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Thankfully the likes of Lefty Kreh, Pat O’Reilly, Jim Schollmeyer, Mark Bachman and other fly fishers, both in the UK and the United States, helped me to get rid of some bad casting habits. For a hundred years or so, fly fishing writers discussed casting with the aid of the hands of a clock, they…

Well, let me assure you that it is just not true; yes, spring may indeed herald the start of thornie fishing in some areas, but down here, if you really went for it, you could quite feasibly catch thornbacks all year round. In the areas that I fish I would go as far as to…

The easiest way to do this is to get a map and look for all the bits of blue on it. An Ordnance Survey map will be the best bet for this. The Landranger series is the most common and this is at 1:50,000 scale, which means that every 50,000 metres on the ground will…

Mike was 61 years old and without warning suffered an apparent aneurysm of the brain. Mike was a gentle person, and a good friend to all of us. Michael was a Life member of the Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) after receiving the FFF Arnold Gingrich Memorial Award in 1996. Mike, with Christine as photographer,…

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His progress was hampered because he was carrying something heavy and the rain had affected his glasses, so that he had only the most general view of his surroundings. The lack of any close range detail meant that he continually stumbled over tussocks of grass and slipped in cow dung. Even at a range of…