Ken Muter APGAI a Hardy Academy member and I run an annual spey casting course. This years course is on the Tay at Newtyle. We always have a great time and this year if we get rain we should get some great fishing. Details are to be found here . I am never sure why […]
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Lake of Menteith opened today and what a great day it was. Perfect weather, a well turned out fishery and well behaved rainbows. Not always that you can say well behaved about the resident trout at the lake, there will without doubt be days this coming season when I will be cursing them. Lake of Menteith opening day
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I went to the Tay for a day at the salmon, Glendelvine was the beat and weather was good air temperature of around 12 degrees and water a surprising 5 degrees. Surprising because the weather has been superb all week with temperatures in the teens and yet the river level was 2ft 6 inches above normal summer
I have always been impressed with the quality of fly tying materials available from Lakeland Fly-Tying. Today I was in Ulverston, that’s in the southern lakes specifying a new till and on line shop for the National Piping Centre that’s my day job, bagpipes. Lakeland are just along the road and also a customer of CitrusLime. They are the
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Just been to a GAIA weekend in Llangollen on the banks of the Welsh Dee, great location, great weather and company. We were there to make our casting qualifications much more objective so that assessors were all singing from the same hymn sheet. We achieved all that and more it was a great learning experience. I now