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…
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…
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…
Loch Ken Fiasco
Right so I’m slowly catching up here. Still not even started the annual fishing holiday blog because that is a significant piece of work but I reckon I can box off the tale of woe that was our Dumfries…
Carsington way back in May!
I am so behind with everything, I’m only just getting round to putting up a quick post about the Roundhay Fly Fishers’ outing to Carsington in May. It was so long I cannot remember much about it unfortunately! I was…