Monday, January 13, 2014 at 12:00AM 
The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics. It never ceases to amaze me.
LINK (via: Caught By the River)
Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 12:00AM 
Warren Zevon, Frank Zappa and teenagers engaged in marathon, anaerobic snogging sessions are not necessarily what you’d expect to find in a fishing book (or a book about railways for that matter). However, Jon Berry’s odyssey, around a rail network which once catered for itinerant anglers rather more handsomely than it does now, is full of such colour.
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Caught by the River, fishing books, medlar press in Books Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:01AM 
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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Caught by the River, fish beer, mmmmm beer in Food and Drink Monday, November 29, 2010 at 12:01AM 
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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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 12:00AM 
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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Caught by the River, vintage angling in History, Podcast Monday, August 24, 2009 at 12:01AM 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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