I was pleased to get an invite to be listed by the fly fishing tackle retailers Fishtec on their Fly Fishing Instructor directory, this is me . They are based in the Brecon, South Wales. I am not sure if that’s in the Brecon Beacons but I got lost there once as a boy. I was in […]
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I was caught in a boat at the Lake of Menteith the other evening whilst chasing rainbows. It is early June in Scotland and the last thing that we expect at this time of the year is a severe thunderstorm but we got one. I do not like electricity at the best of times so
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Occasionally I am in the habit of taking a nap whilst fishing but never again after reading this and definitely not in a fur hat. This article appeared in the Daily Telegraph.
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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
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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