The River Bend publishes guest posts from anglers who know a subject properly: fishery owners and bailiffs, match and specimen anglers, guides and coaches, and the people who make bait and tackle. If you’ve got something readers can use on the bank, we’d like to hear it.
What we publish
Guest posts go in From the Bank, our blog, and the best ones sometimes feed back into the species, technique and location guides. Good fits are a technique you’ve refined over several seasons, a venue write-up from someone who fishes it, a year in the life of one species, a rig or knot tested properly, and the rules explained in plain English.
What makes a post worth publishing
- Write from first-hand experience, and name the venue, the swim, the rig and the weights.
- Use British spelling and terms, and write about British waters.
- Send photos you took yourself, and give us permission to use them.
- Say when a method only works in certain conditions, and which conditions.
- Aim for 1,000 to 2,000 words.
What we won’t publish
We won’t publish posts written to a keyword rather than from experience, product pitches dressed up as advice, or advice that puts fish at risk or ignores the rules on our Rules and Law pages. Topics with no connection to fishing don’t fit either.
Links in guest posts
A post can link to one or two pages that are relevant to what it says, such as your own site or a venue’s. We decide how many links go in, where they sit and how they’re marked. A link has to earn its place in the sentence around it.
Free and sponsored posts
There are two routes.
An editorial guest post is unpaid. You write it, we edit it, and we publish it if it meets the standards above.
A sponsored post is paid for by a business that wants a place on the site. It carries a clear Sponsored label at the top, and every link in it is marked rel=”sponsored” so readers and search engines can see it was paid for. The same editing standards apply to both. If you’re interested in a sponsored post, get in touch and we’ll talk through what’s possible.
We can’t promise rankings, traffic or indexing from any post.
How to pitch
Send your pitch through the contact form with the subject “Guest post”. Include:
- the topic and your angle, in two or three sentences
- a rough outline of the headings
- your angling background, and anything you’ve written before
- whether you’re after an editorial or a sponsored post
We read every pitch. If we want to go ahead, we’ll agree the topic, the length and the deadline before you write a word.
What happens next
We edit for accuracy, UK spelling and house style, and send you the edited version before it goes live. Your name and a short bio go on the post. The full terms for guest posts are in our terms and conditions.