Finally! The barometer has moved, the birds are tweeting and the snow is gone from all but the loftiest peaks. Brought out of deep freeze once again, the team of elderly fly-fishing superheroes known to mortals as ‘The Roundhay…
Tanfield again!
I seem to have dropped off the Roundhay Fly Fishers scope somewhat this year so when an ad-hoc addition to the calendar was scheduled for this week I figured I should make an effort to go. I’ve blogged about this…
Guess the fishery!

Boa constrictor snake loose at Swinsty.
The dedicated yorkshireflyfishing.org.uk snake-watch team has notified me of this story, it is literally hot off the press. Many of you mocked me for funding an entire team of people whose sole purpose is to scour the local press for…
Gloop
I went up to Beaver Dyke last Thursday evening straight after work to meet Phil and Stu. I couldn’t be bothered fishing, choosing instead to take the camera and see if I could capture some action. There were fish moving…
Billing Dam closed?
I’ve had 2 comments about Billing Dam being closed now, so looks like another fly fishery bites the dust. Sounds like it’s becoming a carp fishery.

West Tanfield 18/04/2012
Yesterday was the first outing of 2012 for Sturmgruppe RFF and perhaps predictably the weather was rubbish, a rude contrast to the false spring we had last month! Nevertheless we managed to muster 10 of our number. Myself and Stu…
Beaver Dyke
The shallow end of Beaver Dyke has suffered somewhat! There were plenty of fish moving last night but I spent most of my time plugging away at John O’Gaunts for no reward :-(.

Ugh
Wow I’ve really angered the angling Gods – another blank up at Beaverdyke. However, after speaking with some regulars up there they too have had a rough time of it recently so maybe this isn’t divine punishment for..ugh..well..where do I…