Fishing on the Frontier – Part 32
Observations from the World Championship
It was immensely edifying this year to be able to observe the World Championship, on such a magnificent river as...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 9
In several of the practice sessions for last year's European Championships in Norway, I spent quite a lot of time observing Iain Barr's presentation...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 47: The Bridge
"What an extraordinary year with a fly rod it has been! While much of the autumn has been spoiled because of the flooded rivers,...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 23
Dry Fly
It strikes me that in all the trips to the river (almost daily for an hour or two) since some time in May;...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 3: San River
Watching Pascal, I saw him catch 30 grayling in an hour, from really rather challenging water, missing very few, all with barely moving his...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 33
Leader-to-hand
Jeremy Lucas reports on more cutting-edge developments bred from the world of competitive flyfishing. The French Leader technique involves no fly line coming off...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 13
Western European Leaders
You will notice that I have persisted with the related subjects of presentation and take detection, and this piece pursues these further....
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 48: Euro-Style; A New Boundary State
The modern river fly fisher exists at a boundary state, right on the cusp of control. There is a vast difference between the angler...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 24
August’s Sleeping River
Someone I bumped into in Appleby was asking me about where and how best to fish the Eden. My immediate reply was:...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 4
Stealing the angle
As with so much in fly fishing, it is largely a matter of finding the right angle on the fish, particularly in...
