So I had a nice evening session down at a different river the other night and very fine it was too. It was also damned frustrating as I just couldn’t seem to keep a fish on……I was standing below around 3 fish who were all taking tiny flies…..if you look at this photo here…they were…
Those slow stretches!
A couple of weeks ago I took a walk along the Kelvin to scout out some of the slow deep stretches. The water was pretty murky and there was the inevitable cars and trolleys.. After my success of catch trout on dry flies on these stretches like those I think I will be having another…
Glenn Yoshimoto’s Zen Fly Fishing
Glenn Yoshimoto’s Zen Fly Fishing Lovely site about fly fishing for Perch. Its all about the Zen apparently!
Wonky Fish Photees!!
You may have noticed recently that I have not been posting pictures of fish very much. That is because trying to take a good photee of a trout whilst holding a rod in one hand, being thigh deep in water is damn hard. Add the fact that the fish rarely smiles and sits still for…
Quote…..which pretty well sums it up!!
A. K. Best: “The Fishing was good, it was the catching that was bad.”
Windy Day!
So for a little stress relief I went down to my little tributary for a couple of hours. It was at a good height but was a little cloudy. It was very windy so I was kind adaft using my 3wt but when I did manage to get a cast everything was fine. I did…
Squirrel Fishing
Squirrel Fishing Dawsholm park has a good head of Squirrels…maybe I should try this on those dog days!!
THE (ARISING OF THE) KLINKHAMER SPECIAL, by Hans van Klinken
THE (ARISING OF THE) KLINKHAMER SPECIAL, by Hans van Klinken Hans van Klinken talking about the arising of the Klinkhamer special.
Sorting out tackle!
So the last time I went to a little stream I used my little 3 wt that I had not used before. One of the first things that I noticed was that the sections kept coming apart. It is a little custom made rod so all I had to do was put a little wax…
Ladies in red seek biggest fish
An interesting read. May 24 2005 Moc Morgan, Western Mail IT IS accepted that women are very, very good at catching big fish. So much so that some male anglers have tried hard to work out a reason for it. Read the full article