The editor ‘phoned me last night to give his appraisal of my latest literary offerings; that’s the www.fishing.co.uk editor. “You remember fishing?” He enquired, his sarcasm barely detectable to the naked ear. His point being that although my recent ramblings were quite entertaining they had very little to do with angling, a small but valid point.
I spent a while going through my fishing diary in which I record each trout caught and the successful fly used in its capture. I thought that I knew what I needed to tie to refill my box, but I was wrong! It is amazing how time dulls the brain – though maybe the red…
No sooner did the rivers begin to settle than we got even more rain, and in my area the levels of the Thames held up very high even after seven dry(ish) days. The river was extremely coloured too. Whether this was caused by the Thames barrier being closed to prevent the high tides accompanying the…
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A shout for a Butt Pad will often send the Charter boat skipper and maybe one or two anglers in the charter party rummaging in the bottom of tackle boxes and bags to try and find a pad for the poor unfortunate who is hanging over the stern, rod bent double and a fish of…
Now, going by the title of this piece you might be forgiven for thinking that this is one of those ‘travel’ pieces. Well. It’s not. It’s actually about how I managed to catch some fish that weren’t feeding. Read between the lines and you might pick up a tip or two – or you might…
It was drizzling on the afternoon I went to visit the 88-year-old Pariente, who was quick to point out that he took up fly-fishing in the Forties, when Spain was recovering from its civil war and waders were just beginning to make their way into the country from across the Pyrenees. That one of the…