The year is now two months long and I have not given much thought to posts or indeed fishing. Life seems to have been to busy to fish and certainly not blog. Yes I have been fishing in fact on two occasions on the Tay chasing salmon at Glendelvine, I have been fly tying and doing some …
The Bristish Fly Casting Club contacted us over a year ago now and asked if we could assist in organising a Scottish day well it happened today in Glasgow. About 30 of us gathered in Pollok Park on a bleak September day in the pouring rain but despite the rain we all had a great …
Some say that I might be biased being Chairman of GAIA but I really do believe that we should all take casting lessons if you plan to be a fly fisherman. Having done so you then need time to practice, going fishing is not enough you need to go practice. Fly fishing has a technical requirement similar to a golf stroke, if you wish to …
Raffaele Mascaro is an FFF Master two handed instructor and runs an Italian web site called Speyband. I have been enjoying a series of video clips that he has been posting on YouTube the latest is about piled anchors and bloody l’s something that I suffer from. Pre school, Italian was also my only language but it rarely gets used …
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 …