Just a quick confirmation that our fly dressing club in Milngavie has restarted for the winter this is the program. We have a core of regulars who sit and talk fishing, every third week we have a demo. I did one last week all about fly bodies and quickly realised that I could have done …
I was at the BFFI 2011 in Stafford this weekend on the GAIA stand what a great weekend and informative. It started on the Friday when I attended a workshop run by Paul Little what a great day that was. Tying in the company of Stack Scoville and Marvin Nolte from the USA, both are …
Paul came to the Milngavie Fly Dressers last evening and gave a demo. Always a delight to watch him tie and font of knowledge about all things trout fishing. How he keeps being original and writing for trout fishing mags I will never know. I asked the question and the answer was simple “go fishing as often as you …
I have always been impressed with the quality of fly tying materials available from Lakeland Fly-Tying. Today I was in Ulverston, that’s in the southern lakes specifying a new till and on line shop for the National Piping Centre that’s my day job, bagpipes. Lakeland are just along the road and also a customer of CitrusLime. They are the …
What have I let myself in for I have agreed to tie flies for 2 days at the British Fly Fair in June 2011, on the GAIA stand. I am sure that I was invited as the current chairman of GAIA and not for my tying skills. I now need to start thinking about what …