The Urban Fly Fisher

Opax has gone all cosmic on us.

March 21st, 2007 | Category: Links | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 21st, 2007 | Category: Links | Comments (9)

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, [...]

March 18th, 2007 | Category: Links | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 16th, 2007 | Category: River Kelvin Fishing | Comments (11)

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 [...]

March 14th, 2007 | Category: Fly Tying | Comments (20)

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 [...]

March 10th, 2007 | Category: Life!, Observations, Top Tips | Comments (8)