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As Forrest Gump famously noted “you never know what you are going to get” and so it was with my most recent foray onto a section of the Upper Wye River. I had been out the day before and drummed up a few grayling and the occasional trout on an emerge...

No doubt if you have read many of my blog posts you will know that I am far more of a “presentationist” than an “imitationist”. This is to a degree a little embarrassing for someone who has published articles and books on fly tying. To be fair my fly...

It is an opinion that I hear all the time that heavier gear lands fish more rapidly and with less stress to the fish and that light gear advocates are killing fish through their selfish machinations.. A recent post on line about an admittedly uninten...

Euro-nymphing isn’t simply “Chuck and Duck” Now it so happens that I have been fortunate enough to spend something in the region of forty years fishing some of the best dry fly water publicly available in the World. (Although I suspect that most angl...

Damp days Euro-Nymphing and line stick. I have been doing OK here on the upper Wye in mid-Wales rarely actually suffering a blank but always wondering if things shouldn’t be better than they are. For one thing there have been few rising fish I mean r...