Little by little the boxes of books are being unpacked and placed in their new Herefordshire bookshelves. Many are, of... Read More
Monday, my first day back on the three mile beat of upper Bure that I rented forty years ago. It... Read More
It’s a cold, dank day, with a vicious Northerly wind blowing down the valley. Hardly what I’d expect for the... Read More
A friend has just sent me a veiled diatribe in a recently published book. In it, although I am not... Read More
NEW CHALLENGES Like everyone, I have my favourite venues, but I also love exploring new places and trying to get... Read More
Angling is hardly a world wherein woke attitudes have really taken root, but perhaps they should. Diversity is a concept... Read More
The Wild Trout Trust annual fundraising auction takes place 18-27 March on the WTT’s own auction website. With 366 Lots,... Read More
This week saw me successfully complete forty nine years on this earth and the twenty fifth anniversary of my employment... Read More
Another bleak day in Norfolk, and hard to believe this is the start of July – though of old I... Read More
By a raft of good fortune and with a lot of help from friends, I am in the market for... Read More
This is going to be nip and tuck. My goal of catching a barbel every month of the winter hangs... Read More
For a long time I have been brooding about a barbel technique I flirted with around 1998/1999. In short, to... Read More
It is one of the most famous names in Scottish West Coast salmon and sea-trout fishing. But the Isle of Harris' Amhuinnsuidhe fishery, with its superlative wild fly-fishing on Lochs Voshmid, Scourst and Ulladale is not just about fishing, as Greig Thomson of Salmo International describes.. Read More
The Wild Trout Trust have announced their annual charity Auction, their most important annual fundraising event. They have some really... Read More
For reasons some might guess, I’m on my way North on Sunday/Monday coming. I’m around the Eden first, and then... Read More
So, Monday, I caught trout, but a fraction of the basket I would have expected back in 1981 when I... Read More
Week one, Done. Hawthorn was early, heavy but brief and as always has served as the flicking of a switch... Read More
As July merges into August, high summer into late-summer, a pattern has become established on Norway's sportfishing rivers. When a 2012 salmon is hooked it tends to be an older, bigger, river fish. Now, with the season ending two weeks tomorrow, from the Lakselva to the Orkla, the question is repeated: what has happened to Norway's summer run of medium sized salmon and grilse? And the newer, big fish, for that matter? Read More
For nigh on forty years I was a member of the truly excellent Norfolk Flyfishers’ Club (NFC), and it was... Read More
The continued high mortality of salmon at sea in light of climate change is a serious issue and is examined here by Chris Todd, Professor of Marine Ecology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
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By Malcolm Dutchman-Smith In the course of the present century the name of Eddie McCarthy has become synonymous with the... Read More