Been playing around with mink and rabbit strips for the last few months, admittedly I haven’t used them that extensively except for Farmoor and Draycote. The rabbit strips have worked much better for me than the mink this year but previous years it has been the mink that normally triumphs. Now I don’t tie my zonkers big (rabbit), I normally only leave 1ish cm over the bend of … Continue reading Mink V’s Rabbit
With the weekend fast approaching, its about time I filled up the ‘Fry’ box in readiness for some (hopefully!) fry feeders at Draycote on Sunday. It’s not fishing that well by all accounts, but its worth a go. A mixture of rabbit strips in 5 different colours and some glass rattles would sure add some ‘Eat Me’ characteristics to my flies? That’s what I’m hoping anyway. With … Continue reading Fry time?
Sorry for the picture-full post! So the rivers haven’t been fishing that well, speaking to Bushy and Terry who fished the Wye on Saturday, they only took a few Grayling and trout between them but with surprising amounts of salmon in the river, which in turn is a great thing to see but maybe putting off the Grayling due to the Salmons spawning behaviour. Farmoor … Continue reading The mist descends
My Airflo mug has been a godsend the last few weeks. With the cold weather setting in and not using a Thermos mug before I was delighted when I started using mine. Keeping my hot chocolate warm until around 10:30am! Useful for travelling to your destination, be it work or fishing! Sitting down in the morning to tie a klinkhammer or two before work isn’t everybody’s norm, but I … Continue reading Thursday morning…
After a great day on the river with Bish, I tempted Fishstalker away from the stream and onto the lakes! A totally different concept of catching fish on lighter weight fishing tackle etc, etc… But im sure he enjoyed the day! Check out the images below.. hopefully they will show the day without too many words! No doubt Fishstalker will be writing a post… keep an … Continue reading Farmoor… Again
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