The Grannom hatch has continued unabated over the past few days and I have been on the river several times as much to witness what was going on as to seriously fish. Mind you I do seriously fish at every opportunity just this time I wouldn’t have bee...

Spring is struggling to show itself here in Mid-Wales we have had temperatures varying from freezing to 17°C and winds from flat calm to hurricane force all within a few days. The worst of it; apparently courtesy of entirely inadequately named “Storm...

The book ”The Trout and the Fly” (ISBN 13: 9780510225346) by Goddard and Clarke was groundbreaking at the time of publication (1981). Featuring close-up imagery of trout behaviour and new ideas about artificial fly design. The outrageous concept of t...

I have become an ACE experimenter on stream. I basically never “just go fishing” I am always playing with the options trying out new things fiddling if you must. On what is relatively new water for me there is much to learn. Although to be fair I do...

I am not a gadget guy really I try to keep my gear as simple as possible; minimalistic even although I still carry too many flies and too many fly boxes. We all have our own vices. But I don’t grab every gadget that comes on the market. I try to carr...