Cow Green
I had originally scheduled this weekend for a mission to Wester Ross which in retrospect was a ludicrously optimistic notion with a 4 month old baby at home and important deadlines at work to keep on...
View ArticleDown and across – no shame
Another fishing opportunity arose on Monday so I took myself off to the Wharfe for the afternoon. It had been raining but the river levels website suggested it was coming down so screw it, worth a...
View ArticleFrench nymphing on the Wharfe
For pretty much my entire working life I’ve never bothered taking more than a couple of days off over Christmas but the new arrival at Yorkshireflyfishing HQ has prompted a volte-face this year. I...
View ArticleWhy are pike anglers such big f*ckers?
There are some fishing trips where no fish are caught that will nevertheless justify a fairly involved write up. This, to be fair, is not one of those. We were both keen to do some deadbaiting...
View ArticleWaders…
You may recall that during my last fishing excursion I discovered my nearly-new 5mm Ocean neoprene chest waders were leaking quite badly. No fun in Winter! I weighed up the pros and cons of getting...
View ArticleLockdown roundup
Nearest I’ve got to fishing – a walk around Swinsty! “vicarious experienced as a result of watching, listening to, or reading about the activities of other people, rather than by doing the activities...
View ArticlePerfect
It’s months since I last went fishing, and watching everyone go nuts catching prolific amounts of enormous brown trout once the lockdown restrictions were eased has been frustrating. As mentioned in...
View ArticleA Lakeland Tarn
At the moment, a 3 or 4 night mission to the North West Highlands of Scotland is off the cards for various reasons but I simply had to get away for some sort of wild brown trout fishing. The Lakes is...
View ArticleA Wild Camp in Lorn
As regular readers of this blog will know, the highlights of my angling calendar were always the annual week’s fishing in either Assynt or Wester Ross in June with mates, followed by a long weekend...
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