To paraphrase the popular idiom, One mans rubbish is another mans gold. Whilst the current conditions were rubbish for Salmon fishing, they provided us with a golden opportunity to fish some very special beats which would otherwise have been off limits to us.   Day 3 was a similar story. This time we were fishing…

Back at the hotel I bemoaned our predicament to our host Nigel and told him we were planning to head downstream to Lazonby where apparently, the water levels would be better.   After much whining from me and a good deal of deliberation from him, he eventually offered something. “I know a very special place…

A fishing trip up to Cumbria is always eventful. My three blog followers may remember that I was trapped at the Tufton Arms hotel in the floods of 2015 and since then, every subsequent trip has coincided with heavy rainfall, albeit thankfully not on the same scale. The net result though has been poor fishing…

I recently congratulated a client on how quickly he appeared to have mastered the art of ‘The Fishing Excuse’. He’d just returned from a less than fruitful trip and was citing water temperature as a contributing factor, which of course it is.   He was both consoled and commended. I went on to explain that…

The recent good weather was set to break at around 2pm today so I thought I’d head to the river Goyt for a first go at it’s resident Brown Trout.   The river was running a little high and was slightly coloured but it was the best it’s been for some time. There were no…

On Saturday, I finally got my first chance of the season to target the Brown Trout of the river Dee. I was again indebted to the chauffeur and to show my respect and appreciation, I sat in the front and told her that today she could dispense with the cap and gloves.   A bright,…