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…
Grayling…in the cold, wind, occasional snow flurry…
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…
Orvis – Why I Like Em’
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…
The Tide Turns…
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…
How to Clean your Fly Line
I decided to bite the bullet and clean my fly lines. Cleaning your fly lines is probably one of the most satisfying things you can do to improve your casting and the “floatability” of your line. I have read you are supposed to clean your line after every other trip using special products however I…
First Day of Trout Season = Pike Fishing
So I decided that as the Pike seemed to be switched on to miss out on the usual first day of the trout season shenanigans and head out again after Pike. The reasoning was that: We never do well on the first day of the season anyway (the first couple of weeks actually) It was…