Fly Fishing guide, instructor and author Jeremy Lucas notes the continued rise in interest in fishing for grayling this winter... Read More
Spring Thoughts Having spent the weekend at the Spring show at Newark, meeting up with so many friends in this... Read More
Perhaps this is shameful publicity for the upcoming series of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing that’s on its way to... Read More
Accuracy Rivers all over Britain have been steadily falling this spring. Here on Eden we have had more than six... Read More
Throughout this series, I have tried to bring a glimpse of what is going on at the frontier of fly fishing for trout & grayling, though have not really explored other developments, such as fly fishing for other species and, notably, salt water. I do very little of the latter and there are far more experienced fly fishers in these areas to broadcast what is going on. Read More
San River Report 2009 I thought it best to update the Frontier series, appropriately, with the year’s San River report.... Read More
Tactical Wading Having just given a CPPD presentation to the Game Angling Instructors Association (GAIA) on nymph fishing, with particular... Read More
I never really agree with the cliché that there is nothing new in the sport. That would be to deny... Read More
Tactical While never happier than wading my river hunting for wild trout and grayling, I have to admit that much... Read More
“What an extraordinary year with a fly rod it has been! While much of the autumn has been spoiled because... Read More
A Year to Remember 2009 might even be regarded as a vintage year, in my view. The bulk of my... Read More
Contrasts – Competition and Conservation In a rough and tumble, helter skelter spring with a fly rod; from deep cold... Read More
Watching Pascal, I saw him catch 30 grayling in an hour, from really rather challenging water, missing very few, all... Read More
Improved Take Detection I wrote before about sensitive take detection and its importance in hard fished waters where we have... Read More
The concept and development of the leader to hand technique that Jeremy Lucas has been explaining over his past few... Read More
Dry Fly It strikes me that in all the trips to the river (almost daily for an hour or two)... Read More
Published in: Members ArticlesHow to tie the Davy knot The Davy knot was created by Davy Wotton and boast an extreamly high breaking strength. It is used for tying the fly onto the leader and it is much smaller than most other knots so it does not impede the action of the fly as it… Read More
Micro Dry Fly – Presentation As with any approach, it is the presentation that counts. We are focused here on... Read More
Spring on Eden “You have to be in the right place at the right time” says Jeremy Lucas talking about... Read More
Tactical Wading Part 3 River fly fishing, indeed all fly fishing, is mostly about presentation. I know that flies are... Read More
In several of the practice sessions for last year’s European Championships in Norway, I spent quite a lot of time... Read More