Mid week, it’s cold and dark outside, best to just hunker down and stare blankly at the idiot box until it’s time to crawl into bed and hope that sleep can bring brief escape from the dead eyed misery of…
Evening session on the Wharfe
This weekend I was mostly supposed to be bobbing around on the North Sea catching ling, cod and scurvy on a boys weekend in Whitby. Instead I was holed up in Leeds with an industrial strength cold feeling sorry for…
More Winter piking
Last weekend the weather seemed pretty much bang on for another attempt at deadbaiting for pike – a couple of adjacent days of cold, hard weather but a bit of intermittent sunshine so we decided to hit a favourite East…
Assynt err Gairloch blog 2016
“Well this could be the last time This could be the last time Maybe the last time I don’t know.” Once again I find myself finally getting round to documenting this year’s annual Assynt Gairloch fishing holiday whilst the leaves…
News from Star Carr
We’ve been contacted by Shane from Star Carr fishery over in East Yorkshire who advises the following: Please be advised the Starcarr Trout farm and lakes site was sold in March 2016 and we are now the new owners We…
Stu’s gone to Iceland…
Several days ago we sent Stu to Iceland to get some cheap frozen samosas, oven chips and gateauxs for the YorkshireFlyFishing HQ. He did not return within the expected time period and we became rather concerned until the first Tweet…
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…
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…