Game
Contains prose to poetry to polemic, experiences, tales both fictional and non-fictional, "how to"s, "how not to"s and related outpourings from the Work Party. These are very broadly classified. As the site grows, we may reclassify them further. Or we may not.
Listed below are all the articles about game fishing.
GameMill Brook
- by Phil on 09/06/10Phil's cooler, smarter sibling, Swythyn Troutbeck, has sent in a lovely new piece reflecting on the slower pace of angling on a French mill stream. Dream on, Dear Reader...............
GameIn Spring a Young Man's Fancy Lightly Turns...
- by Michael on 12/03/10St. Patrick's Day approaches, the gorse begins to bloom and once again our thoughts turn from roach and perch to fair and fabled fario. In this first new article on Piscatoribus Sacrum, Michael patiently anticipates the return of Spring and the chance to fish for brown trout.
GameA Pleb, and a Wild Brown Trout
- by Danny on 03/09/09(published previously on PurePiscator)
A relative novice at fly-fishing - I took it up last year - I had, until this May, caught a mixture of stocked rainbow and brown trout, and one grayling. The grayling was caught last year from The London Angling Association's stretch of the Avon just below Salisbury. It had taken some sort of gold-headed nymph bumped repeatedly against its snout until, rather resignedly, it decided to put me out of my misery and become my first wild fish caught on the fly.
GameThe Big Fight at Lower Duck Island
- by Doug on 23/12/07(published previously on PurePiscator)
In a flash I was concentrating again. There really is something addictive about this wandering style of angling that awakens the subconscious hunting instinct...there it goes again, what a stealthy rise this fish is making. Certainly not the splashy, porpoise-like, rise of the bottom dwelling grayling nor the urgent, jumpy rise of the small trout indigenous to this river...
- A wonderful, riverside tale from Doug
