Month: August 2018

August 19, 2018

In stark contrast to Friday’s Fly fishing ‘Man-fest’, Saturday was the annual meeting of the “Chinny club”. The name is of course an amalgam of Chiara and Ginny, her ex colleague and occasional angling buddy and is in no way meant as a reference to the amount of ‘chinwagging’ that occurs!   My role here…

August 19, 2018

A more relaxed river day today with a fellow CADAC member on the fabled Berwyn Arms beat. Not perfect conditions but certainly much better than the last couple of months.   The water remains ice cold and with the blustery wind and some of the trees already on the turn, it felt like summer was…

August 14, 2018

I can’t tell you how impressed I was with returning American client, Michael. He and his wife Barbara were arriving in England on Friday to attend a family wedding the following day. They were planning to return home to Connecticut on the Monday but he had somehow managed to squeeze in a days fly fishing…

August 14, 2018

It’s easy to lose touch with people even though these days we have so many more ways to communicate. Whereas once a phone call or a letter was acceptable as a valid attempt to contact someone, this has now been diminished to a text or a ‘like’ on Facebook. We are busier and it takes…