As regular readers of this blog will know, the highlights of my angling calendar were always the annual week’s fishing in either Assynt or Wester Ross in June with mates, followed by a long weekend later in the year in…
Early trip to Wester Ross
I managed to squeeze in an extended May Bank Holiday trip to the NW Highlands last month with my girlfriend. It was more about enjoying the scenery, having a relatively relaxing few days and soaking up the almost unheard of…
RFF 2018 outing to West Tanfield
We’re into the back end of April and finally a trout fishing post! This Thursday we had the first outing of 2018 for the Roundhay Fly Fishers and as always it was West Tanfield (AKA Tanfield Lodge)where we kicked…
Another weird day on the Aire!
Yesterday was a welcome day off and seeing as the clocks are about to go back I decided to try get the most out of the day by getting out on the BCAA stretch of the River Aire. You…
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…
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…
A pike fly to try
Well call me a fair weather fisherman but bollocks to going out in this weather. Instead I retreated to my man-cave, fired up the heater, got some Planet Rock on the go and decided to tie a pike fly.…
Assynt Blog….wait, no – it’s Gairloch again…2015
It’s October. edit:In fact no it’s now November. The trout season is over, nights are drawing in, leaves are changing colour and falling off the trees and yet there has been no annual fishing holiday blog. Disgraceful. I’ve…
Assynt err Gairloch 2013 Blog
Naked and soiled, I stumble from the blood stained bed, pour myself a Martell and make my way to the window. Leeds. Shhhiit I’m still only in Leeds. Every time I think I’m gonna wake up back in Gairloch…. …