Fish Tails Blog

It’s a big world out there. I have spent the better part of my life travelling around it and trying to experience as much of the fishing it has to

Fresh or Salt? A question I am often asked, it takes no time to consider the answer, freshwater fly fishing for me. Don’t get me wrong, the idea of wading

November 2012 saw Charlotte Chilcott back on Alphonse with her hosted week. As always, looking forward to whatever the atoll, the tides and fishing gods threw at her. The week

Steffan shares with us how he got into fishing and his first piscatorial memories of sea trout and brown trout, some of which are certainly a little suspect… I had

An extract from “GT – a Fly Fishers guide to Giant Trevally” Early in my saltwater career as I fished around the Caribbean I heard tales of this mad fish

Cosmoledo Season Roundup Part 3 Week 14 saw the return of many familiar faces that have visited Cosmoledo before. George Mabreger started the week with a splendid one metre GT,

Cosmoledo Season Roundup Part 2 Week 8 and 9 of the season was used to give the fishery a bit of a mid-season break. We invited a few special guests

Apart from my constant intrigue to tie and try new fly patterns each season, there is a clear set of dry flies that make up my chalkstream fly fishing box

Cosmoledo Season Roundup Part 1 The first week of the 2019-2020 Cosmoledo season welcomed 10 anglers who were met with testing conditions. However, it certainly wasn’t all doom and gloom

I have been beguiled by fishing since the age of four. There was something about seeing those shapes in the water and wanting to somehow connect with them. I don’t

Whenever I get asked what my most memorable fish was, suddenly visions of multiple fishing trips come flooding back to me. There are so many wonderful moments that I could

The 2020 Rio Grande season is officially over at Villa Maria Lodge, and although cut a bit short, it was certainly a season to be remembered!  We can say, with