I have a grandson and am beginning to wonder if he will ever be able to fish for salmon in the way that I have and in the way the generation before me did. I can recall having conversations with Reg Rihgyni famed for the book he wrote about Grayling fishing and also “Salmon Taking …
For the last few years I have been lucky enough to get an invite to a fly dressing master class that Paul Little runs in the lead up to the British Fly Fair International. There are normally a dozen or so tiers present from the UK and the USA. The USA sent Marvin Nolte and …
The other day I had the pleasure of a days salmon fishing on the famed Lanrick beat of the River Teith. Lanrick is just upstream of Deanston famous for its distillery. The Teith itself is a great salmon and sea trout river with the added bonus of being just 40 mins from Glasgow and …
A couple of weeks ago at the Milngavie fly dressers we demonstrated hair wing salmon flies as a few of the guys are regular salmon fishers on the Tay and had requested several patterns. If you look into my salmon fly boxes the flies tend to be along a distinct colour theme, orange yellow and black …
I had an invite a couple of months ago to go and fish the Findhorn we booked and agreed the 13th September. The day before arrived and I began to doubt the sense of driving 3 hours there and back. Nevertheless my host had taken the time and trouble to book the fishing and invite me so …