Village Tackle Shop

In my role as assistant to John Horsey in the Peregrine/Nomad International Flyfishing Competition I was unfortunately out of the country for the first round event at Rutland, but I had a full report from John. There were no great surprises as Dave Shipman’s Cormorant Fly Fishers team easily won the day with 37 trout….

We have a calendar at work that gives you a ‘thought for the day’ on each page, some witty, some poignant, mostly naff. Today’s message warranted repeating though I thought, it read, “Give someone a fish and it will feed them for a day, give someone the knowledge to fish and you will feed them…

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Like Desroches, Alphonse is one of the Amirantes island group, about 250 miles south of the main island of Mahé. Alphonse Island itself has a large circular reef, within which is a shallow lagoon of finest talcum powder coral sand.The Alphonse hotel complex is a recently-built collection of ‘A’ frame chalets on short stilts. About…

Scierra was the main spearhead for these tours, having rented a house and leasing some of the most beautiful stretches of salmon water on the Orkla River in the Rønningen area, 60 kilometers south of Trondheim. The trip also incorporated elements from a local newspaper “Aarhus Stiftstidende” and “Grejbiksen” a local tackle shop. Scierra are…

The massive cod catches from Dungeness beach in Kent back in the 1960’s were the catalyst that spawned the dramatic development in surf fishing tackle and casting techniques that we witnessed through the 70’s and 80’s. Modified tackle and the pendulum cast gave us the ability to put big baits out well over 100-metres into…