MONDAY9th October 2000

Deep Forest Flyfishing adventure holidays in Sweden with Deep Forest. Sweden offers excellent flyfishing for salmon, sea-trout, trout, grayling, char and pike in beautiful and unspoilt wilderness surroundings. Here you can discover your own river stretch in the middle of the forest, or enjoy the company of anglers from all over the world in one…

A tall order perhaps especially considering the unpredictability of both highland trout and the weather; still, sometimes I think the straight forward approach of just a few flies rather than legions of assorted boxes works better for wild browns. Trout no matter whether they reside in a chalkstream or a remote highland tarn, are creatures…

Articles by Martin James Martin James Martin James. International salt and freshwater angler, consultant, writer, author, broadcaster and TV contributor was born in 1937 in Kent, at Canada House, a nursing home for Navy officer’s wives. Martin caught his first fish in 1941 during a German bomber raid on his home county of Kent. As…

They’re good to look at, fight tremendously well for their size and are enormously difficult to outwit, the all-round fish indeed but you don’t have to trek all the way across the Atlantic to find some superlative black bass sport. No, it’s here in our own European backyard.The stories go that it was General Franco…

Dropping a paternostered livebait into each slack along a given stretch of river will often produce at least one hungry pike. The fact that the river is in flood will mean that the pike will be pushed into a relatively small area so a catch of several pike from one spot can not be ruled…

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