I have been fly fishing for over 50 years but I would have to admit to being a bit of a slow starter. For much of my “career” I have been a one man band not necessarily out of choice but because in my youth I didn’t have anyone to confer with. I read...

Fly Fishing is NOT about the fly; but what if it is? I have written extensively about my view; that fly fishing really isn’t about the fly; despite so many anglers writers influencers and others all becoming besotted with flies and fly tying. It isn’...

I recently “hosted” an old friend from South Africa who was visiting the UK and cleverly arranged to get in some fishing in Mid Wales. Best I understand it he managed to convince a considerable family entourage to camp out in the nearby hills just so...

On those chill winter evenings perhaps glass in hand we might conjure up images of fishing either in the past or potential future. But those images rarely include struggling to cast into a frigid gale slinging tungsten on a tight line rig or stumblin...

I have been asked more than once by anglers and non-anglers alike; “What makes a good fly fisherman?”. It can be interesting to ponder because at first glance one could suggest that it would be the guy who casts the best or ties the neatest flies per...