16 March 2022
12 March 2022
You Bastards!
Contemplating the state of our countryside and its wildlife. Dealing with the sorrow of environmental loss. Hoping and doubting.
11 February 2022
Zamalek and Butter Beans
The nuances of fishing a dry fly in fast water, and strange breakfasts.
31 January 2022
25 January 2022
Consistency part 2: The veritable machine
Consistent fly-fishing…maintaining confidence in poor conditions and right to the end
19 January 2022
Consistency Part 1 : The University of Purple
In recent years I have been re-reading some books on the topic of fishing the chalk streams and the limestone creeks (UK and USA respectively), and my attention was drawn to why these places were and are, such universities of flyfishing thought. It relates to the fact that with the slow flow, unruffled surface, consistent water temperature, and clean water, they get regular and to some degree predicable hatches. It also relates to the fact that fish don’t have to expend a lot of energy to swim forward or up, to sip a miniscule fly. Added to that, the water
16 January 2022
Fifty Two sits well with me
Last year around this time, I started a little “side-page” here on Truttablog in which I share my local fishing conditions. Not catches and flies and techniques mind you. Just water temperatures , which streams are blown out, which rivers are low, and the like. And then also just the ones I happen to know about, or have crossed in the last few days, or which friends have told me about. It is an irregular and perhaps slightly unpredictable thing, because my travels are erratic and unpredictable. The result is a little bohemian, and certainly not something you can rely
26 December 2021