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Wednesday, 11 April 2018

Book Review: River Fly Fishing by Peter Lapsley; A Fly Fisher's Entomology by J. R. Harris

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I read this book every year before the start of the new season, and each time I get something new from it. This year, I gleaned partic...
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Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Tricky Dikler on Opening Day

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I'd checked the weather forecast yesterday, natch - west north westerly, gusting up to 40mph: Well, as usual they got it wrong, the ...
Thursday, 5 March 2015

Loading the Correct Amount of Backing on Your Fly Reel (And a Tip for Greys Streamlite Owners with Pawl Issues)

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At this is the time of year, with the dawn of a new game season a few tantalising weeks distant, fly fishers are wont to untie the old rod ...
Saturday, 21 February 2015

The Gentleman of the Stream

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Finally, after spending the entire winter in pursuit of a decent grayling, worthy of a post of its own, I am able to present ...
Friday, 14 November 2014

The Magic Fly and the Grayling

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The final couple of weeks of the trout season can be a frantic time. Fish begin to move with renewed vigour as the water temperatur...
Sunday, 21 September 2014

A Toast to the Season

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Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that the regular poster of this blog has not been so regular of late. Well, I've been fis...
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