Well, the frost-rimed fields around my house suggest winter sure is back, and yesterday when the sun got up, I... Read More
Sea Trout Shortcomings A summer morning sat beside a misty lake in dappled sunrise targeting tench, with my good mate... Read More
Mid-July, down here in Devon, on the Exe where temperatures hit 30 degrees plus most of yesterday afternoon. The whole... 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
In 1981, I rented a three mile stretch of the upper Bure around the village of Saxthorpe in North Norfolk.... Read More
As some of you may know, I returned to the River Garry after a gap of around twenty years. Now,... Read More
Nestled in the hillside of the beautiful Strathglass, a few miles outside Beauly near Inverness, lies Eagle Brae – a... Read More
I noticed these words in a recent post, and they got me thinking hard. Is it too far a leap... Read More
The End of the Road Trip It was time to leave the South coast and head home. Not directly! Instead,... Read More
When I wrote about the grayling in the Lugg adjoining the Leominster B&Q car park, a couple of you wrote... Read More
A Day on the Derwent I found myself heading to the Midlands for a day’s work. Travelling to that region,... Read More
Magical Mayfly MASS HATCH OPPORTUNITY Finally, the wind has turned a 180°, temperatures have soared, and the flood water’s receding.... Read More
Let me give you a bit of background because I genuinely need some help here. I began fishing the Wensum,... Read More
American angler Curtis Fleming potentially set the new men’s 1 kg (2 lb) tippet class world record for brown trout... Read More
I saw in yesterday’s Sunday Times (5th September 2021) that Lyng Mill, in Lyng, Norfolk, has come on the market,... Read More
In response to R’s comments on salmonids in the heat, I find the subject critically interesting. In the event, we... Read More
Another bleak day in Norfolk, and hard to believe this is the start of July – though of old I... Read More
Monday, my first day back on the three mile beat of upper Bure that I rented forty years ago. It... Read More
Luring Trout with Streamers Faced with Arctic weather and very poor hatches, I decided to go big this year for... Read More
This follows successful work to improve the ecology and habitat of the brook. The Lyme Brook runs through the heart... Read More
The occasional rummage around in charity book shops turns up a treasure or two and so it was a month... Read More