Dry Fly 'Expert'

It is remarkable how two anglers on the same river, on the same day, in the same conditions, can feel differently about the fishi...

This blog does anyway... Last year about this time I reported on the rise forms telling me which fly to try and I ended up using the Poly...

I apologise in advance if you have already come across this simple way to see how you are doing for time.  Fishing in the late afternoon a...

Did I make a mistake last night?  The recent rain has at last raised my mother river, the Derbyshire Wye, to a nice level.  Naturally it had...

...and Comfortable Arrangements! Late to get out last night I wandered downriver still undecided as to where and how I might start the eve...

This is a corner on my local river that others have named "Heartbreak Corner".  It's a ludicrous name.  The fishing here is as...

...now you don't! Okay so I have this back to front.  You can walk by a stretch of water on a sunny day and looking at the river you c...

That might be OK for Dionne Warwick but you can miss out on some astonishing opportunites if you forget yourself and wander by water that at...

... or how to use up a lot of fishing time! This season's Drake festivities, even though a little more perfunctory than is usual, stil...

Here's a little patch of river Heaven.  The stretch here is mainly shaded.  Where the sun can consistently get to the bottom of the rive...

Both can get you swearing under your breath.  The easy pools get taken for granted and you snag up behind you on a grass seed head.  The har...

There are four here! Click to enlarge the image Three for the fish and one for me... Regular Rod

Today was James Ogden Day.  On June 5th 1865 he proved to the Duke of Rutland's Steward (Robert Nesfield) that his artificial floating f...

So many places are missed by anglers walking past them taking the view that they are unfishable.  Sometimes you have to spot the letter box ...

This picture is just a quick snap to illustrate the tell-tale mark of a true wild rainbow trout in the Derbyshire Wye.  It's that candl...

On this theme, which really should become a natural part of any angler's strategy, at the risk of boring you with repetition here is ano...

One advantage of living by the side of a river is that you can get out at all times of night and day to "see what is going on".  T...

You may recall last year, when this blog started, we discussed how to spot the rise forms of fish potentially feeding on spinners.   C...

It may still seem a while away yet but before you know it high summer will be here.   The grass will be taller and seed heads will begin to ...

Here is some of the oldest advice ever given in angling (click it twice to get it full size): See that second tip?  ...

A wonderful day in the sunshine watching Hawthorn flies in their courtship dances and also seeing the trout grabbing every one of them that ...

... call them what you will, but pay attention to these bountiful places.  They are too good to miss! Those of you British anglers, who m...