Almost there, few days to go. Assynt 2012 is about to get underway. Sweet Christmas where are the years going?! Anyway, I’ve tied up a few stalwarts and a couple of new and untested flies as a token gesture towards…
Gloop
I went up to Beaver Dyke last Thursday evening straight after work to meet Phil and Stu. I couldn’t be bothered fishing, choosing instead to take the camera and see if I could capture some action. There were fish moving…
A loch somewhere..
A couple of weeks ago myself and several members of the Yorkshire Fly Fishing Tech 9 Crew Rasclarts went off on another Scotland mission. We revisited a scenic loch we’ve been to before which has the added benefits of…
Coniston Hall 5th May
“Gentlemen, this is trip 2, multiple anglers, multiple boats. Your training is half over. The competition for the RFF Trophies remains tight. First place, Iceman…” Anyway. The weather had been shit for the past week but on the day of our visit…
Billing Dam closed?
I’ve had 2 comments about Billing Dam being closed now, so looks like another fly fishery bites the dust. Sounds like it’s becoming a carp fishery.
Big Beaver Dyke Browns!
As well as the brown trout in John O’ Gaunts, we know there are also some big naturalized browns in Beaver Dyke reservoir because one or two show up in the catch returns every year. To add to this, at…
West Tanfield 18/04/2012
Yesterday was the first outing of 2012 for Sturmgruppe RFF and perhaps predictably the weather was rubbish, a rude contrast to the false spring we had last month! Nevertheless we managed to muster 10 of our number. Myself and Stu…
Keep the updates/news coming in please!
I’m starting to get a steady flow of bits and pieces of news, updates, reports on recent fishing trips etc posted as comments on some of my reviews or blog posts. This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted,…
An Easter treat
This Parachute Adams variant WILL catch you fish, providing you use it at the right place at the right time..naturally :-). I’ve caught a sh*tload of rainbows on it at Beaver Dyke but also had plenty of success with it…