I must confess to be a dry fly addict, generally only turning to subsurface tactics as a last resort. I am also a light-line, delicate presentation addict so rarely fish with lines over 3 weight...
Willow Grubbers in New Zealand
"One very hot, frustrating, day I noticed a couple of good fish sipping deep under some overhanging willow trees. Crawling behind cover to within a few feet of them I could clearly see they were fe...
When fishing the dry fly most of my fish come to 4 very basic patterns; a variant of Jack Tucker’s CdC IOBO Humpy, a simple CdC Shuttlecock, Marjan Fratnick’s F Fly & a basic Elk Hair Caddis ti...
Gammarus imitations will catch fish throughout the year. However, I much prefer to fish the dry fly, but particularly when winter grayling fishing a shrimp pattern is often on my cast.
Driffield Beck - A piece of fly fishing history.
Driffield Beck and its smaller sister, Foston or Kelk Beck are the most northerly chalk streams of any significant size in the UK. The fishing on the Beck is famous worldwide.
I love fishing tiny brooks, so small & often so overgrown that virtually nobody else considers them to be worth fishing.
Italian Casting, Jungle Fishing, Wind & Spooky Trout
Let’s start by looking at the basic principles of the Italian Casting Style as taught by Massimo Magliocco, one of Italy’s top casters.
What about fly fishing foam beetles?
It’s summer & ‘Beetle Time’! It was in the late 1960s that I first came across a beetle imitation being used for trout.
Agapetus Pupae - The Stuart Crofts Imitation
Don’t think it is just small fish that get focused on Agapetus pupae: the biggest fish in the river will come out for this feast.