Green Jack Brewery Mahseer IPA

When you think of a mahseer, images of baking heat, shimmering sunlight glistening off silvery rivers and harsh, rocky river banks flow mesmerically through the mind.

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A Billiard Ball Runs Through It - Norman Maclean on Billiards

Wait, what?

Thanks to Neil Sentance for drawing our attention to this fantastic piece of writing by Norman Maclean on the Lapham’s Quarterly website. Norman will be known to most of our readers, I’m sure, as the author of ‘A River Runs Through It’ (‘In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing’). Here, he talks of his other passion, billiards.

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A Compleat Compendium of Fact, Folklore, Fun and Fancy on the Gentle Art of Angling

A rare BBC radio recording from February 1970, featuring, among others, angling greats Fred J Taylor and Clive Gammon, folk song from Brett Stevens and even an angling quiz, presented by one of the greatest natural history writers and broadcasters, the late Eric Simms.

Listen to it as a podcast HERE and view the original LP artwork in the Caught by the River gallery HERE.

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Big River Man - Martin Strel aka The Fish Man

Martin Strel is not an athlete. He is a fifty-plus, big bellied Slovenian man who drives whilst drunk and eats horse burgers. He's also an endurance swimmer, conquering the worlds largest rivers, the Mississippi, the Danube and the Yangtze to draw attention to environmental issues.

The soon to be released documentary Big River Man chronicles Strel's 66 day swim up the entire Amazon.

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The End of the Line

The End of the Line is the Inconvenient Truth of our oceans. ‘The End of the Line‘ is not against fishing. It is not against eating fish. But it is for a responsible attitude towards the oceans”.

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Parlez Vous Brownlining?

They’ve got this thing where they fish in city centre canals, park ponds and all over the city. It’s illegal and in the film they compare it – with brilliant French pretension – to graffiti artists, but still. You get the picture. It’s in French but I know you fish-o-philes get excited by anyone with a rod.

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