Fallon's Angler

19/06/2024

Issue 34 is dropping into letterboxes and onto doormats and seems to be being well received.

There is the usual blend of angling and writing styles, themed around the gloriously long days of summer.

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17/06/2024

And so a new coarse fishing season (on the rivers at least) has begun.

Where have people been fishing and what have they been catching?

06/06/2024

Issue 34 has gone to press and is available for pre-order.

'The Longest Day' - a celebration of the solstice and those hazy summer days that surround it. Holidays, adventure and a gentle drift.

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14/05/2024

We won't spoil the forthcoming FA review, but given that Magic Cat won the Small Press of the Year Award at last night's British Book Awards - and we all know how well Will Millard weaves words - this is a safe bet....

08/05/2024

'At the birth of my children, I was correct and received a welcome pat on the back when the midwife confirmed what I already knew. Powers. Keep them hidden. Don't draw attention to yourself.'

Boo Gilbraith is a bona fide super-hero. But he doesn't like to talk about it....

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25/04/2024

'It can still torment me, this endlessly fascinating hide-and-seek played around and about water, but its a sweet torment that always brings us back for more.'

Malachy Tallack shares his conversations with novelist and angling writer WD Wetherell.

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20/04/2024

'It is with some sadness I write to tell you I have reached the unavoidable conclusion that our ways must part.'

Break-ups are never easy but can be necessary if someone's failings cost us a big trout, as Michelle Werrett discovers.

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17/04/2024

'Like a misfiring football striker who suddenly goes on a goal-scoring glut, you break some supernatural seal, and it all starts to come with extraordinary ease.'

A house-move prompts Will Millard to dust off his late grandfather's sea-fishing kit and head to the shore...

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15/04/2024

Our film, 'Mr Green's Rod', starring Chris Yates and made by Nick Fallowfield-Cooper has now had over 264,000 views on our YouTube channel.

The story behind the rod (and the film) was penned by Chris across Issues 15 and 16 - both of which remain available, although numbers are dwindling. Should anyone want to purchase either copy, they can do so on the links below;

Issue 15 - https://fallonsangler.net/product/fallons-angler-issue-15/

Issue 16 - https://fallonsangler.net/product/fallons-angler-issue-16/

The film (with a soundtack by Chris and Will Yates) can be viewed here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnAHBFFbvLU

11/04/2024

'Arriving at the river he spots a tiger rock-hopping across the water to avoid getting its paws wet, but then the great cat slips and falls in.'

John Langridge compares two angling time machines.

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08/04/2024

'It carries us on our quest for the Holy Grail of a giant, uncaught pike, hastily planned over Friday night's beer and camaraderie's folly.'

Garrett Fallon is tortured by a pike that swims through his subconcious...

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03/04/2024

'Functionality is infinitely more important to me than representation. Which is just as well, because some of my efforts would stretch the imagination of Heath Robinson.'

Kevin Parr discovers that he unknowingly owns the perfect rod for the job.

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30/03/2024

'I've always felt blessed that I could stand in my garden and hear their song drifting over the fields and meadows...'

There's not a sound so evocative as the haunting cry of the curlew - and spring trout-fishing isn't quite the same without it, says Graham Vasey.

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26/03/2024

'Something plunged downstream and kept low to the riverbed, slowing as it went but not stopping...'

It's trying hard to feel like spring, but for Issue 33 Chris Yates shares some more extracts from his winter diary.

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23/03/2024

'Determined to catch a 20 for BB, I took the reel to a local water where I was confident I could land one.'

Mark Walsingham uses a pair of reels with a unique heritage.

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18/03/2024

Issue 33 is arriving with subscribers and the feedback so far is really positive. Thank you, as always, for your support.

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16/03/2024

13/03/2024

'On the bank of the River Test, Ollie offered me a reminder that there is no right or wrong way to fish.'

Deputy editor Kevin Parr introduces us to Issue 33 of Fallon's Angler https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/03/fallons-angler-tools-of-the-trade/

04/03/2024

Issue 33 has gone to press and is available for pre-order.

For this issue, we explore the essential and expendable tools of the trade. Those items that we can't do without, whether functional or dysfunctional.

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14/02/2024

'On the third morning, the thermometer packed up. My new-fangled toy had had enough, and were it not for a small shoal of chub I found on a backwater, so might I.'

How cold is too cold? Kevin Parr discovers that there genuinely is, always a chance.

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12/02/2024

A beauty 🐊 of a pike.

Twas a tough old week last week. One of those that has you thinking about open horizons by the Wednesday, and big hills and bigger water come the Friday. So when Saturday morning arrived with a better forecast than expected, myself and the kids decided to get the tent and pike rods out of the shed, and make the journey up to the lake in the mountains.

It hasn’t fished too well up there since the new year - and we were starting late in the day. Well, we were starting even later after we had a milk malfunction, with two loose pints in the van, and then we lost a pair of wellies. Then, on arrival, someone was in the swim we’d hoped to fish - so it was off to an all-new part of the lake - and that was when I realised I’d left a load of my fishing gear at home too.

It didn’t really matter - we were where we were supposed to be. I had just enough to cobble together a cast and we had everything we needed to just relax and play some games among the trees. What I definitely was not expecting though, in our very short, very disorganised, session, was the rod to melt off with this very fine fish attached in very shallow water.

It was a bit chaotic getting the powerful old girl in the net - with my daughter having to carry over a net bigger than her, to land a barely hooked fish as long as my son. But after a few ‘very nearly lost it moments’ she finally went in.

Made up with that pike - and despite their faces, the kids were too - it was just that by the time we got to the photo bit they already wanted me to go back to pretending to be a dog.

Which is fair enough, I guess.

Woof. Woof.

Merthyr Tydfil Angling Alliance

12/02/2024

Ben Jailler writes as only he can, although dog whispering is not one of his finer skills.....

Read 'Horngry, horngry Geo' (the title will make perfect sense, we promise) in Issue 32 - https://fallonsangler.net/shop/