Or was the Trout Fisherman free with T&S? Anyway, I nipped into WHSmith’s today to pick up my usual copy of Busty Northern Housewives when I spied the fishing section and discretely shuffled over with the collars turned up on…

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…

Assynt err Gairloch blog 2016
“Well this could be the last time This could be the last time Maybe the last time I don’t know.” Once again I find myself finally getting round to documenting this year’s annual Assynt Gairloch fishing holiday whilst the leaves…
Thanks Bruce
..for helping me and my mates do what we love best.

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…