Dimples on the far bank. I have had a LOT of adjusting to do since moving to Wales; a gorgeous place with gorgeous people lovely scenery and pretty good fishing. BUT the fishing is quite different to what I was used to in the Western Cape of South Af...

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...