My Favourite Winter Grayling Flies
David Southall takes us through his favourite grayling patterns for Winter fishing. From squirmy worms to micro nymphs, some are imitative, some are suggestive.
Tackling Alpine Pocket Water with Big Dry Flies by David Southall
The first time my fishing buddy Steve & I visited the high alpine streams of Austria, in July of 2007, we were overawed by the speed & turbulence of the flows. How does one fish a maelstrom...
Chironomid emergers, midge, small teeny little things
Midge, Chironomids, small-teeny-little-things, whatever we call them, trout and grayling only know them as 'reliable food'. They abound trout streams (usually) everywhere in the UK, and are frequen...
Jeremy Lucas, author of Presentation Fly Fishing and Tactical Fly Fishing talks us through how he ties his most used fly, the plume tip.
Fish Where you Live - Original article in Total Fly Fisher
It’s an interesting concept. Force yourself to only focus on fishing within say, a 15 mile radius.
Micro thin fly lines and cane fly rods are the newest combination since silk fly lines. Rawson and Perrin fly rod builders review our micro thin fly lines.
An Innovative Fly Line & Dry Fly Presentation
An article originally published by the grayling society. David Southall switches from regular dt lines to wf micro thin fly lines to get the presentation he needs to target spooky wild grayling and...
Hunting Big Fish Can Be Frustrating
Trout fishing in the UK, especially on chalk streams, doesn't get any better when you're stalking big, wild brown trout. David Southall fishes Driftfield Beck.
The CdC IOBO Humpy must be one of the world’s greatest dry flies. It is incredibly simple to tie yet unbelievably effective since in various sizes it imitates/suggests a host of insects (Midges, Ap...