I must hold my hands up and confess to dereliction of duty in terms of trout fishing so far this year. Between my developed interest in pike fishing, family issues, training and completing the Fellsman and awful weather I’ve not…
Dog walkers vs Anglers?
Further to my update on the Embsay there has been a flurry of posts on that page about problems encountered between dog walkers and anglers at this reservoir. Shared spaces are always going to generate conflict sadly but I’d be…
Updated info for Embsay Reservoir
After receiving notification that we had some out of date information on Embsay Reservoir run by Skipton Angling (thanks Graeme) I have edited the page to show latest prices and locations to buy tickets.
Tungsten power
Last night I got back to some ‘normal’ fly tying. Tying which doesn’t involve wrapping Christmas tree tinsel around an iron bar and super gluing big goggly eyes on it. Instead I tied up three GRHE variants which I’m rather…
Mad dogs and silly bastards
Only mad dogs and silly bastards go out in this weather, but to be fair it didn’t look that bad this morning as I looked at the forecast and the river levels. I was on the Wharfe out near Burley…
Dear diary…
I’ve just been out to the ‘man cave’ and decided to bring my fishing books back in with me as it’s getting quite damp in there. Amongst the pile I found my old Fisherman’s Record Book which is a…
No Mr Bond, I expect you to dry
Guess what I’m gonna be doing over Xmas! I’ve tied quite a few pike flies but my heads leave quite a lot to be desired, usually consisting of built up thread and then varnish or superglue. I couldn’t really…
A pike fly to try
Well call me a fair weather fisherman but bollocks to going out in this weather. Instead I retreated to my man-cave, fired up the heater, got some Planet Rock on the go and decided to tie a pike fly.…
Assynt Blog….wait, no – it’s Gairloch again…2015
It’s October. edit:In fact no it’s now November. The trout season is over, nights are drawing in, leaves are changing colour and falling off the trees and yet there has been no annual fishing holiday blog. Disgraceful. I’ve…
I ain’t got time to bleed
About 3 weeks ago myself and Stu had a pike flyfishing / lure fishing mission to a favourite big East Yorkshire lake. It’s not an epic tale so I’ll keep the blog post brief. As usual I tried to put…