Not really fishing weather at the moment but I needed to get out and enjoy a bit of the great outdoors (and walk off last night’s curry) so I did a moderate walk in the Dales. Helps keep me…
Belated Happy New Year & welcome to the new look yorkshireflyfishing.org.uk
Myself and Stu have invested considerable time, effort and money over the festive season to move the site over to new hosting and into a format where all content is managed via WordPress. This means I no longer…
Dogshit and Grayling.
Despite a roiling internal array, from the previous night’s curry and booze, I managed 2 hours on my club stretch of the Wharfe this Saturday. The river was lower than I anticipated and…
Lindholme Lakes
Browsing the forums at http://www.flyforums.co.uk I notice that there is once again a trout fishing lake at Lindholme. More information available at the official website for Lindholme http://www.lindholmelakes.co.uk/lakes/
Last night I tied the dinks…
…tonight I tied the Klinks! . They ain’t perfect, consistency is a dirty word in my dictionary, clearly 🙂 but I know they will catch fish so they’ll do. All are on Partridge size 14 Oliver Edwards nymph emerger hooks which seem ideal…
It’s that time of year again…
…when I sometimes tie a few flies to fend of the unending misery that is winter. Winter is coming. Valar Morghulis! Anyway, I tied up some GRHEs and a couple of pink bead head flies. All have tungsten beads and are…
Grayling on the Wharfe
Having had a day out with guide Steve Rhodes the previous weekend, I was still pumped up with enthusiasm and confidence for river fishing. I decided to get down to my usual stretch of the Wharfe and see if I…
A day’s guided fishing on a river
A couple of weeks ago myself and Stu spent a day on a Dales river with Steve Rhodes, long established guide with Go Fly Fishing UK. I’ll keep this short and sweet because I did a much longer ‘guest post’…
Lockwood Beck
Last week was surely one of the most beautiful autumnal weeks this country has ever seen as spanking hot temperatures and blazing sunshine rubbed shoulders with glorious fall colours. It was clear to myself and Stu that we had to…
Last crack at the browns!
I managed to get up on Beaverdyke tonight for a couple of hours. It feels like I’ve done sod all fishing since Scotland so I really had to get up there, especially as the weather was so nice. Beaverdyke looked…