July 29, 2020
Part of the joy of fly fishing and guiding is that no two days on the river are the same. It’s never boring but some days are more eventful than others. Today was eventful. Toby, a regular visitor to North Wales was accompanied on this trip by his wife Fiona. He had planned an earlier…
July 25, 2020
It’s been an excellent week in North Wales. In addition to seeing both clients and friends catch quality fish, I’ve been able to wet a line myself and re explore some of the river Dee’s less fished beats. It is said that a picture paints a thousand words so I won’t bore you with…
July 20, 2020
With the Welsh border reopening last week, I was very keen to take advantage of the near perfect river height and semi settled weather, and to target some of the River Dee’s spectacular Grayling. It would also give me the opportunity to survey the inevitable changes that occur every winter when the river floods. …
July 18, 2020
As a young boy, a neighbour GAVE my brother and I matching cane fly rods. To us they were just fishing rods so they were immediately fitted with Intrepid Boyo reels and used to terrorise the river Trents Gudgeon and Minnow population. Back then we had no idea about fly fishing (some might say little…
July 13, 2020
First Half Saturdays client, Anthony wanted to start making the adjustment from reservoir fishing to small river fishing. He was hoping that this would enable him to tackle some of the fabulous little Welsh rivers close to his Liverpool base. The conditions were kinder to us than they have been of late but the Derbyshire…