The Field

Pike recipe

A Victorian pike recipe is an obvious place to start a culinary introduction to this coarse fish. A pike recipe doesn’t have the ease and familiarity of our best trout…

Scottish Land Reform.

Scottish Land Reform is a question that affects those in Scotland and those who enjoy their Scottish sport, grouse shooting, stalking and fishing. It affects my home, Raehills, in the…

Oxbridge blues. Xchanging Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race 2010

The Oxbridge blue is much coveted by sporting types. Just try to avoid having proceedings interrupted by a sporting streaker, and your chances of success should be fine. Winning an…

Hunting bucket list

Here’s a hunting bucket list. Five things that anyone who rides to hounds should endeavour to do before the bucket is inevitably kicked. For those of a more piscatorial bent…

Catching a salmon on your own fly? Definitely on the fishing bucket list.

Have a fishing bucket list? If so add these top five fishing challenges to it. And if not perhaps it is about time to start one. The fishing bucket list…

The Field April 2015 cover

Change your shooting style – how to make difficult birds seem easy; only girls allowed – ladies-only shooting clubs; garden airguns – 10 of the best for pest control; everybody…

Orkeny unseen naked chaity calendar 2015

The Orkney Unseen naked charity calendar 2015 has put the archipelago, just off the north coast of Scotland, in the spotlight. The Orkney inhabitants have laid bare the inner Islander,…

Expert guide to pigeon shooting. Taking aim at the grey grouse.

An expert guide to pigeon shooting is particularly useful when it comes from a team that down the grey grouse in their thousands. But before the advice on telling you…