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The night was upon me but at least I had sorted out the mud problem by putting wood under the bedchair legs to stop me sinking into the soft ground. Despite the line bites the first real bite did not occur until just before midnight when the rod cast to the bush gave a few…

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What is the Specialist Anglers Alliance ?The Specialist Anglers Alliance (SAA) was formed in May 2001 from the amalgamation of NASA and SACG. NASA had a track record as an organisation which catered for all specialist anglers and produced quality publications and ran successful conferences. SACG, spawned from NASA, concentrated on the political arena surrounding…

However in this article, l want to concentrate on just one aspect of fly fishing, that is catching deep water wild brown trout from large reservoirs or lakes. I hope to show how I, with my coarse fishing friends, transferred knowledge from coarse fishing into this specialist form of fly fishing. Certainly not ultra purist…

This is my main float for trotting medium to fast paced rivers. I use them in sizes ranging from 5BB to 1 OBB which in some parts of the country would be classed as very heavy but I am fishing flowing rivers like the Tidal Thames, Kennet, Test, Itchen, Dorset Stour and the Hampshire Avon….

I took a flight from Baltimore’s International airport for Orlando Florida. One of the great things about flying in the United States is the cheap air fares, compared with rip-off Britain’s air fares, high airport taxes and of course the very high tax on fuel. My destination was the town of Titusville on the east…