ADRIAN LATIMER
Adrian Latimer left university in 1982 not knowing what to do and ended up in insurance broking. He moved to Paris in 1991 and became risk manager for a major multinational in the energy industry. But his passion has always been fishing, since his uncle first taught him how to cast a little Mepps spinner on the lawn as a kid. Business takes him all over the world, and sometimes with a rod in the luggage too. Having fished in Iceland, Montana, Argentina, the Caribbean, Russia and lots of Europe, and written short articles for commercial fishing magazines, he started to write stories purely for his own pleasure in the 1990s. At that stage, friend and real author Bruce Sandison commented that he was in fact writing a book, and the idea took form.
Wishing to do something for conservation, Adrian decided to write the book for the North Atlantic Salmon Fund and worked with Orri Vigfusson until his untimely death (Adrian is a director of NASF France). Three books were self-published, have raised over Euros 21,000 and are now sold out. Adrian has also published four books with Medlar - River at the End of the World, Fire & Ice, Searching for a Rise and Sketches with a Fly Rod. All his royalties are donated to NASF and the Wild Trout Trust.
Another passion since arriving in France has been wine, and Adrian has had the opportunity to travel to wine regions, meet winemakers, taste and buy their wines before they became unaffordable cult icons. After visiting a lot of beautiful and unique wine regions, and tasting and trying to understand their wines, Adrian had amassed a lot of knowledge, history and stories and finally decided to put them to paper with Medlar in 2025 - The Wine in My Glass.
Adrian is now retired and lives outside Paris with his family, enjoying more time to fish and drink wine.
Non-Medlar titles by Adrian Latimer:
A Celebration of Salmon
(as co-editor 2007 - North Atlantic Salmon Fund. Jepsen & Co)
Northern Tails - An Icelandic Fishing Odyssey
2003 (self published)
Paradise Found - Travels with a Fly Rod
2002 (self published)
Wild Fishing in Wild Places
2001 (self published)
Adrian Latimer left university in 1982 not knowing what to do and ended up in insurance broking. He moved to Paris in 1991 and became risk manager for a major multinational in the energy industry. But his passion has always been fishing, since his uncle first taught him how to cast a little Mepps spinner on the lawn as a kid. Business takes him all over the world, and sometimes with a rod in the luggage too. Having fished in Iceland, Montana, Argentina, the Caribbean, Russia and lots of Europe, and written short articles for commercial fishing magazines, he started to write stories purely for his own pleasure in the 1990s. At that stage, friend and real author Bruce Sandison commented that he was in fact writing a book, and the idea took form.
Wishing to do something for conservation, Adrian decided to write the book for the North Atlantic Salmon Fund and worked with Orri Vigfusson until his untimely death (Adrian is a director of NASF France). Three books were self-published, have raised over Euros 21,000 and are now sold out. Adrian has also published four books with Medlar - River at the End of the World, Fire & Ice, Searching for a Rise and Sketches with a Fly Rod. All his royalties are donated to NASF and the Wild Trout Trust.
Another passion since arriving in France has been wine, and Adrian has had the opportunity to travel to wine regions, meet winemakers, taste and buy their wines before they became unaffordable cult icons. After visiting a lot of beautiful and unique wine regions, and tasting and trying to understand their wines, Adrian had amassed a lot of knowledge, history and stories and finally decided to put them to paper with Medlar in 2025 - The Wine in My Glass.
Adrian is now retired and lives outside Paris with his family, enjoying more time to fish and drink wine.
Non-Medlar titles by Adrian Latimer:
A Celebration of Salmon
(as co-editor 2007 - North Atlantic Salmon Fund. Jepsen & Co)
Northern Tails - An Icelandic Fishing Odyssey
2003 (self published)
Paradise Found - Travels with a Fly Rod
2002 (self published)
Wild Fishing in Wild Places
2001 (self published)