So much has happened in a short time that I am struggling to keep up with things. Everything is just so new and exciting! Last weekend Peter Hayes, the brains behind the company called “Tasmania’s Premier Trout Guides”, invited me to go with him to Ballarat, a town about an hour north of Melbourne, as…
Had there been onlookers at such an early hour, they might have interpreted the sight of 3 rubber-suited men striding into the surf at dawn as some sort of ritualised suicide pact. As the water passed my midriff and the currents tried to wash me up the coast I wondered if such an interpretation might…
This is the culmination of a commitment made in 1999 by the three Governing Bodies of angling to bring the sport into line with other major sports in the UK. fishcoach.org is part of the Joint Angling Governing Bodies and has been set up to manage the scheme, which has been endorsed by Sport England…
Days and Nights of Salmon & Sea trout – 5 by Alan Tomkins, Saturday 1st September, 2001 Articles related by topic: Anecdotal/Memoirs, Diary, Game/Fly Fishing Articles related by species: Atlantic Salmon, Brown Trout The previous year we had gone to Ireland for our yearly salmon trip. In many ways it had been an enjoyable week,…
Okay. Well, first of all we have a new competition for you to enter.These competitions that we are running are really popular. And why not? The chance of something for nothing has always had appeal, I just never realised how popular these things were with anglers. Perhaps its something to do with the quality of…
This new edition for July has a whole load of new articles for your enjoyment plus a brand new competition. Don’t forget to enter it because if you are not in the game then you are not in the frame!Well, what will it be this week? I dont know what to fish for at this…
Some may disagree, but my concept of life is that it is a collection of memories; some wonderful, some painful, and some best forgotten. That is why I think that life gets faster as one ages, for when one is young a year is full of hundreds of recollections. New people, new experiences, and relived…
Not with Alaska itself, but with the fact that the silver salmon we had come to catch tended to be in the slower water, not the type of (fly) water so beloved of salmon anglers. Half of the charm in fly-fishing for salmon is in the method. On the second morning I set off with…
It’s nice to see that we have been getting some good reviews from the conventional media, both the Guardian newspaper and Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine have rated us as the best angling site on the web. I don’t know about you but I’m never sure about the accuracy of reviews unless I know the…
Breakfast was early on the Terres Rouges beachfront today, wild fruit followed by tea and toast was consumed in record time as we watched Douda and his crewman Romanise load the Tipaul. We could see the shadowed outline of the fabled Mitsio Islands on the pink and orange line of the horizon as we ate….