Or was the Trout Fisherman free with T&S? Anyway, I nipped into WHSmith’s today to pick up my usual copy of Busty Northern Housewives when I spied the fishing section and discretely shuffled over with the collars turned up on…
More Winter piking
Last weekend the weather seemed pretty much bang on for another attempt at deadbaiting for pike – a couple of adjacent days of cold, hard weather but a bit of intermittent sunshine so we decided to hit a favourite East…
Assynt err Gairloch blog 2016
“Well this could be the last time This could be the last time Maybe the last time I don’t know.” Once again I find myself finally getting round to documenting this year’s annual Assynt Gairloch fishing holiday whilst the leaves…
News from Star Carr
We’ve been contacted by Shane from Star Carr fishery over in East Yorkshire who advises the following: Please be advised the Starcarr Trout farm and lakes site was sold in March 2016 and we are now the new owners We…
Stu’s gone to Iceland…
Several days ago we sent Stu to Iceland to get some cheap frozen samosas, oven chips and gateauxs for the YorkshireFlyFishing HQ. He did not return within the expected time period and we became rather concerned until the first Tweet…
500 pound pike?
Ok you can probably guess where I’m going with that title! Last weekend I attended an event at Chew Valley Lake organised by the PFFA (Pike Fly Fishing Association) after having being persuaded to join the club by Stu <didn’t…
Chew, Chew, Barney McGrew…
I done tied me some more pike flies, hopefully gonna try them out at Chew very soon. I need to get my string pulled, my last attempt to go fishing was 2 and a half months ago and I…
Dog walkers vs Anglers?
Further to my update on the Embsay there has been a flurry of posts on that page about problems encountered between dog walkers and anglers at this reservoir. Shared spaces are always going to generate conflict sadly but I’d be…
Updated info for Embsay Reservoir
After receiving notification that we had some out of date information on Embsay Reservoir run by Skipton Angling (thanks Graeme) I have edited the page to show latest prices and locations to buy tickets.
Mad dogs and silly bastards
Only mad dogs and silly bastards go out in this weather, but to be fair it didn’t look that bad this morning as I looked at the forecast and the river levels. I was on the Wharfe out near Burley…