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Episode 11, 30th December 2009
My we've had a busy week. It's the episode with the hindstalking in Galloway, the Boxing Day meet with the Surrey & Old Burstow, another Abbey Burton shooting masterclass, and the scandal of the people who are stealing dogs, some of them for ransom, including Shooting Times news editor Selena Masson's cocker spaniel and our own faloncry contributor Roy Lupton's German shepherd. It also has all the best bits from 2009 and the all-important blooper reel.
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Episode 10, 16th December 2009
Let's get festive. This half-hour Fieldsports Britain programme has got: * Stuck for a gift for the shooter in your life? We have dozens of Christmas prezzie ideas. * How did a 16-year-old girl from Kent catch a world record catfish. We ask her. * Looking for sport in South-West Scotland? We're on the hill shooting feral goats in Galloway * We try a stalking technique that Robin Hood would recognise: Brits go bow hunting both warthog and water melons. * Olympic shooting hopeful Abbey Burton has her own shooting school in Somerset . She teaches great technique when you're waiting for those pheasants to come over you * We try a Mitsubishi Shogun 4x4 in the rough stuff to show what the shooter and angler should look for in a car It's time to crack out the cooking sherry, and glug down a glass or two while you enjoy the show. It's unbeatable telly.
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Episode 9, 2nd December 2009
Which was bigger - the 851lb bluefin tuna caught off Scarborough in 1933 or the 852lb bluefin caught in 1949? According to the Tunny Club it was the 851lber. Our half-hour Fieldsports Britain programme explain how that works, plus we tell the story of how the mighties of the day - David Niven, Errol Flynn, Lord Rothschild - came to catch massive tunny off the east coast of Yorkshire, and how those days are back off Donegal. That's not all: * We're trying to shoot ten species in a single day in the Borders * We showing the top Christmas presents for both coarse anglers and flyfishers * We're learning how to shoot walked-up game at the West London Shooting School (we need the lessons) * And our expert falconer Roy Lupton shows how he makes jesses for his goshawks
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Episode 8, 18th November 2009
Could you ask for better sport? The Lakeland fells covered in brick red bracken with a bright blue sky atop, it's time to go fellhunting with the Coniston Foxhounds. Incredibly, this was just a week before the Cumbria floods. And while we're there, we go out after snipe and duck on the Morecambe sands with the Grange Wildfowlers and visit William Wordsworth's favourite pike fishing lake, Rydal Water. Then we're back down to the South of England on a driven pheasant day in Kent. It's all in our Fieldsports Britain programme, out now.
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Episode 7, 4th November 2009
Just when everything is going so well, a dogwalker comes and spooks your deer, your pigeons, pheasants, even your salmon. Isn't it always the case? Well, on this occasion the dogwalker started shouting abuse at the stalker - and Fieldsports Channel has the camera on them when they did. That's not all. We're also enjoying: Country house glory: we're at the opening meet of the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray at Petworth Park in Sussex. Young shots: we're out after pheasants with schoolkids. First fish: when viewer Melissa Bowden said she had never caught a trout before, we packed her off to a trout farm to show what fun it can be. And just where do all those shot shells go? We meet the man who has worked out how to recycle shotgun cartridges - millions of them - in a machine which doesn't mind when they go bang. Fieldsports Britain - not just better than anything on telly tonight - we're like finding foie gras in a nut roast.
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Episode 6, 21st October 2009
This poor eagle is in the hands of Kent falconer and Fieldsports Channel falconry expert Roy Lupton. It's a poor eagle because it was soon to be dead, following a catalogue of errors made by the RSPCA, DEFRA and the RSPB. We tell its story, including horrifying footage of the conditions the RSPCA made the bird endure at one of its 'animal rescue' centres. But this half-hour Fieldsports Britain show is not all doom and gloom! This week, we are: Rabbiting with ferrets and a lurcher with Shooting Times expert Simon Whitehead Shooting pheasants with students on the Plumpton College gamekeeping course Learning how to shoot woodcock with the experts at West London Shooting School Catching colossal carp at a world championship carp match Pour yourself a drink, gather round the flickering screen and watch this week's half-hour show. Bet we're the best thing on the web or the telly tonight!
