This month Jeremy is looking at the recent performances of Team England (Fly Fishing) and pondering just what has gone... Read More
Tactical Wading Part 3 River fly fishing, indeed all fly fishing, is mostly about presentation. I know that flies are... Read More
The Washing Line Rig I promised to write up about the National Final on Bewl this weekend with specific reference... Read More
March Browns have appeared on almost every day I have been out lately on Eden. No matter what the farms... Read More
Dry Fly It strikes me that in all the trips to the river (almost daily for an hour or two)... 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
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
Leader-to-hand Jeremy Lucas reports on more cutting-edge developments bred from the world of competitive flyfishing. The French Leader technique involves... Read More
Jeremy Lucas continues his exploration of fishing in the Czech Rebublic When we moved from the Otava region deeper into... Read More
Micro Dry Fly – Presentation As with any approach, it is the presentation that counts. We are focused here on... 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
Published in: Members ArticlesTraumatised By Tailing Loops? Often wrongly referred to as wind knots in the leader, tailing loops are a common problem that affect many anglers as they progress from beginner to intermediate. A tailing loop is where the top of the fly line crosses the bottom of it twice when casting, resulting in… 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
Top fly fishing guide and instructor Jeremy Lucas continues his series on presentation this month. “I am writing this Frontier... Read More
Published in: Members ArticlesThe Roll-Cast Pick-UP When visiting stillwaters, I quite often see beginners retrieving far too much fly line through the rod tip. This invariably results in far too many false casts to try and get a sufficient amount of fly line back out through the rod tip rod to load and deliver the… Read More
The Palomar knot is very simple and perfect for tying on flies and hooks.
It ranks alongside the Trilene knot as the strongest knot for attaching a fly to a tippet. Read More
Published in: Members ArticlesTeaching Fly Fishing Find an Instuctor Author Chris Hauge Teaching! I like to call it "Loading the clients tool box up with casts that catch fish." I teach a wide variety of client's in single and double handed fly casting. Clients vary from total beginners, intermediate casters, advanced casters, clients training to… Read More
Micro Dry Fly It is a somewhat surprising fact that few British anglers actually fish to the size of the... Read More
Yesterday, the 27th October, Enoka caught her first Wye double-figure barbel. She wouldn’t weigh it, but I’m guessing 11 pounds,... Read More
I never really agree with the cliché that there is nothing new in the sport. That would be to deny... Read More