The Eel Man of the Fens
An audio slideshow on the BBC News England website: Peter Carter’s family has been eel fishing in the Cambridgeshire Fens for the past 500 years. The 45-year-old, from Outwell, near Wisbech, believes he may be England’s only remaining eel catcher who makes and uses traditional willow traps. Mr Carter has been working with the Environment [...]
Kurt Jackson – The Dart
30 August 2010 // Miscellany //On Water
An exhibition of new work by Caught by the River contributor Kurt Jackson. 4 September and 2 October 2010 Lemon Street Gallery 13 Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2LS Press Release: Childhood memories of rural idyll mixed with a schoolboy’s excited view of war are at the heart of a new exhibition by the renowned [...]
Environment Agency investigating massive fish kill in River Line, East Sussex
News from the Environment Agency website. Environment Agency technical officers are working to find out what caused the almost complete loss of aquatic life in a stretch of the River Line last week. Members of the public contacted the organisation with reports of 40 dead trout in a tributary of the River Line near Battle. [...]
Untouched Waters
Hi, I just want to share that my friend Henrik Bonnevier is running a photo project up in Lappland in north of Sweden. He will stay there June-September in a roadless country to document yet unexploited running water. And there will be lots of fly fishing. The project will later result in a book. Thanks [...]
Traena
24 August 2010 // Music //On Water
by Luke Turner For most of the year, the flat grey cliffs, steep-sided inlets, rocky drowned valleys, and rolling slopes (richly carpeted with moss and wild flowers) of the Traena archipelago are home to just 400 people. Some work in the tourist industry, looking after guests in chalets painted red in the Scandinavian fashion. The [...]
The Buzz
by Helen Bullard. Outside our house the North Sea slips past; back and forth – the tidal pull of fish and men. The bank – on their side – slips with silt and ships and, further down, fishing boats. Our side is a fertile bed of razor grass and sea beat. When the July sun [...]
Steve’s Been Fishing
Jeff, As requested a few snaps from the ‘mighty’ tidal Trent. Having said that, it was all rather benign, very low levels, a subdued flow and a very small tidal range. Made this rank amateur’s job much easier. The clear water and low-levels made the gravel simple to find and armed with a bit of [...]
Fishes of Great Britain, 1902
from Biblio Odyssey. ‘Our Country’s Fishes and How to Know Them: a Guide to all the Fishes of Great Britain’, by W.J. Gordon with every species illustrated in colour, and many sketches in outline by A. Lambert’ [1902] is hosted by the Biodiversity Heritage Library (on behalf of the Library of the University of California). [...]
The Hackney Optimist
illustration by John Richardson. by Luke Turner. Part One. Perhaps the part of Caught By The River’s Collection Of Words On Water that most caught my imagination was the extract that told of the hundreds of men who, every Sunday, would mumble excuses to both spouse and the Lord, and eschew church in favour of [...]
Wild Swimming on the iPlayer
Alice Roberts follows in the wake of (Roger Deakin’s) Waterlog. for more information on the programme and for useful links and tips for wild swimmers visit the BBC 4 website.
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