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
It was an honour to receive the Welsh Fisherman of the year award from WSTAA a few weeks ago. I hear there was some fierce competition for the award as you probably would have guessed, but it was said that my performance in the Youth World Championships of 4th position overall tipped the scales. (so to speak) Continue reading Welsh Fisherman of the year
What’s going on! Been raining here all day again, and not the light stuff! I refrained from going fishing this weekend as the rivers where so high Saturday and I had to attend a meeting on Sunday. The Taff is back at flood level and most rivers are sure to be the same in Wales and Scotland… although I feel for our friends in the … Continue reading Should I build an Arc?
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?
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