Caught By...
Wild West Greybacks by Richard Worthy Charlie Bettinson. Golitha Falls, 28th Nov 1974. 24lbs 38” Fast moving water crashes onto granite as its spume is thrown into the dull winter’s light, expressed by the gullies, cuts and crevices through which this relentless flow presses and thunders. December lies heavy at Golitha Falls on the Fowey [...]
