Features

Adaire Awaits

With the Irish loughs closed for another year, Tom ‘Doc’ Sullivan heads to Adaire Springs, one of just a few stocked small-water trout fisheries in the Irish Republic.
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Autumn Grayling

Many of us wait for the first frosts to start our grayling fishing. Ben Bangham feels that late autumn is the time to make the most of some quality sport.
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Leave No Stone Unturned

GAIA instructor and angling guide John Boon visits the gin-clear rivers of Slovenia, where he comes across the stonefly, a fly he’d previously ignored…
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As summer sails in so to does a range of terrestrials and aquatic invertebrates to the liking of stillwater trout. Kieron Jenkins has two dry imitative patterns to cover those special one-off occasions and a nymph for everyday use…
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Tubing For Wild Trout

Fly fishing explorer Andy Bowman floats where no man has floated before, as he takes his belly boat to the hill lochs of Scotland, where the gods go fishing…
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Keep It Simple - Part 2 - Buzzers

After the success of his simple marabou lures, Ben Bangham sets about looking at the rest of his fly patterns to see if he can adapt the same approach. This month he takes his simple buzzer patterns to Wiltshire’s Manningford Trout Fishery… Last month I wrote about using simple,…
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Two Miles Of Heaven

Clark Colman explores North Yorkshire’s Cod Beck, on the doorstep of Herriot country – where Mother Nature and an in-tune owner allow wild brownies and grayling to flourish and give superb sport. If I asked you to picture and describe a typical north-country trout stream, what would you think of…
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A Suir Thing

Tom ‘Doc’ Sullivan recalls the evening he tackled the mighty River Suir and its tributaries and came across one of its big resident brownies… Come the month of April the Irish flyfisher’s window just gets bigger and bigger. At this stage of the year we should have already had…
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It’s a Small World!

Clark Colman enjoys a short but memorable visit to one of his favourite Cumbrian hill tarns, Small Water, and meets a true Lakeland angling legend along the way. “Difficult of access and often disappointing” was how the Where To Fish guide for 1961-2 wrote of Small Water, an 11-acre tarn…
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Weird Or Wonderful?

Ben Bangham takes his new wacky patterns to Surrey’s Frensham Lakes to see if the trout think they are weird or wonderful… The weird, the wacky and the downright insane. Sometimes you need a bit of this to get by in life. Evidently, though, it isn’t just us that…
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Residents In The Margins

Welsh international angler Kieron Jenkins visits Cwm Hedd Lakes, where he finds some quality resident fish right under his feet… Flies For Cwm HeddFulling Mill Bung and Weighted Blob Squimies Sometimes when you say “small-water fishing” many anglers automatically assume a puddle filled with recently stocked trout and an armada…
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