Fishing on the Frontier – Part 25
I have just returned from my best ever trip to the San, which is saying something, because I had thought some of my previous...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 26
San River Report 2009
I thought it best to update the Frontier series, appropriately, with the year’s San River report. It is very difficult to...
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 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 22
Contrasts - Competition and Conservation
In a rough and tumble, helter skelter spring with a fly rod; from deep cold to deep drought, to storms...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 21
Tactical
While never happier than wading my river hunting for wild trout and grayling, I have to admit that much of this stems from my...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 20
Tactical Wading Part 3
River fly fishing, indeed all fly fishing, is mostly about presentation. I know that flies are important - specific patterns; but...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 19
Tactical Wading continued.......
At talks and presentations, or guided fishing, throughout last summer and this autumn, I have been asked more and more about this...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 18
Tactical Wading
Having just given a CPPD presentation to the Game Angling Instructors Association (GAIA) on nymph fishing, with particular regard to wading technique, I...
Fishing on the Frontier – Part 17
The Washing Line Rig
I promised to write up about the National Final on Bewl this weekend with specific reference to the method and tactics...
