Yes, this is still a flyfishing blog but I’ve not done any fishing so until I do, all I can do us tell you about other shit I’ve been up to. A friend I’ve not seen for some…
Few shots from LBA
Day off work today, had mulled over idea of going fishing somewhere but the weather started to turn and I lost enthusiasm so decided to partake in one of my other hobbies. I’m not a “‘plane spotter”. I’m an aviation…
Malham Mission
Not really fishing weather at the moment but I needed to get out and enjoy a bit of the great outdoors (and walk off last night’s curry) so I did a moderate walk in the Dales. Helps keep me…
Belated Happy New Year & welcome to the new look yorkshireflyfishing.org.uk
Myself and Stu have invested considerable time, effort and money over the festive season to move the site over to new hosting and into a format where all content is managed via WordPress. This means I no longer…
Dogshit and Grayling.
Despite a roiling internal array, from the previous night’s curry and booze, I managed 2 hours on my club stretch of the Wharfe this Saturday. The river was lower than I anticipated and…
Lindholme Lakes
Browsing the forums at http://www.flyforums.co.uk I notice that there is once again a trout fishing lake at Lindholme. More information available at the official website for Lindholme http://www.lindholmelakes.co.uk/lakes/
Last night I tied the dinks…
…tonight I tied the Klinks! . They ain’t perfect, consistency is a dirty word in my dictionary, clearly 🙂 but I know they will catch fish so they’ll do. All are on Partridge size 14 Oliver Edwards nymph emerger hooks which seem ideal…
It’s that time of year again…
…when I sometimes tie a few flies to fend of the unending misery that is winter. Winter is coming. Valar Morghulis! Anyway, I tied up some GRHEs and a couple of pink bead head flies. All have tungsten beads and are…
Grayling on the Wharfe
Having had a day out with guide Steve Rhodes the previous weekend, I was still pumped up with enthusiasm and confidence for river fishing. I decided to get down to my usual stretch of the Wharfe and see if I…
A day’s guided fishing on a river
A couple of weeks ago myself and Stu spent a day on a Dales river with Steve Rhodes, long established guide with Go Fly Fishing UK. I’ll keep this short and sweet because I did a much longer ‘guest post’…