FEATURES
Professional angling guide Andy Buckley spends a week in Slovenia to sample the stunning rivers and superb fly fishing this country has to offer. It doesn’t matter whether you’re into glamorous long-haul adventures or short weekend breaks, finding fresh angling opportunities is becoming more difficult. For the angler looking for…
Read more...
Read more...
Clark Colman refines his dry-fly techniques to enjoy good early season surface sport on a taxing but a productive river, whose wild brownies can often be found ‘looking up’ right from opening day… As a devotee of modern, light-line, European-style nymphing approaches, it’s not always easy for me to lay…
Read more...
Read more...
Fishing on your lunch break – sounds brilliant and wouldn’t it be awesome if you could do this every day. Fishtec’s Ceri Thomas simply couldn’t handle missing out on the spring hatches... so he started doing just that. For a good few years lunch time angling never even crossed my…
Read more...
Read more...
Veniard - The Harvester Steve Cullen shares The Harvester, which should be all you need to pick off the better early season trout! Having done a lot of my river fishing around the start of the season, because this is usually when the ‘muckle troot’ come out to play,…
Read more...
Read more...
Ben Bangham takes his marabou lures to Albury Estate Lakes to see if the simple approach to catching trout works as well today as it did when he first started fly fishing. On a recent fishing trip, I was having a chat to the editor about articles and what we…
Read more...
Read more...
Glen Pointon relives the day he caught a huge river brown trout from a city river just a short walk from his front door… I have always hunted specimen fish. Even as an eight-year-old sat there with my non-fishing dad, watching the bobbing of a hand-painted oversized perch float, I…
Read more...
Read more...
Recent trends in grayling fishing have focused on flies with tags, flash, bling and pink! Wychwood consultant Carl Nixon goes back to black, much to the liking of the ‘lady of the stream’. Is it a forgotten colour? Do we choose black when all else fails or when certain…
Read more...
Read more...
Ben Bangham steps back in time on a trip to the River Avon where river keeper and angler Frank Sawyer brought us the Killer Bug. There are a few names that are synonymous with fly fishing and none more so in the more modern era than Frank Sawyer. He…
Read more...
Read more...
Simon Robinson has fished over 30 times for England in all disciplines. Here he reveals some of his top tips for practising in competitions on still and running water. Most anglers who fish competitions will also practice for the upcoming match. As with any sport, having a solid game…
Read more...
Read more...
Clark Colman targets ‘magic lies’ on a small, feature-packed urban tributary in the hope of a back-end personal best. I’ve been trying for a 2lb-plus wild brownie from this little river ever since I discovered it some five years ago. I thought I’d cracked it in 2012, after being…
Read more...
Read more...
Flyfisher and engineer Micheal Commons brings us the Thremo-WADE, a wading stick that offers more than our standard ones. For as long as I can remember, people always have something to say about the weather. Hot, cold, damp, windy; perpetual conversation between people and anglers alike. Early season, many…
Read more...
Read more...
