Dry Fly 'Expert'

It's all the same to Henry...  A few hours of reconnaissance in Duck Holds Wood saw your faithful blogger making some photographs on f...

A little wander out today with Henry by the local river and we came across a couple of friendly anglers who were making the most of the last...

AND a Happy New Year too!!! Regular Rod

...thousand words? In April 2011 we considered a spot on the local river, the Derbyshire Wye, which had fish rising all over it at 05:33 ...

Tell me to stop if you don't like these occasional "Picture Posts". Here is another view of the lovely Ogden Island that...

The PPS (Poly Prop Sherry) An effective fake of the Blue Winged Olive's Spinner the Sherry Spinner ·       Easy and quick to tie ...

Now you are quite likely to be tying flies in the long dark evenings, you might like to see a small selection of hooks that are fast becomin...

Four years ago, Warren and Jan cleared the way to let anglers fish this island in the Derbyshire Wye by building a nice bridge out of a long...

Here is a lovely place to drift a bushy fly down in the summer.  After you catch the resident whopper, under that tangle just below the ...

It really is a piece of Heaven through that gate.  One of the most lovely parts of my local river, packed with trout and grayling that th...

Reconnaissance is a vital part of any angler's route to success and enjoyment.  Even more so for the dry fly angler.  Taking a camera al...

a Good Morning to you both... There was a bit of a Compleat (Complete) Angler moment this morning whilst out with Henry to practise some r...

...some of you may recall that a vow was made to carry a bigger camera this season.  Little was it realised at the time how this was going t...

It was the annual get together of the Peacock Fly Fishing Club last night and we were in for a special treat... Warren, the head river ke...

Not so delightful if you were ever as slow as I was this evening in working out what on Earth the fish had suddenly turned their attention...

Here, between the trailing dead twigs and the overhanging sawn off branch, is "the Spot" where the fly has to fit inside, land gen...