For the last few years I have been lucky enough to get an invite to a fly dressing master class that Paul Little runs in the lead up to the British Fly Fair International. There are normally a dozen or so tiers present from the UK and the USA. The USA sent Marvin Nolte and …
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 …
Some say that I might be biased being Chairman of GAIA but I really do believe that we should all take casting lessons if you plan to be a fly fisherman. Having done so you then need time to practice, going fishing is not enough you need to go practice. Fly fishing has a technical requirement similar to a golf stroke, if you wish to …
Just been to a GAIA weekend in Llangollen on the banks of the Welsh Dee, great location, great weather and company. We were there to make our casting qualifications much more objective so that assessors were all singing from the same hymn sheet. We achieved all that and more it was a great learning experience. I now …
I have been away from my blog for a while busy with the odd day’s salmon fishing, off road driving, fly fair at Stoke, GAIA agm at Caer Beris, and becoming their chairman so where do I start. Let’s try salmon fishing my last day of the season was Kinkell Bridge on the river Earn. …