The End is Nigh
The Dorset Stour, Throop. 7am, Friday the 5th of March. Pic by Steve Phillips.
On what was likely to be our last days fishing of the season Steve and I visited the Dorset Stour and fished beat two of Throop. Arriving on the afternoon of the 2nd we listened on as men dressed as trees (a [...]
Thames Clean Up
Thames21 media notice
DATE: Tuesday 2 March. TIME: 0800 – 10:30
Staff volunteers from major supermarket retailers will be joining Thames21’s volunteers to help remove plastic bag litter from the foreshore at the Isle of Dogs, East London, on Tuesday 2 March.
This will mark the start of Thames21’s ‘Deep Clean’ two day event on the [...]
Waterlog
10 February 2010 // Books // On Water
Issue 70 out now.
Radio Times: Living World: Pike
Broadcast on Radio Four at 6.30am on Sunday, 31st January. Listen on the iplayer.
The pike has a fearsome reputation as Britain’s most successful freshwater river predator. Keen fisherman and retired freshwater biologist Mike Ladle will never forget the first time he landed a pike. He was trying to catch eels, and hauled up a pike [...]
Sticklebacks
words & illustration by Jonathan Newdick.
‘And that, Best Beloved, is the reason why the stickleback hangs in the water with his tail curled to one side.’ Rudyard Kipling might have been moved to devise a whimsical and entertaining reason for this phenomenon but why does the stickleback invariably rest in this position? Probably because he [...]
Postcard from Nick Small
22 January 2010 // Miscellany // On Water
Hi Jeff,
A beautiful piece from Arcadia yesterday:
“cake on the bird table” made me laugh, as the tangled, fibrous wiring in my disorganised mind connected that line with the single released by (world champion match angler) Bob Nudd back in the early 90s, which was imaginatively titled “Maggots in Your Catapult”.
GobTV pitched to make [...]
A Compleat Compendium of Fact, Folklore, Fun and Fancy on the Gentle Art of Angling
(click on image twice to enlarge).
A rare BBC radio recording from February 1970, featuring, among others, angling greats Fred J Taylor and Clive Gammon, folk song from Brett Stevens and even an angling quiz, presented by one of the greatest natural history writers and broadcasters, the lateEric Simms. Listen to it as a podcast HERE [...]
Chris Yates in The Telegraph today
(photo; Clare Hatcher).
“There’s rarely a dull moment on the water”, says Chris Yates, in the Telegraph today.
The Deadliest Catch
5 January 2010 // Film/TV // On Water
For those in peril on the sea by Mathew Clayton
One of the more unexpected consequences of becoming a parent is that you start watching strange television programmes when everyone else has gone to bed. Last Thursday morning at 4am I was sat on the couch, blanket on legs, gurgling wide awake baby on lap, completely [...]
Caught by the River