*with added spoon hurling A couple of weeks ago myself and Stu managed to squeeze in a session at our perennial banker down in Northamptonshire. Pitsford is about 2 and a half hours down the motorway so it was a…
Pitsford/Eyebrook weekend
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…
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…
Pitsford Pike!
Yours truly having built up a day’s flexi and Stu hankering to wiggle his foot long rubber sex toys in front of some Anglian Water pike combined to form a Monday mission down to Pitsford. You may have seen the…
Ravensthorpe ‘review’
Now then I’ve posted a review of our recent visit to Ravensthorpe reservoir, one of Anglian Water’s fisheries in Northamptonshire, in our Outside Yorkshire section, linky here.
Grafham report 21/09/2013
This weekend I had planned to go down to Cambridgeshire to visit friends and then go onto Brize Norton on the Sunday for an RAF photocall. I decided to go down early on the Saturday and get in a few…
The Tale of Roundhay Flyfishers and the 27 Foot Leader
The Roundhay Fly Fishers were on the move again. As the curtain was drawn back to reveal our latest target, there was an audible gasp – we’d been tasked with striking 2 of the Midlands reservoirs, Ravensthorpe and Eyebrook. I’d…
Anglian Water Reservoirs Weekend Washout!
Last weekend was the annual Roundhay Fly Fishers overnight trout fishing extravaganza. In previous years the club has visited fisheries such as Eyebrook, Esthwaite, Ravensthorpe, Pitsford and Rutland. The normal plan for these weekends involves fishing somewhere outside of Yorkshire…