A couple of weeks ago at the Milngavie fly dressers we demonstrated hair wing salmon flies as a few of the guys are regular salmon fishers on the Tay and had requested several patterns. If you look into my salmon fly boxes the flies tend to be along a distinct colour theme, orange yellow and black …
The Milngavie fly dressing club goes from strength to strength and its that time of year again when we publish our program and dates. We always seem to have a core membership that remain loyal and others that drift in and out. Some come for a little bit of instruction others to listen to a …
I had an invite a couple of months ago to go and fish the Findhorn we booked and agreed the 13th September. The day before arrived and I began to doubt the sense of driving 3 hours there and back. Nevertheless my host had taken the time and trouble to book the fishing and invite me so …
I always like to visit new beats and bits of river. The other day I had the pleasure of going to Upper Murthly a middle beat on the Tay. I just took the notion and booked it on Fishtay.co.uk a couple of days before. That’s the great think about the internet being able to book …
The year is now two months long and I have not given much thought to posts or indeed fishing. Life seems to have been to busy to fish and certainly not blog. Yes I have been fishing in fact on two occasions on the Tay chasing salmon at Glendelvine, I have been fly tying and doing some …