A blog I have followed for years is a Hippo on the lawn a recent comment on my blog shows two things , First it tells me Tom the writer was ill and the poor bugger is so confined that he has nothing better to do than comment on this fellow bloggers posting . He is in Angola and obviously suffering from some malady and second he is also suffering from generator and technology issues . We take so much for granted with our reliable mains and even fibre optic speed wifi . Anyway Tom hope you feel better soon and your bank balance stays secure . Hope you enjoyed the glimpse of ( by your standards ) my mundane existence. Here is some pics of my day on Saturday a week on from my first post but weirdly even though the day was colder the years seems to have moved on a bit . Stay safe and try and post a bit more often .
A blog about fly fishing the becks and rivers of North Yorkshire , From the Yorkshire Wolds to the North York moors for brown trout and Grayling...Anything written on the blog that the reader enjoys is purely accidental...
Sunday 21 April 2024
Monday 15 April 2024
At last a rising fish
It has been by all accounts and also by some considerable margin. A depressingly long , wet and miserable winter. There has been no proper winter weather ie hard frosts and some proper snow. We had a couple of bits of the white stuff . But nothing to speak of , Truth is it started to rain around last October and it has hardly let up since . The springs that feed my new chalk stream came up quickly and have stayed up and indeed put the river over the banks and across the fields . I went for a walk along the river a week or so ago , Not to fish but to see what the level looks like . To me it looks like I will be fishing sometime mid may...
Then on Saturday I had my first trip to a brand new stretch of river, After having an introductory chat to the guy who runs the little syndicate I wanted to give it a whirl. The stretch is a couple of miles of very wild unstocked interesting upland stream. Challenging wading but delightful at the same time . There will be no big fish but first impressions were that there will be plenty of fish. A small light rod in my case on the day was a 6ft 9 inch light bamboo job. So with that and a wading staff clutched tightly I set of ..
A small bead head on a long leader would have been an obvious choice but the reel I had with me had a silk line and a furled leader. So not ideal. So the usual 4ft of tippet of the furlie was replaced with 8ft and I started prospecting in likely looking seams and pockets with a 3mm size 16 beadhead nymph. plucks resulted with a finger sized sprat that dropped of then I had one slightly bigger .
Constable Wallop Brook
I picked this rod up at the Grayling Society Auction at the last Symposium. What a cracking little rod !!! . I am getting increasingly fond...
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A constant fascination for me is the variation of colours that the Brown trout in the local streams exhibit, even within a single stream t...
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A few weeks ago I managed to leave behind my normal CDC floatant when I went out fishing . I have been using Miracle float for the last cou...
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As the autumn leaves start to fall and been out in the woods with the dog reminded me that once again it is Fungi season. As I am trapped in...