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
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…
It’s not often we make plans and they go ahead these days. You guest right… im talking about Bish… He had a day off so we thought we’d catch a few Grayling. As we turned up it was immediate that the river was high with a tinge of colour, but this doesn’t normally stop us! Into the boot of the car, Waders on and fishing … Continue reading Grayling in a local river
With the end of the Trout season is upon us, I took it on my duty to fish Draycote once before the end of the season. My and Lloyd fished untill dark, taking into double figures to the boat. We went with some intention of boating a few of the better fish which were described as ‘horses’ by one guy. Fishing for a few hours for these bigger fish, … Continue reading Dry Fly Fishing on Draycote
What an exciting thing to look forward too! It’s been nearly a year since I set foot on the concrete bank of which is Farmoor – Boxing day 2010 the lake was frozen solid, 50 anglers on the lake with around 500 yards of ice free fish-able water. All crammed into one area the fishing certainly wasn’t going to be easy! Within the first 5 minutes we’d … Continue reading A Full Fishing Weekend!
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