Contrasts – Competition and Conservation In a rough and tumble, helter skelter spring with a fly rod; from deep cold... Read More
Tactical While never happier than wading my river hunting for wild trout and grayling, I have to admit that much... Read More
Observations from the World Championship It was immensely edifying this year to be able to observe the World Championship, on... 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
Tactical Wading Having just given a CPPD presentation to the Game Angling Instructors Association (GAIA) on nymph fishing, with particular... 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
What a strange winter it has so far been; mild and stormy with many of our rivers unfishable for very... Read More
Following on with the theme of presentation this month, which is so visible on the river angling agenda nowadays, one... Read More
March Browns have appeared on almost every day I have been out lately on Eden. No matter what the farms... Read More
I am totally crazy, gaga, mad for river roach and I’m not alone. Recent surveys have shown that a two-pound... Read More
Right now, there is huge excitement about what is happening in this sport we love so much, particularly the single-handed... Read More
Improved Take Detection I wrote before about sensitive take detection and its importance in hard fished waters where we have... Read More
There are so many angles to consider: so much to work out in order to put the fly where the... 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
I enjoyed the privilege of fishing alongside Dave Coster a couple of days last week, just before rain drove the... Read More
Stealing the angle As with so much in fly fishing, it is largely a matter of finding the right angle... 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
Jeremy Lucas begins to develop his thoughts on specific river techniques in the latest in his ‘Frontier’ series. A lot... Read More
Watching Pascal, I saw him catch 30 grayling in an hour, from really rather challenging water, missing very few, all... Read More
Published in: Members ArticlesSpider fishing Spider fishing's tradition goes back century's. The origins of the simple north country spider wet fly pattern – often referred to as the ‘soft hackle’ fly – can be traced back to early 19th Century Yorkshire, when descriptions appeared in an 1807 manuscript by Ilkley farmer John Swarbrick. But it… Read More
Jeremy Lucas continues his exploration of fishing in the Czech Rebublic When we moved from the Otava region deeper into... Read More