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Episode 5, 7th October 2009
See deerstalking as it should be done - the royal way. The latest Fieldsports Britain half-hour programme features the start of the deer rut at Balmoral last week with hillstalkers out to make the most of it. That's not all: " See the magical arrival of the grey geese at Loch Leven with top goose guide Des Cochrane, happening right now; " Join us as we go snipe shooting with John Vaughan on the Great Bog of Tregaron in Wales; " And see the monsters of the deep freeze, as revealed by Tay salmon fisherman Neil McGown. We launched on the Glorious 12th August and we've got 15,000 viewers here, on our podcast site and on our own website already! Pour yourself a whisky and be one of them.
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Episode 4, 23rd September 2009
Pour yourself a glass, sit down for half an hour and click on to the new Fieldsports Britain programme that's just out. We have crammed falconry, deerstalking, chalkstream flyfishing and everything you need for the pheasant opening day into 30 minutes. You can watch it - no cost - online any time you want. Just visit www.fieldsportschannel.tv . And you will see: How to shoot high pheasants: expert Alan Rose of the West London Shooting School gives his tips and shows the commonest errors Fox calling: with the pheasant opening day around the corner, gamekeepers are out after foxes and SportingRifle expert Mike Powell is no exception Partridges with goshawks: Roy Lupton takes his birds into the field to see what they will get. Creeping up on roebuck in Scotland: were out with top deerstalker Lachie Smith. Its that daddy-longlegs time of year: if you like flyfishing you have to see this new pattern daddy in use on the River Anton, a Hampshire chalkstream White pheasants: Canal Game Farm is producing them for estates all over the country Nothing on telly tonight? Go on - watch our programme online. Its a lot more real than Heartbeat.
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Episode 3, 9th September 2009
It's our best Fieldsports Britain programme yet. We've packed foxhunting (er... trailhunting), shooting, trout on the fly, falconry and deerstalking into 30 minutes. You will see: High-octane sport rabbiting from a quadbike: Ashley Vellacott farms sheep and beefstock in the West Country and the rabbits are doing an awful lot of damage. TV presenter Philip Ghazala is in his first season as master of the West Somerset Hunt. He's out autumn hunting and it's all within the law. The Prince of Wales's trout: the Duchy of Cornwall offers some of the best value fishing and shooting in England. We're out on Dartmoor's River Dart with fishing guide Mike Maslin of Moor Fishing. Tarzan's home turned out to be Castle Greystoke. There's a real Greystoke Castle and it's at the centre of a perfect sporting estate in Cumbria. We're off to visit its gamekeeper and deerstalker, Steve Pymm. At home with the goshawks: our funny fluffballs are turning into mini velociraptors. 1 September was the opening of the partridge season - both redlegs and greys. Shoots are already getting underway all over the UK. We prepare you for the season with top tips from instructor Alan Rose of West London Shooting School as well as the tale of the farmer who is releasing grey partridges on to his land, keepering them and not even shooting them. Plus, how to catch eels with a sack and a load of sheep guts.
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Episode 2, 26th August 2009
Back in March The Sunday Times showed pictures of a once-in-a-decade British deer - a white roebuck. The newspaper reported that foreign hunters were lining up to pay £1,000s to have the opportunity to stalk this deer. Find out what happened to this deer on the 30-minute webTV programme Fieldsports Britain. And that's not all. We are: Going grouse shooting in Scotland the way it should be done - with a piper Shooting pigeons over stubble in Kent with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist Trapping salmon on the River Frome in Dorset Stalking roebuck in Yorkshire with Sporting Rifle editor Peter Carr Following two goshawks from egg to hunt Getting ready for the pheasant season with Canal Game Farm
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Episode 1, 12th August 2009
What does the grouseshooting season hold in store in Scotland? Can we catch a brownie, a sea trout, a salmon and a sea bass on the fly in one day in Devon? How do squeak in a roebuck in Kent? And whats a cheetah like at catching rabbits in Essex? These are just some of the items in this weeks Fieldsports Britain, our new flagship half-hour magazine TV programme.
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Crufts 2009 special
Crufts - it is the greatest dogshow on earth and Sunday 14th March 2009 is gundog day. All over the country, gundog owners are preparing to take their best friends to the NEC at Birmingham. All of them are aiming to end the day in the big hall on the lefthand side - the main show ring. Many are starting their day in the righthand hall, where you will find the BASC gundog ring. Here's what it takes to get your dog to that level - and what goes into organising the day.
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