River fishing is one of my main fly fishing passions, catching wild brown trout and grayling on rivers and streams around the UK is a brilliant past time. Check out my fly tying page for patterns to catch river trout and grayling.
With the river levels over last weekend seeming to drop, I’ve been keeping a keen eye on the River Wye and its tributaries, but unexpectedly, the Wye rose a foot or more within a few hours last Tuesday and has been like it ever since. But, with this cold snap last night and its forecast to be cold again tonight, the river dropped a few inches and … Continue reading It’s all coming together nicely..
The recent high water had knocked fishing on the head the last few weekends, forcing us to stay indoors or fish relatively heavy bugs in the margin looking at a swollen river. Sunday morning the river had dropped lower than it has been for a while, dropping around3 inches overnight this left many unfishable areas, fishable letting flies trundle in runs which haven’t been fished in weeks. … Continue reading Taffing about
Me and my old man fished the Ewenney over the Christmas break, expectations where high, but so was the river. It was clear, but looked slightly murkier as the water was maybe a foot too high. We walked downstream a few hundred yards stopping and looking in anticipation at likely looking grayling holes. We both tackled up with a French Leader, as the river is single fly … Continue reading Ewenny Grayling
Sitting at the vice this evening, I thought it would be nice to put a few fly images on here – I’ve been filling my box up with spiders, nymphs and dries. After tying the standard style spiders, I was thinking about hook up rates and bump offs when fishing ’em, so I though… why not Jig em up? Look pretty cool to me. What … Continue reading Fly Tying and Photography..
Hi Guys! Sorry for the lack of posts over the Festive period! I hope you all had a great few days off work and got some fishing in?? Personally I spent the unfishable days on the vice and the fishable days in the Taff and Ewenney, trying to raise the Grayling count for 2011! Yesterday, Bushy, Terry and I fished the Taff around the Upper … Continue reading Fishing Over Christmas
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