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…
The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui
I was up in Aviemore last month for a spot of Winter Munro bagging and general Highland tomfoolery. As always I ended up buying a couple of books whilst I was there and am currently working my way to the…
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…
Fly vs maggot
Just a quickie. Way back in December myself and Stu had a few hours on the Wharfe targeting Grayling. We weren’t exactly up at the crack of dawn but it was early enough to make dragging my ass out of…
Sitting in a chair hoying dead fish into a lake
As must be painfully obvious to you all by now I don’t just fly fish for trout. I also teeter on the edge of pike fishing addiction. This esox-obsession led me to attend a charity pike fishing match for members…
Annual fishing holiday 1998 – Moffat blog!
Aye, you read that right, I’m blogging an annual fishing holiday from 18 years ago! It struck me whilst writing up this year’s fishing holiday that I could use my old fishing diary and photos to make some kind of…