The Urban Fly Fisher

Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yes, flies and imitations. Well another three handy flies to have at this time of year also cover a variety of insects - and two of them are not dry flies they are emergers.
Remember in part one we were talking about the Large Dark Olive – well these [...]

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I am the first one to admit I am a bit of a pussy don’t like the cold and am more inclined to turn to the fly tying vice instead of the riverbank when there is a howling gale outside. However, I reckon I would take the cold and howling gale instead of doing a [...]

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I decided to rewrite this post after a comment that Tom Chandler left on my last post he stated:
Nice fish, though you really need to work on your posts a bit.
Admitting that the fish pretty much hooked itself is a violation of the Fly Fishermen’s Writer’s Code, which stipulates that every fish comes as a [...]

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Yea, so it was caught on a woolly bugger; however it was snowing intermittently all day and the chances of catching anything on a dry fly was utterly remote. Oh sure, I could have used nymphs but I wanted to see what would grab one of my new olive streamers – it turned out this [...]

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Enormous Grayling – that is what I was told. I have been putting off going “proper” grayling fishing for a while now. Not because I do not like Grayling – I just don’t like fishing for them. I can think of better things to do with my Saturdays than standing waist deep in freezing cold [...]

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Its not just because Orvis have pretty amazing customer service, its not because they make great quality products, it’s the fact they see the wider issues that affect anglers and are willing to put their money where their mouths are. I don’t see any of the other big name fly fishing manufacturers coming up with [...]

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It’s happened, just in the way the rivers rise high in the winter and then low in the summer my thoughts are turning from Pike back to Trout. I am not saying I will be forgetting Pike for the summer - quite the opposite actually I am actually quite looking forward to taking a Pike [...]

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