Some of my best fly fishing comes during the dog-days of mid summer. All that is needed is a careful choice of where & when to fish.
Black Gnat Dry Fly Imitation for Dance Flies
I find that a size 18 Black Gnat works as well as any other fly when trout are taking the occasional Dance Flies.
Daddy Long Legs - The Daddy of Dry Flies
Dry fly fishing can be exciting when Daddy Long Legs are hatching. David Southall talks us through the best leader for dry fly fishing, when to use the Daddy as a dry fly and if sunken Daddies are ...
Hawthorn Flies & Black Gnats - Terrestrial Flies
Late April is the start of ‘Terrestrial Time’. The 25th of April is St. Mark’s Day, the time when the Hawthorn Fly (Bibio marcii) traditionally appears. Some years there is a glut of these relativ...
Large Dark Olives for dry fly fishing
Grayling have been rising to microscopically small midges & I’ve usually had to drop down to size 30 CdC flies to consistently tempt the fish. This has necessitated the use of soft actioned lig...
400 species of Chironomid. What to use?
It always amazes me how few fly fishers fish with tiny Midge imitations, particularly in winter when Midges are generally the only flies to hatch. There is not a single day in the year that some Mi...
Fly Fishing in Montana, my Nirvana...
On the spring creeks, tributaries of the Yellowstone River at Livingston, (Armstrong & De Puys) we encountered hot, sunny weather with a brisk wind during the middle of the day. Surface activit...
Fly fishing for David Southall is about people. Fly Fishing is less about the catching and it is, for David, about who he meets. Fly fishing in the UK especially has a special meaning for people.
Tenkara fishing with its short, fixed line has taught me a lot about the advantages of fishing at close range. Even before my introductory forays into Tenkara I was aware of many of the advantages ...