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...

The Wye Usk foundation have a number (in fact a good number) of streams designated as “wild” and one can obtain an annual permit to fish them should they not be booked by day ticket anglers. They tend to be smaller streams less well known frequently...

When Otto in the film “A Fish Called Wanda” discovers the safe he expected to contain millions in diamonds is in fact empty he exclaims with understated angst “Disappointed!”.  It is only a single word but within the delivery is captured gut wrenchin...

Yesterday was a day of firsts in fact quite a few firsts for me the executive summary: The notion to target some bass started about a week ago when I  had to visit Aberystwyth Hospital for an appointment and arriving early into town I wandered a litt...