Choosing Quality Over Quantity: A Sporting Life Well-Lived

Reflecting on half-century of sporting adventure, I am struck by how fortunate I have been to live in a time when these pleasures have been within reach

Mending the Line. Healing the Soul

Hollywood gives fly fishing a 21st century makeover

Crushing clays - there, here and everywhere

Some musings on British fieldsports and traditions seen through a Norweigan lens.

Rebuilding broken confidence: A new era for New Zealand farmers

My global farming adventures continue in New Zealand, as a new Government forms and a new dawn begins for Kiwi farmers. Change is coming, but this time around, farmers will have a seat at the decision-making table.

Is Commercialism REALLY The Cause Of Shooting's Challenges?

After a long career in the shooting 'industry', I take a look at the all the challenges that shooting faces and ask whether it is fair to point the finger of blame at 'commercial' shooting.

Tales of Adventure and Misadventure in the Irish Countryside

Moving from home in the suburbs of Dublin to a run-down Midlands cottage with a tribe of mice at the age of eighteen was an interesting experience

A Question of Balance

How 'efficient' is your fieldsport? Is it all about hope, anticipation, disappointment, enjoyment .... or just about bag size?

A Year of Fishing Memories: Reflecting on 2023

Reflecting upon the past twelve months proves to be far more challenging than expected with many casts into varied waters. Many memories made and shared with friends at the waters edge.

Ditch Beach, Find Farm: Exploring Jamaica's Agricultural Heart

The easiest thing to do on holiday in Jamaica is lie on beaches, drink rum cocktails, and buy overpriced Bob Marley merchandise. But beyond the all-inclusive resorts lies a vibrant rural culture (and Bob Marley was a farmer).

Exploring the Attic: Mousetraps, Memories, and Magazine Archives

If the past is indeed a foreign country, then the farmhouse attic is the portal, and an old magazine is my passport.

Driven Shooting is a Team Sport... or it Should Be

Why do some guns still behave like tweedy Marie Antoinettes?

Predator Control: What the Conservation Industry REALLY Thinks

We are cursed with a conservation industry who are so terrified that they might lose potential income, that they risk facilitating the end of legal predator control. Such an outcome must be resisted