Saying “going down below” is not referring to a trip to Australia, or even a sex act, but rather a trip down The Wash.

What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes.  My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....

May 28th 1914 saw the Welland Trustees take its annual trip "down below" into the waters of The Wash

In 1991 I gave a talk to Long Sutton Friendship Club about the history of wildfowling in the area. Afterwards I was asked if I could meet...

Perhaps the most famous fishing family from the Wash are the Linehams of Fosdyke who have made their lives from the sea as fishermen and...

It is possibly hard to imagine nowadays, but the Wash and  the inland waterways leading from the Wash provided key channels for trade and...

I have enjoyed many evenings at various venues around the Wash from Heacham to Boston, listening to wildfowlers telling their tales....

1st September saw the start of the wildfowling season. It is possibly one of the purest and most challenging forms of field sport still...