So I am going away for a beach holiday next week. I have been strictly informed that the rods will not be accompanying me. However with rather nice timing Orvis are now producing podcasts – a podcast is spoken word info that can either be downloaded or streamed directly from their website. It is then…
Conditions?
Not to sure where it all went wrong today – good temps (above 10), the water at a nice height and some olives floating around. Mike, Alex and I fished a city stretch and Mike was the only one who contacted a fish. The water was looking brown rather than the classic green Kelvin tinge…
Attack Delta Force – ATTACK!
So the first wave was sent forth – first was a tributory of the Kelvin – which proved to be fruitless after a few casts. The company of soldiers was then transported to the Kelvin – first a dry and dropper combination which yielded nothing – and then I seen that which only the riff…
Attack Force “Delta Flies”
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 –…
To Whom It May Concern:
Dear Sir, I am writing to complain about the lack of spring time weather we have been experiencing over the last two weeks. I would have hoped that by now there would be plenty of lambs in the fields, trees starting to bud, the sun on my face and more importantly flies having vigorous sex…
No Fishing For Me – Lets Do RSS Instead!
No fishing for me this weekend and probably for none of you guys in Scotland either due to a new little patch of winter kicking its way in. I thought I would take this opportunity to welcome my new readers and to tell you the few ways you can actually get the content of this…
The Kelvin – Safety Advice Re Rats Piss
I have heard about the Kelvin and its dodgy water for a while – mostly idle talk from passer-by’s and dark talk about rats piss from anglers. Well I was browsing around and came across this chaps site who likes to…..get this…..go near the water without a rod in hand and take a boat out on…
Anyone fancy a spot of indoor fishing?
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…
First Trout of the Year – A Rewrite
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…
First Trout of the Year…
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…