I have certainly used many other fly lines, but I always seem to go back to the good old Cortland 444. It is supple, floats well, is pretty durable (it needs to be with me, for I rarely bother with regular cleaning and maintenance!) and if you shop around you can get it at a…

During that week there were two heats of the Hardy competition, the Association match for the Major Clubs event and the first of our regional qualifiers for the England teams for next years home internationals. All in all, quite a busy time for the Bristol Water staff. At the start of the week the lake…

THE CAIRNS BLACK MARLIN FISHERY IS UNDER PRESSURE WE NEED YOUR HELP TO ENSURE IT SURVIVES The heavy tackle Cairns Black Marlin fishery is in severe danger of collapsing after the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) announced the re zoning of the Marine Park via the RAP. This is not scare mongering, but…

Anglian Waters report: by Guest Contributor, Monday 14th October, 2002 Articles related by topic: Game/Fly Fishing, Venue Articles related by species: Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout Rutland Water Jim Moncur, Keith Malcolm, and Michael Soutar, from Perthshire, Scotland, spent five days at Rutland, mainly fishing from the bank and recorded forty fish, with rainbows up to…

Once the river levels were back to a fishable condition, coarse and game anglers experienced some good fishing. On the game fishing rivers lots of seatrout have been caught with many being returned. The rivers Hodder, Ribble, Lune and Eden all offered good sport. Peter Richards of Bolton legering a lobworm for chub and barbel…

The fly is both easy to tie and uses materials that are readily available. Newcomers to the art of fly-tying could do a lot worse than to start out on a fly like this one. I believe that Arthur tied the fly to imitate the large buzzers found in Eyebrook in the sixties. He generally…

This quotation is from Doctor Ken Whitakers paper presented to a symposium on Salmon Conservation, held at Cappoquin House on November 13th, this symposium was organised in association with The Blackwater Salmon Development Group and hosted by Sir Richard Keane. Doctor Whitaker said that the most affected corrective is a halt to the killing of…

I feel the fee is very good value. Who will look after our rivers and streams, if we didn’t have the EA? Having a go at the Environment Agency seems to be in fashion these days. Yes, I too have complained about the EA when it’s been deserved. But before complaining about the agency you…

Brian Webber, an electrician from Manchester fishing the lower reaches of the river Ribble has caught a personal best barbel weighing 12lb 2 ounces on hair rigged pellet bait on a size 6 hook to 10lb line. The rivers Wharfe, Ure, Nidd, Ouse, Dane and Swale are some other rivers in the north of England…

Rain was promised though, so we headed out onto Lough Carra as soon as we had breakfasted. It was to be just the three of us Paul, Steven and myself; Padraig was away guiding on Mask. When we came out of the Partry channel, we headed right instead of the left of yesterday. I remember…