What I’ve written elsewhere
In addition to the books and occasional contributory chapters I’ve written (all listed on the About me page of this site), I’ve been honoured to compose the following Forewords for friends and fellow writers:
- Nick Thomas’s Source to City (2026)
- Gilbert Thompson’s Time Spent Fishing (2017)
- Bob Steel and Derek Coleman’s River Wandle Companion and Wandle Trail Guide (2012)
Starting in 2003, I’ve also written many articles on fly-fishing and environmental matters for magazines and sites across the internet. Here they are (mostly) in one place:
Fly Culture
- The Bowerbird’s Warning (Summer 2022)
- Fish where you live (Spring 2021)
- Limestone chemistry (Spring 2020)
- Catching wild trout: a skill and a privilege (interview with WTT’s Gareth Pedley) (Autumn 2019)
- Trout on the train (Autumn 2018)
Fallon’s Angler
- When we’re gone (Issue 23: August 2021)
- Delayed gratification (Issue 9: Spring 2017)
- The unsolicited salmon (Issue 8: Autumn 2016)
- Review of Mark Everard’s River Habitats for Coarse Fish (September 2016)
- It’s chalk, Jacques, but not as we know it… (Issue 7: Summer 2016)
- The mighty Usk (Issue 2: Winter 2014)
- War, wildness and wet (Issue 1: Autumn 2014)
Financial Times: How To Spend It
- Wild weather on the Isle of Mull, a front line of the environmental movement (January 2013)
- Fishing for answers: environmental and angling policy (February 2012)
- Fly-fishing in the freezer (January 2012)
- Fish lit at 35,000 feet (November 2011)
- The rise of the urban river (October 2011)
- Fly-fishing with modern art: the vintage ultralight rig that feels like an extension of your arm (July 2011)
- What lives beneath? Tiny bugs with big implications (April 2011)
- Fly-fishing for memories in the Austrian Alps (March 2011)
- Making rivers fishable for future generations (January 2011)
- Spawned in South London (November 2010)
Fishtec
- How to plan your season of fishing adventures with the Wild Trout Trust auction (March 2019)
- Top tips for fry feeders (October 2018)
- Dry or die! Floating flies for September trout (September 2018)
- How to support the Wild Trout Trust (March 2018)
- Countdown to opening day: Fishtec’s review of the UK’s top 10 reservoir fisheries (February 2018)
- The green menace: fighting back against invasive non-native plants (January 2018)
- River pollution: how anglers can help (October 2017)
- Pacific salmon: the pink peril (October 2017)
- Who’s the Daddy? Fishing craneflies for end of season trout (September 2017)
Eat, Sleep, Fish
- Review of Vision Kalu reel (December 2015)
- Ultralight fly-fishing (May 2013)
- 10 top tips for urban fly-fishers (July 2012)
Flyfishers’ Journal
- Trout in Dirty Places: Fly fishing comes to town (Winter 2012)
- I wish I’d fished with… Lord Nelson and Sir William and Lady Hamilton (Winter 2010)
Fly Fishers’ Republic
- Aliens 2 (September 2012)
- Aliens 1 (May 2012)
- Review of Charles Rangeley-Wilson’s Bonefish DVD (February 2009)
- Review of William Joseph Equinox sling pack (February 2009)
- Review of Snowbee Diamond 10ft 3-4wt rod (November 2008)
- Trout Tank Trilogy part 3 (May 2007)
- Trout Tank Trilogy part 2 (April 2007)
- Trout Tank Trilogy part 1 (March 2007)
- Trout and Salmon in the Classroom (February 2007)
- Staying safe during river cleanups (January 2007)
- Zero tolerance and the art of urban river cleanups (December 2006)
- Rock-turning for experts (November 2006)
- Cracking the code (October 2006)
- Getting to know your river (September 2006)
- Who to talk to (August 2006)
- A river of your own (July 2006)
- How we got stuck in (June 2006)
- Meet the Wandle (May 2006)
- Take me to the river (April 2006)
Fly Fishing and Fly Tying
- Review of Darrel Martin’s The Fly Fisher’s Craft: the Art and History (July 2007)
- Review of the Wild Trout Trust’s Wild Trout Survival Handbook (November 2006)
- Review of Andrew Bett’s Barometric Breakthrough (July 2006)
- Trout in the powder: winter fishing in Colorado (March 2006)
- Nelson’s Cocktails fly again (December 2005)
- Review of Charles Rangeley-Wilson’s Chalkstream (November 2005)
- Dry Fly off Wandsworth High Street (February 2004)
Flyfishing.co.uk (previously Fish&Fly)
- 2014: A year of mending urban rivers: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (December 2014)
- Taking the fight to invasive non-native species (May 2014)
- Wet weather in Wincanton (March 2014)
- Spawning time (December 2013)
- Discovering the Dour (October 2013)
- Bashing balsam (September 2013)
- Spinners in south London (August 2013)
- Nostra Signora delle Dolomiti (February 2007 – republished summer 2007 in Grayling News)
- Gartmore goodbye (January 2007)
- Review of Charles Rangeley-Wilson’s The Accidental Angler (November 2006)
- Review of John Gierach’s Still Life with Brook Trout (July 2005)
- Ski-ing for trout: summer fishing in the French Alps (January 2003)
Other
- Jet lag and brook trout (Salmo Trutta, April 2020)
- Wild Ennerdale (Gamefisher: May 2018)
- 5 of the best fishing spots in the UK (The Guardian: April 2018)
- Trout on the Tube (Trout & Salmon, January 2018)
- The top 20 places to fish in the UK (Times Weekend: June 2017)
- Limestone chemistry (Gamefisher: May 2017)
- How to stop invasive species (Trout & Salmon, May 2017)
- 5 top urban fly-fishing tips (Turrall, April 2016)
- Floods in southern England (Redstone Review: May/June 2014)
- Review of Charles Rangeley-Wilson’s Silt Road (Salmo Trutta and the Wandle Piscators’ blog, April 2013)
- Review of James Owen’s Trout (Caught by the River: March 2012)
- It’s alive! (Caught by the River: June 2009)
- Drought (Redstone Review: July 2006)
- In Ireland, hope can be a secret weapon (Redstone Review: November 2005)
- Old flies from Nelson’s River Wandle (Fly Anglers Online: November 2005, with Roy Christie)
