I’ve been holed up most of Winter with various injuries and ailments going increasingly round the bend. However last weekend I was finally fit and well enough to do something fishing related but alas the rivers were bollocksed. However…
Assynt…err..Gairloch blog 2017
Last year’s annual fishing holiday blog post kicked off with something about how I’d left it late, the leaves were starting to fall and the fishing was season coming to a close etc but I did at least have…
Czech Nymph v French Nymph
Hot on the heels of last Wednesday’s evening with the FDG and Matt Eastham I found myself freshly enthused with fly fishing vigour and up to my waist in the Wharfe on Saturday. It was a close run thing mind,…
Bloody big pike!
Evening folks. Still not even started this year’s annual fishing holiday blog but in the meantime here’s a quick post about a pike fishing trip with Stu last weekend which resulted in me catching my biggest ever pike! It is…
Applecross solo
A solo visit to the North West Highlands in August is now pretty much a nailed on annual tradition for me. It means that I still have something to look forward to after the annual week long fishing holiday in June and…
Assynt blog 2010 redux!
Whilst I am working my way through the Herculean task of amending every photo through the whole website I noticed that many of the photos on the 2010 Assynt blog were quite dark, I must have had some calibration issues…
Quick catch up….
Ok I’ve got a lot of blog writing to do. There’s the annual fishing holiday (yes, we managed to have one – picture above taken on one of the days out!), a trip to the borders for Stu’s 40th,…
Evening session on the Wharfe
This weekend I was mostly supposed to be bobbing around on the North Sea catching ling, cod and scurvy on a boys weekend in Whitby. Instead I was holed up in Leeds with an industrial strength cold feeling sorry for…
Early season pike fly fishing
After boxing off a load of chores on Saturday I had Sunday free to do as I pleased which meant I could go fishing for the first time in ages. Stu wanted to have a crack at the pike…