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 have a confession to make - I received this DVD ages ago but due to one thing and another I never watched it until now. That’s the problem when you get stuff to review you can’t just hang around you have got to do it. When I buy a fishing DVD or movie I [...]

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These little clippers were great - electric blue, small (ish) they fitted on my lanyard perfectly and cut through mono very easily - I tried them with 20lb mono and they cut through it with ease. I would expect so to for £7.
I wanted a new pair of nippers as my old ones ……ach OK [...]

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I love getting sent books by authors; it gives me a warm fuzzy glow inside that someone actually might value what I say about their writings. Writers sending bloggers books to review is quite a new thing and I have got to admit it is a perk I quite like. However I have been dreading [...]

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Its all gone Kiwi Camo
The DVD is described as
Prepare yourself for 75 minutes of pure fly fishing insanity with Trout Bum Diaries Vol 2: Kiwi Camo. In this installment, the usual suspects of the Angling Exploration Group take you on a hair-curling 4 month expedition into New Zealand’s shadowland as they [...]

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All in all it was a strange weekend of fishing. A mixture of dizzying heights and disastrous lows leaving me with a day off work and a limp - oh I have torn my breathable waders in a few places as well.
The Story
Strangely the plan for both days was to hit the White Cart, but [...]

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How do you review a book that you like? I know what I don’t like in a fly fishing book these days- basic how to books, books that are stating the obvious, books on fishing that have very little actual fishing in them - do what so you look for in a book on fly [...]

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