Where do trout lie? If you want to catch a trout it helps to know where they are. Fish the right water and maximise your chances
Fishing
Wild fishing: never less than unforgettable
Where to get your wild fishing fix There are countless places where you can encounter wild fishing. However, it is essential to consider health and safety, permissions and legalities beforehand.…
Top fishing schools
It might be tempting to think that fishing is one of those things you can pick up as you go along and that one just has to get one’s line…
Loch fishing: how to make the most out of Scotland’s still waters
Mungo Ingleby champions the lure of loch fishing, making the most out of Scotland’s still waters brimming with wild trout. If you can understand how a fish targets a fly,…
Top 10 trout rivers
Charles Rangeley-Wilson picks his top 10 fly-fishing spots accessible to all. It's open to debate, preferably after a day on a chalkstream.
The Field’s Ultimate Fishing Guide for 2024
There is little doubt that the UK offers some of the most fascinating fishing in the most wonderful of settings, if you know where to look. Getting away from life’s…
Late season salmon fishing: where best to go and what fly to use
September can be a glorious month for salmon fishing. After weeks of potentially dry and dusty weather, reliable rains sweep in from the west and, finally, our rivers will again…
Fishing the Flow Country
The Lowlands beyond the Highlands’ is an often used description of Caithness. But while the ‘Kingdom of the Cats’, which is surrounded by the mountains of Sutherland to the south…
Our wild fish future
One of the great benefits of my position as fishing consultant for the BBC 2 series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is that I get to spend much of the…
Match the Hatch – is it necessary?
Despite the hype from tackle merchants, most artificial flies only ever catch humans. Trout, it seems, don’t share our obsession with ‘match the hatch’. Trout fishing is a battle of…