The Urban Fly Fisher

My fishing buddy bought one of these reels a few weeks ago - needless to say he wishes he had not bothered. I love the tag on the Loop Page “Be tough on your Evotec CLWC. It will love it”

Purchased one of these recently. I’ve had six sea trout with it, but no thanks to [...]

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I loathe the saying “tight lines” - I can remember when people started using it (or possibly when I first noticed it) and I try and avoid it as much as possible. To me it just seems twee or maybe just a wee bit cheesy. Somehow it always makes me feel slightly uncomfortable - a bit [...]

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There are two very real reasons why you do not see many pictures of me on my blog. Firstly not many of my pals carry cameras and the ones that do always forget to charge them and secondly I always end up looking like a gimp.

I rest my case.
Still, it is better than a dead [...]

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Look at em’, all standing to attention like soldiers, like a trained fighting force - the elite! Like the SAS - all ready to attack the rivers full force. Just waiting for their orders although in this case it will be an order to land gently possibly several feet away from a rising trout - [...]

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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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So I hit on something that I have never actually witnessed before - wild toad sex. When I started fishing the river I noticed something swimming down the river towards me - it was a toad, happily swimming along. I added it to my memory as just one of those quirky things you see on [...]

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