A slight dimple appeared on the calm surface of Lake Tahoma. With one false cast, the beaded pheasant tail nymph dropped with a slight plop. I made two one inch pulls then felt a good fish eat the nymph. My answering strip strike connected with a nice brown trout. Success at last I thought, as the fish bored powerfully away taking a few feet of line.
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We all know that barbel are very much the dish of the day over here in Britain and we also realise that there are probably more barbel anglers than there are fish at present! This means that most British barbel fishing tends to be pressured or very exclusive. Theres precious little scope for anybody who…
This was the day the sun shone on a slick surfaced sea. The wind was light but still carrying a deceptive chill from the nether regions of the north – but the early Spring sunshine was welcome, surely this was a sign of better things to come!!Shadowing the wreck was a cloud of fish rising…
It was a wild, desolate and beautiful place. Acres of rocks, kelp and bladder-wrack interspersed with spits of shingle and sand. Rushing green slides of clear tidal water ran like rivers in flood between boulders of granite, all of it stretching away towards the horizon. A place of currents, washed out shells, where a myriad…
Barnsfold Water near Chipping, in the shadow of Beacon Fell. Fishing well now the water has cooled down, several double figure bags taken mostly by anglers fishing slime line with several fish in the 5-8lb bracket. Buzzers still taking fish but most fish on small fry patterns; try a small rudd fry or polystickle. Safe…
Time spent caring for tackle and putting everything in its place is a job for someone else. While I was doing that I could be fishing!The art of being a successful lazy blighter is to be organised, so the mess which is my reel collection box is only a mess to other people. I know…