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No fishing. “Lockdown Part 3:This Time it’s Fuckery”

BobJanuary 5, 2021January 5, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments
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A Wild Camp in Lorn
A Wild Camp in Lorn

A Wild Camp in Lorn

As regular readers of this blog will know, the highlights of my angling calendar were always the annual week’s fishing in either Assynt or Wester Ross in June with mates, followed by a long weekend later in the year in…

BobSeptember 9, 2020September 9, 2020 Scotland, Wild Brown Trout, Wild Fishing in Scotland 8 Comments
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A Lakeland Tarn
A Lakeland Tarn

A Lakeland Tarn

At the moment, a 3 or 4 night mission to the North West Highlands of Scotland is off the cards for various reasons but I simply had to get away for some sort of wild brown trout fishing. The Lakes…

BobJuly 20, 2020July 20, 2020 Hillwalking, The Lakes, Wild Brown Trout 2 Comments
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Perfect
Perfect

Perfect

It’s months since I last went fishing, and watching everyone go nuts catching prolific amounts of enormous brown trout once the lockdown restrictions were eased has been frustrating. As mentioned in my last post a combination of commitments and principals…

BobJune 10, 2020June 10, 2020 River Fly Fishing, Yorkshire Rivers 1 Comment
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Lockdown roundup

“vicarious experienced as a result of watching, listening to, or reading about the activities of other people, rather than by doing the activities yourself“ I’ve not really missed fishing during lockdown. Even if we had been allowed to go fishing,…

BobMay 31, 2020May 31, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments
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Waders…

You may recall that during my last fishing excursion I discovered my nearly-new 5mm Ocean neoprene chest waders were leaking quite badly. No fun in Winter! I weighed up the pros and cons of getting them fixed by the legendary…

BobFebruary 15, 2020February 15, 2020 Uncategorized 2 Comments
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Why are pike anglers such big f*ckers?

There are some fishing trips where no fish are caught that will nevertheless justify a fairly involved write up. This, to be fair, is not one of those. We were both keen to do some deadbaiting (despite conditions not being…

BobJanuary 21, 2020January 21, 2020 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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French nymphing on the Wharfe
French nymphing on the Wharfe

French nymphing on the Wharfe

For pretty much my entire working life I’ve never bothered taking more than a couple of days off over Christmas but the new arrival at Yorkshireflyfishing HQ has prompted a volte-face this year. I took the whole 2 week festive…

BobJanuary 3, 2020January 3, 2020 Grayling Fishing, Yorkshire Rivers 3 Comments
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Down and across – no shame
Down and across – no shame

Down and across – no shame

Another fishing opportunity arose on Monday so I took myself off to the Wharfe for the afternoon. It had been raining but the river levels website suggested it was coming down so screw it, worth a punt. I also wanted…

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Cow Green
Cow Green

Cow Green

I had originally scheduled this weekend for a mission to Wester Ross which in retrospect was a ludicrously optimistic notion with a 4 month old baby at home and important deadlines at work to keep on top of. So, I…

BobSeptember 22, 2019January 3, 2020 Wild Brown Trout, Yorkshire Stillwaters 1 Comment
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Recent posts

  • No fishing. “Lockdown Part 3:This Time it’s Fuckery” January 5, 2021
  • A Wild Camp in Lorn September 9, 2020
  • A Lakeland Tarn July 20, 2020
  • Perfect June 10, 2020
  • Lockdown roundup May 31, 2020
  • Waders… February 15, 2020
  • Why are pike anglers such big f*ckers? January 21, 2020
  • French nymphing on the Wharfe January 3, 2020
  • Down and across – no shame September 26, 2019
  • Cow Green September 22, 2019

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Other websites worth a look

  • North Country Angler’s excellent blog
  • Urbanflyfisher – another cracking blog
  • Fishing with style – angling shop in Leeds – get your Fuller’s Earth here
  • Like pike & predator fishing? Visit River Piker’s website – lots of videos including some great tutorials
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