The Fly Line of Many Colors
Opax has gone all cosmic on us.
Opax has gone all cosmic on us.
The April edition of Fish Wild is now online.
I particulary like Mike Connors article on what makes somebody an angler.
What many people completely fail to understand is that the number or size of fish is basically irrelevant to a true angler. Indeed, a true angler will quite happily spend hours trying to catch minnows, or [...]
Tom Jervis over at A View From the Bridge is calling it a day due to ship based work being commercially sensitive . Tom’s writing and most excellent sense of humour has kept me amused for a good few years now.
I will return with a different format at a later date so for the moment, [...]
I decided to stick to my plan for the first day of the season yesterday and head up to a tributary of the Kelvin. My other pals decided to hit the main river full force - I decided a more leisurely few casts with my bamboo rod was more in the spirit of things, a [...]
I think I may have nipped this tying with deer hair problem in the bud. I have been trying to tie proper comparaduns and emergers with deer hair wings for a couple of seasons now but they just don’t seem to come out right - either the wings are too long or not thick enough [...]
This story starts not when I bought my new Sage rod while on holiday in New York but some time before when Mike bought his XP off eBay. He reported a “ticking” noise from the top ferrule which was driving him around the bend. After some advice from other people he waxed all the ferrules [...]
6 days to go before the broonie (thats brown trout to my US cousins)Â season starts.
The weather forecast is for rain for the next few days making sure we will all be gazing miserably at swollen rivers…..