After 15 years, you would think that you’ve seen and heard it all at a fly fishing event.   From tales of 10 pound Trout lost at the net to filming trophy fish( that would have won a Yamaha Ski Boat ), being landed in the wrong dam……..the disbelief etched on the anglers face to this day gets me chuckling…..fortunately he is now a good friend of mine, so I can still take the piss. […]

Larger than life is what this gathering of anglers truly is.   You expect that in the U.S.A. everything is going to be bigger, from the sprawl of the city to the sheer numbers of visitors that descend on this tourism capital of Florida, by the account of my taxi driver, 3.8 Million people per month.   Just sit down to order a breakfast and your realise that the States has a huge appetite for […]

Only once in a Blue Moon does a weekend’s angling outstrip expectations. And this is made all the more difficult when it’s the benchmark of a TOPS Corporate Challenge.  To state categorically that it was the Party of the year would be like calling the All Black rugby team reasonably good……it was Epic! The four man teams always arrive in fine spirits on the Thursday evening, but this atmosphere seemed to compound every day until the hilarious […]

The first frosts of the season is something worth celebrating from a Winter fishing perspective. It is a time in which the Trout embrace the colder water temperatures and feed a little more aggressively before they switch into spawning mode.   We have started to record minus degree Celius mornings here in the Midlands, with the crisp air ushering in the welcome change. It’s time to check the waders for untimely leaks, dust off those […]