Category Archives: Trouty things

What I should be doing

is investigating a story that Louise sent me about the International Society of Arctic Char fanatics, and their struggles against some horrible development in Scotland. Better yet, I could be fishing for char (röding) because despite living for years in … Continue reading

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Fishing notes

No, not one, thanks for asking. A few pulls, one of which I really should have turned into a trout, but my fingers were numb and shaky after fishing through a hailstorm without gloves. Even on a day with a … Continue reading Continue reading

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Fishing for real men

The subspecies of angler bloviatus montanus might be described from this specimen, writing under the pen-name “Tamarack” in Mary Orvis Marbury’s book Favourite Flies and the their histories, first published in 1892: During a residence of ten years in Montana, … Continue reading

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Timewasting notes

A new hazard of technology: Roz Kaveney complains that every time she asks in a department store for a black beret, she is sent to the electronics department. A nice touch from Gideon Rachman’s FT blog: As we were assembling, … Continue reading

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notes from fishing porn and elsewhere

Last summer my friend Christer pressed on me a book of fishing porn by Gunnar Westrin, which contains some wonderful photographs, though I can’t find any on his web site. I learnt from it some interesting things about grayling; also … Continue reading Continue reading

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Friday pike blogging

I was down on the river yesterday afternoon and wandered further down than I have ever gone before, through a field of "setaside", which means that the EU pays farmers to leave it wholly wild. The result is mostly nettles, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Coarse fishing in Scandinavia

There’s a short story below the fold that I think I might flog somewhere but everything I write looks like crap to me at the moment, as if my heart had turned to pumice stone. Continue reading

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heroic defeat

If I’m unusually stupid tomorrow, it’s because I finally cracked this afternoon and drove up to Grafham to try and catch some trout. No one knew where they were, since there had been winds of 50mph over the weekend (it … Continue reading Continue reading

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this little river

has been electrofished. I know it’s small, but there are at least three trout over four pounds living wild in there, and one, I’m told, over five. Yet there are places you can cross it in Wellington boots, and nowhere, … Continue reading Continue reading

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sex in space

The FWB has circumvented a pet ban by buying an aquarium, and is now researching which fish she should stock it with. Google led her to the Japanese ricefish, or Medaka, the only species of vertebrate attested to have had … Continue reading Continue reading

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