Fishing cottages: a photo essay
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I can honestly say that this was the first time in my life that I sat in a restaurant eating Sunday breakfast and filming a feeding Trout with my phone. Bacon and eggs. The Itchen. Winchester. 2019.
These little fellows have been hungry for a dry fly of late!
A little reverse tied midge.... Tied in memory of Roy Christie. I like that it helps direct a sunk tippet and that the technique allows short lengths of Coq de Leon hackle.
Spring is so varied around here. This was taken 5 years ago almost to the day. It was a colder, drier season than the one we are in now. And it had snowed two days before this picture was taken. I had been fishing for a week... moving up from the Bungalow to the Berg. It was heavenly.
Fun on the dry fly.
Full clear rivers and cool weather... These conditions are not frequently encountered.......
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Oh to be at Gateshead or Branksome for a while!
December 12, 2016 at 3:29 pm
A great looking series of cottages. I love the variety of cabins and cottages that get used in pursuit of fish.
December 12, 2016 at 2:03 am
Hi Andrew
What an interesting and novel post. Well done! It’s interesting and maybe also a sign of a well spent life in fly fishing, but I recognise so many of these gems. The cottage on Vrederus, Branksome, Willow Cottage on the Isted’s and ‘Honeymoonhuisie’ as Carien calls it, on Gateshead. But there are many I don’t know that by the look of them I rather wish I did!
Kindest regards
Tom
December 11, 2016 at 9:03 pm
Thanks Tom.
As I put the pictures together I was puzzled that there are some I visited that I never thought to photograph, and I resolved to put that right.
We should put together a meet up at Vrederus some time…half way…:)
December 15, 2016 at 1:53 pm
A wonderful, winter with snow, Sunday morning meditation!
December 11, 2016 at 5:41 pm