Chalkstream Fly Fishing after the Mayfly
It has been a strange old start to the English chalkstream fly fishing season. The winter had set us up with plenty of rain filling the aquifers and offering clean
It has been a strange old start to the English chalkstream fly fishing season. The winter had set us up with plenty of rain filling the aquifers and offering clean
Having flown from Heathrow in the evening and spent the night in a hotel just a brief 5-minute taxi ride away from Reykjavik airport, I woke up the next morning
There are two stand out fisheries in Iceland when it comes to brown trout and Arctic char: The southern Highlands and Laxardal on the North coast. The first explores to
We are currently in the throws of the mayfly hatch, a special time to go fly fishing on our chalkstream rivers. Like all good things though, the mayfly hatch does
Dry fly fishing for me is my absolute favourite type of fishing because it is so visual and so technically challenging at times. Dry fly fishing for Grayling is even
Although temperatures have dropped from the dizzy heights of last week we can probably expect some further highs over the coming weeks as we head into high summer on the
Chalkstream trout fly fishing does not finish with the end of the Mayfly hatches, indeed as the season progresses the fishing can get better and sometimes more challenging. The main
Andy Jones, visiting Hampshire from Australia, contacted us during the famous mayfly hatches of the southern English chalkstreams looking to fit a day out on the River Test. With luck
Some very cold and frosty nights at the beginning of the month to a blazing heatwave towards the end, the weather in May this year has been one of great
Mayfly Time If any of our upwinged flies could ever be described as pretty it surely must be the little Iron Blue that hatches in May and then again in
At the beginning of May our fly fishing thoughts turn towards the annual mayfly life cycle hatch and what opportunities it might bring. Will we catch the leviathan that has
Springtime fly fishing on the Chalkstreams: It might be any number of things. The cacophony of birdsong at daybreak, the first Cowslip or primrose thrusting through the dead leaf debris,