| Monday: | Andy Dear |
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| Tuesday: | Paul Arden |
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| Wednesday: | Chris Avery |
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| Thursday: | Martyn White |
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| Friday: | Mika Lappalainen |
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| Saturday: | Viking Lars |
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| Sunday: | Paul Arden |
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Fancy Footwork
Monday, 22 April 2024
“Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player.”
--- Mike Krzyzewski
Making a living from fly fishing
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
It was 28 years ago to the month that I took my first fly fishing (not just fly casting) instructor exam. It was the Salmon and Trout Association National Instructor Certificate (Trout). There I met Ally Gowans who was doing his at the same time too. I seem to remember us being the only two that passed that weekend, but I might be wrong in that.
To begin at the beginning…
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
I don’t want you to get the wrong idea here, dear reader, when I say that many nights my parents would go down the pub on holiday and leave us kids to our own resources. This statement wanders into terrible wilfully neglectful parenting territory. Far from it, my parents were not drinkers in normal life beyond the occasional modest half at the weekend. I’d never witnessed them even remotely ‘merry’, and they cared deeply for us!
On our yearly holidays in the Lake District, they would just love to find a pub though with a fine view across a valley or a lake and order 1 pint of bitter and a half of shandy, and sit on them patiently sipping for an hour and often much more, to savour the view; rather than just gain lubrication, and certainly not for any form of inebriation. It was a means to an end, a fine view, a welcome seat, and crucially at last; some peace and quiet from the back seat warzone of four brats, well three brats, and my sweet suffering sister.
Pressure Control
Thursday, 25 April 2024
It's been a quiet week on the fishing front for me, I got out for an afternoon at the local carp after work the other day. Unfortunately, except for that it's been raining and keeping the rivers a bit too full and dirty for sight fishing. The lack of fishing gave me a chance to top up the carp box, which I've really let go in recent months.
The Adventure Begins
Friday, 26 April 2024
When writing this one we are over Poland, heading our first leg to Istanbul. It has been an insane week and as usual some extra things before leaving from home.
Monday we had last group for this winter season. Ice fishing, we had same group two years ago I think. Great people and good fishermen and women. Last time they were with us I told only thing they need is golden mormyska.
Rods - in plural - it will happen
Saturday, 27 April 2024
At some point most fly fishers will end up owning several fly rod. Some need to have - some nice to have. If you’re exclusively fishing for trout, a 5-wt is all you’d ever need, but if you spend more than a handful of days on a stream, at some point you’ll have the need (or create it) for another rod. Maybe a lighter rod for dries, maybe a heavier one for streamers and sinking lines. And I won’t mention lines again, because that can explode.
Signature Flies
Sunday, 21 April 2024
I’ve been reading a very interesting book that shows the same person’s writing but written with dominant hand, dominant hand with wrist immobilised, non dominant hand, pen gripped with the teeth (Jimi Hendrix) and the pen gripped between the toes…
