Recent Blogs
How to take your kid fishing
Here are my top dozen or so tips if you want to take your child fishing for the first time. From where to go, through to what to take this short blog will start you on the right track.
What you need to start fishing…
Here’s a basic kit list of what you need if you want to start fishing. It doesn’t cost the earth.
Which is more fun, fishing or minecraft?
I think most parents worry about screen time and many would accuse me of being an idiot for asking a child I was teaching if they preferred fishing or minecraft. It turns out fishing (or more specifically catching) is way more fun.
Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is about the whole experience of fishing, rather than simply about catching or how to catch more. It connects us with one ourselves, one another and the world around us.
The Joy of Kingfishers
Kingfishers are beautiful birds. Did you know instead of nesting in trees, they dig burrows in the bank.
The Perils of Klink and Dink
An examination of how a technique that helps me catch more fish makes me a worse fisherman.
Kids don’t care if they don’t catch
Kids get an unbelievable amount out of a days’ fishing even if they don’t catch.