Watford Tackle Carrier

For trout, Ephemera Danica represent the icing on the cake. Stonefly, midges, sedge and Daddies may excite, but mayfly get top billing. Just why this should be so can partly be explained by the insects size (bigger than most) but it also has a lot to do with the mayflies ability to hatch profusely even…

Specie: Lake Trout Weight: 29 lbs Location: Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, Canada I’m the cook at a fly-in fishing camp. This isn’t a particularly big fish for our lake – for most of the season our fishermen can reasonably hope to catch a laker over 30 lbs (and many will catch several over 30; the camp…

It happened in a moment, but now I know the sort of extended passion that dwells on the edge of a scream. I’m going to break the news to my wife when the moment’s right. Honesty is the best policy when you’ve succumbed to a bit of naughty, naughty. She won’t be pleased, but she’ll…

A quick look in my local newsagents reveals around a dozen. I reckon that with the internet and regional magazines there are probably over thirty. That is around four hundred articles each month, something like FIVE MILLION words each year! Add to that catch reports, match reports, venue guides, editorial, and all the other bits…

Although we all tend to hark back to the good old days, it is a fact that not only are rivers getting clearer, they are also suffering from more extreme flow patterns. Big floods are increasingly common, and when they aren’t over their banks they resemble canals! Just recently we had the equivalent of a…

Saltwater fly fishing in the Gulf by Martin James, Thursday 1st April, 1999 Articles related by topic: Abroad, Exotic, Game/Fly Fishing, Sea, Venue Articles related by species: Exotic In the distance I could see the birds wheeling and diving into the clear blue waters of the Gulf. I shouted to Hussain “Birds diving at two…