Podcasts about chalk stream

Series: Below the Meniscus”- The Evolution and Art of Fly Fishing Below the Surface with Nymphs and Wet Flies – A Five Part Series on Hallowed Waters Podcasts Sawyer sums up chalk stream nymphing it up in the traditional fashion: “Nymph fishing, if you are to be successful, is indeed a matter of being careful. It is not just the business of throwing a nymph at all the likely places and hoping the fish will take it. You turn yourself into a hunter and, with all the keenness of a stalker after a stag, figure wits and your eyesight against the facilities and faculties of the wild fish who are on the feed and continually on the lookout for nymphs moving in the water or below”. (NYMPHS AND THE TROUT-FRANK SAWYER) hallowedwatersjournal.com ARPOW Instagram https://www.instagram.com/arpowmusic/?hl=en Apple Music Link https://music.apple.com/us/album/floating/1538035394?i=1538035453 Caleb Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iamcalebdenman/ Jupiter Sound Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jupitersoundllc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hallowedwaters/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hallowedwaters/support

In this episode John Lyon discusses the Chalk Stream Challenge with Hazel Metcalfe and Sarah Smith. Hazel and Sarah created The Chalk Stream Challenge as part of the Watercress and Winterbournes Landscape Partnership Scheme. They discuss how the challenge began, who the challenge is suitable for, some of the activities involved, features of a Chalk Stream and how the activities can be adapted. Find out more about the Chalk Stream Challenge Watercress and Winterbournes provide more background information and resources The Wessex Rivers Trust have many other Chalk Streams in their area Other Wildlife Trusts may be able to help with river dipping expeditions and rivers in their area Series 12 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Educake We believe great teaching happens when teachers get the time to think. Educake helps teachers do more teaching by saving you time setting homework, marking, and analysing results. It's easy to get started and it only take a few clicks to set a quiz that is matched to your exam board. You get immediate insights into strengths and weaknesses, and students get instant feedback. Your first month is free. Try Educake at www.educake.co.uk/geography

Out of the 240 chalk streams globally, 160 are (or were) in England.  For a moment, I thought I heard a splosh and the whip of a fishing rod. But how? Ankle deep in dusty soft leaf litter, several yards down in the waterless bed of a dried up chalk stream, I craned my ears. There it was again. More of a splish, this time, or was it a wish just uttered, by the trees. They swayed in a gust of late summer wind, and I swayed with them.  There was someone there. An old man. He was  sitting bolt upright on the bank just beside me, with crystal clear water lapping at his leather boots. He was smoking a pipe, and holding a fishing rod. And he was swinging it in, right past my nose, the most beautiful fish I'd ever seen. A dark silvery torpedo shaped body with proud fin, hoisted and shimmering, in the setting sun.  A fish! I exclaimed. Aye the old man muttered, from behind his puff of Parson's Pleasure. Just a grayling. It was so beautiful. Where did it come from I said? The wind gusted again in the overhanging trees, and they swayed. Swayed with what this time I knew was a kindly form of long-suffering impatience. Grayling used to live right there, where you are standing now. And many others like them. Mind you, there was a lot more life about when I was around, in those clear flowing waters.  Before he and the fish vanished, I saw its iridescent soul rise up, into one of the trees. And I realised there, it will have to stay, leaf like, waiting with its kin, until the chalk stream returns. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We recorded the natural white noise created by these trees a few months ago in the countryside near Newport in Essex. It was a peaceful place, with a tractor tilling a field in the far distance. The trees grew along the banks of what we later found in bygone days used to be a chalk stream. We think of it as a barometer of human impact, and turn to listen to the wisdom of trees. Chalk streams are rare and fascinating. Find out more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Love Lento? Here's how to support the podcast. 

Maddy Playle is joined by James Stevens and Ireland editor Richard Forristal to review the weekend's racing and take a look back at the key performers from Haydock, Ascot, Kempton and Longchamp.  Before dissecting the weekend's racing, the panel starts by discussing the suspended Gordon Elliott, who will step out of the shadows and begin his redemptive journey on Thursday, September 9.  Rewinding to Saturday, Haydock was certainly not short of quality as Kevin Ryan's Emaraaty Ana got the verdict in a thrilling finish with Starman in the Group 1 Sprint Cup. Artistic Rifles, Golden Flame and Island Brave were also impressive winners at the track.  It was a weekend to remember for William Haggas, as Hamish returned from a 442-day absence to defeat odds-on Hukum in the September Stakes, while Chalk Stream was a class apart in the Lavazza Stakes. Most notably of all, however, was Baaeed's win in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin on Sunday, with Maddy and James discussing what could be next for the unbeaten colt. Before signing off, the panel cast their eye to the Doncaster St Leger meeting and the Irish Champion Stakes to give their best bets. 

Professor Kate Heppell on chalk stream environments and the threats to these beautiful rivers by Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

Affinity Water is launching a new challenge to St.Albans Residents to Get Water Fit. Affinity Water director, Jake Rigg, explains - including how to save, save, save by getting help with that leaky loo Plus, why heavy rain isn't as good for the RIver Ver as you might have thought.

Wade up the Candover Brook in Hampshire in the company of insect expert George McGavin and Zam Baring of the Wessex River Trust. Meet the hidden life of this beautiful waterway from mayflies and leeches to damselflies and bullheads. It's a truly delightful and entertaining adventure in one of Britain's most precious wild habitats. Annabel Ross is your host. Find out more about the Wessex Rivers Trust See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We might have missed 'Duffers Fortnight' this May but we should hopefully be allowed to go out and fish in the not too distant future. Bob Wellard has been fishing or involved in fishing his whole adult life. He has fished worldwide and now looks after the wonderful chalk streams of Hampshire and Wiltshire. This positive podcast should entertain you until you can get your rod and get out there!

Hear all the action from some of the biggest environmental protests that St.Albans - the September 20th Climate Strike and the World Rivers Day Protest in the Park. And Dan Fletcher of St.Albans RSPB wants us to set aside time to Let Nature Sing.

With the start of Plastic Free July, Sandy Gibb of Plastic Free St.Albans explains how you can help St.Albans to become a Plastic Free City, and John Pritchard of the Ver Valley Society explains why it’s time to get tough on water.

The plans to revive stretches of the internationally important River Ver have not received universal welcome. In this show we hear from Keith Reynolds, Chair of the Cottonmill and Nunnery Allotment Association about what allotment holders have to loose and why they're still unhappy.

Charles Jardine is one of the world's great experts; his breadth of knowledge ranges from the chalk streams of England to the four corners of the United States. Don't miss his insightful and well-informed commentary on the rise of angling tradition, the 'rules' Americans inherited from the UK, and modern-day uses for some pretty old fly fishing technology.