What I’ve written elsewhere
Since 2003, I’ve 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
- Fish where you live (Spring 2021)
- Limestone chemistry (Spring 2020)
- Catching wild trout: a skill and a privilege (interview with 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)
