Yes, this is still a flyfishing blog but I’ve not done any fishing so until I do, all I can do us tell you about other shit I’ve been up to. A friend I’ve not seen for some considerable time decided to organise a walking mission for the last Sunday in January, and [...]
Day off work today, had mulled over idea of going fishing somewhere but the weather started to turn and I lost enthusiasm so decided to partake in one of my other hobbies. I’m not a “‘plane spotter”. I’m an aviation enthusiast! Just so we’re all clear on this… It was sporadically snowing so visibility wasn’t too good [...]
Not really fishing weather at the moment but I needed to get out and enjoy a bit of the great outdoors (and walk off last night’s curry) so I did a moderate walk in the Dales. Helps keep me sane and also try clear 20+ years worth of crap off my lungs seeing as [...]
Myself and Stu have invested considerable time, effort and money over the festive season to move the site over to new hosting and into a format where all content is managed via WordPress. This means I no longer have to submit new content for the ‘main site’ to Stu for uploading into HTML [...]
Despite a roiling internal array, from the previous night’s curry and booze, I managed 2 hours on my club stretch of the Wharfe this Saturday. The river was lower than I anticipated and was running quite clear.
Browsing the forums at http://www.flyforums.co.uk I notice that there is once again a trout fishing lake at Lindholme. More information available at the official website for Lindholme http://www.lindholmelakes.co.uk/lakes/
…tonight I tied the Klinks! . They ain’t perfect, consistency is a dirty word in my dictionary, clearly but I know they will catch fish so they’ll do. All are on Partridge size 14 Oliver Edwards nymph emerger hooks which seem ideal for Klinkhammers. That’s a grand total of 10 flies over 2 nights, it’s a long [...]
…when I sometimes tie a few flies to fend of the unending misery that is winter. Winter is coming. Valar Morghulis! Anyway, I tied up some GRHEs and a couple of pink bead head flies. All have tungsten beads and are primarily aimed at catching grayling. I used size 16 Drennan Wet Fly Supreme for the [...]
Having had a day out with guide Steve Rhodes the previous weekend, I was still pumped up with enthusiasm and confidence for river fishing. I decided to get down to my usual stretch of the Wharfe and see if I could capitalise on that feel-good factor. Remembering his advice I made sure I paid close [...]
A couple of weeks ago myself and Stu spent a day on a Dales river with Steve Rhodes, long established guide with Go Fly Fishing UK. I’ll keep this short and sweet because I did a much longer ‘guest post’ on his website about our day out. We had a cracking day! I caught my biggest [...]