Fellow guide and CADAC member Peter Scholes of Lancashire based Bowland FlyFishing contacted me to say he was coming down to fish the Dee.   He has a team entered in the Hanak Grayling international scheduled for December and as much of it will be fished on Corwen waters, he wanted to explore a new…

A combination of bad weather and bad timing has meant that Chiara’s ex colleague Ginny, hasn’t fished her CADAC ticket once this year…. and it expires in December. So with no rain forecast and the river slowly dropping, a half Dee Day was planned.   The girls’ Duo set ups tempted Grayling on both the…

Brothers James and Michael had struggled to redeem the fly fishing voucher purchased for them by their wives, but eventually after 2 postponements, it was all booked. The river Dee would again be unkind to us but as they had a full weekend of activities planned anyway, we were going to carry on regardless of…

As I pulled on my waders in the car park by the river Goyt today, I was struck by how many people were around. Over the last few years I’ve watched this area of New Mills get steadily busier as a housing estate was built just above the river. Those long summer afternoons spent picking…