The journal

fishing pictures

  • 1st May 2017·Echoes from a river·

    1 May 2017

    The sense of possibility.

    It is still very early into the new season and the River Wylie is still half asleep and not yet disturbed by the clumsy footfall of [...]

  • 1st April 2017·Echoes from a river·

    1 April 2017

    Spring Salmon: Lessons from the Tay

      Spring Salmon fishing can test your mettle, your technique and your circulation. A recent few days on the Tay confirmed all that I knew about [...]

  • 12th March 2017·Echoes from a river·

    12 March 2017

    The Sea Trout of the Rio Grande

    It is dusk and I am trying to perfect the art of standing still. Staying motionless is never easy at the best of times, but with [...]

  • 16th January 2017·Echoes from a river·

    16 January 2017

    Stilt fishing in Sri Lanka. Total simplicity.

    A 10-foot stick with a line on the end. Simple. And at the end of the line is a hook, and that hook has been sharpened [...]

  • 8th November 2016·Echoes from a river·

    8 November 2016

    Wild trout in New Zealand

    There is nowhere on earth quite like New Zealand, and nowhere in my experience as exciting, as dramatic and as compelling a place to fish for [...]