Dry Fly 'Expert'

From Regular Rod (it's a snap of Bakewell by the Derbyshire Wye) and from Henry (he wears his hair shorter nowadays...)    ...

We had some gales a few weeks ago.  Several trees were blown down.  I wish they were all those dreadful aliens, the sycamores!  No, instead ...

My mother river, the Derbyshire Wye, which taught me so much about dry fly fishing, is said to be only 15 miles long.  In that 15 miles it c...

How to never lose your whip finish tools?  Keep them attached to your hands!  That way you can always find them.  1) Hold the thread downw...

You will no doubt recall that your faithful blogger has been know to interfere with Nature sometimes...  You might like to consider two exa...

It's not a perfect organisation but, in the UK, the Wild Trout Trust takes some beating for getting the most out of your donations and m...

An early morning stroll along the local trail (a disused railway line now known as the Monsal Trail) with the camera and tripod led to this ...

That's what your faithful blogger will be doing until next April.  At least as far as trying to catch them that is.  Grayling in Autumn ...

Guess where I was taken fishing today! Not a boast, please be assured, but today was very special and even in the rain it was a deli...

Your faithful blogger loves misty mornings by the river.  Perhaps because the deeper, sub-conscious mind associates them with joyous times a...

The good folk of Buxton are probably oblivious of the way they treat their river, MY river!     Here for a short length the Derbyshi...

This stuff is as good as any product sold specifically for dry fly fishing.  I've been using it for three months now with good result...

Even on the bank, it was impossible to resist this sweeping flow and the power of the rapids.  The camera just had to be set up and an atte...

Here is the Grinner Knot, invented by Dick Walker as a strong knot, which relies on tension instead of shear for its strength.  He ma...

...for joining two lengths of monofilament is the figure-of-eight knot.  A postscript reference was made to it in this post about leader co...

Flash back! Remember this? Henry the Assistant Well here is the result...  King Cups on Ogden Island 25th May 2013 The trout ...

There is a delightful tributary of the Derbyshire Wye.  This is the Lathkill.  A limestone spring-fed river.  When the mother river is brown...

What to expect was a puzzle for the mind before "finding" it this last Monday.  A project to document the Derbyshire Wye along its...

In England, this July has seen us experiencing heat wave conditions and frankly, dry fly fishing in the day has been almost a pain of a ple...

...is a Scotsman with the generosity squeezed out of him! We Yorkshire folk, even those of us living in Derbyshire, hate wasting stuff suc...

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 ...