Dry Fly 'Expert'

Last year's failure is now just a distant memory! A nice Grilse from the Dess Fishings' Lower March Pool on Scotland's magn...

Now we can once more get back to proper dry fly fishing with proper sized flies instead of the budgerigars and canaries we deployed during t...

Fly fishing blogger Irene of 1WomanFlyFishing has organised a special event on June 30th just for women at Press Manor Fishery in the Peak ...

 This is one very effective fly if used properly At last the summer really is here.  Tonight was my first session with the Sherry...

The Derbyshire Wye like every other river in England is abused.  However, the Wye is a miraculous river and it heals itself as it flows from...

....summer that is. Last night was a proper summer's evening with flies all around and the fish putting on weight by the second.  I wa...

...it's that time of year again!  This is when your faithful correspondent attempts to catch a brown trout, using a rod and reel made by...

That little feeder stream right in the middle of the picture ought to be a nursery for juvenile trout but all I've ever seen under th...

Hawthorn(e) Fly We are surely kidding ourselves if we imagine we can make flies that are exact replicas of the real flies the fish are e...

No fishing on Saturday, instead advantage of the sunshine was grabbed with a slog down river laden with apparatus and accompanied by the mos...

Here we go... Dandelions (Dents de Lion = Lion's Teeth) The summer is coming at last and colours are now intensifying wheresoever ...

A cool wind and thick cloud made the day quite unsuitable for Bibio marci today but "Wishful Thinking" had me start with a Charle...

A river is a dynamic thing if it is allowed to be so.  Where does the gravel come from?  It comes from erosion of the banks.  Uninhibited er...

So I promised you a look at the snap I made yesterday whilst Henry was patiently waiting.  That was a foolish thing to do.  I love fil...

One month ago today we had a look at a new bit of land that was beginning to appear.  It looked like this...   That little group of F...