As many of you know I am a member of a Leeds based fly fishing club known as the Roundhay Fly Fishers which was formed when a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t…
Achiltibui solo
To the casual observer it may seem as if I’ve done sod all fishing recently bit this simply isn’t the case. I am however struggling to find time to write the blog. But here, now, chores done, packed lunch…
News from Star Carr
We’ve been contacted by Shane from Star Carr fishery over in East Yorkshire who advises the following: Please be advised the Starcarr Trout farm and lakes site was sold in March 2016 and we are now the new owners We…
Verbose (b)logging
The title is a bit of an IT related pun which I’m rather pleased with but anyway, the relevance is I’ve somehow managed to write a big fat blog post about probably one and a half hour’s fishing and one fish.…
Fish of a lifetime
The Icelandic updates are coming in thick and fast but Oh My God look at this 13lb wild brownie Stu’s dad Martin caught on the fly today, what an absolutely magnificent specimen. It took 15 minutes to land and was 75cm…
More news from Iceland
Stu has sent back another report and it seems he’s having a whale of a time. Just look at this stunning 4 lb wild Icelandic brownie with a tail like a goddamn snow-shovel! Looks like he’s also managed to squeeze…
Stu’s gone to Iceland…
Several days ago we sent Stu to Iceland to get some cheap frozen samosas, oven chips and gateauxs for the YorkshireFlyFishing HQ. He did not return within the expected time period and we became rather concerned until the first Tweet…
Assynt blog 2016
….and by Assynt I mean Gairloch….will be out soon. Soonish. Got back from Scotland a couple of weeks ago and as always it was a brilliant week, this time with the added bonus of fantastic weather. Munros were climbed, trout…
500 pound pike?
Ok you can probably guess where I’m going with that title! Last weekend I attended an event at Chew Valley Lake organised by the PFFA (Pike Fly Fishing Association) after having being persuaded to join the club by Stu <didn’t…
Chew, Chew, Barney McGrew…
I done tied me some more pike flies, hopefully gonna try them out at Chew very soon. I need to get my string pulled, my last attempt to go fishing was 2 and a half months ago and I…