A very quick post just to let you see the great job Adrian has done to re-timber my boat. I bought her 18 years ago and she was in poor shape back then (hence the very low price I paid for her). Adrian’s father put a new back board on her for me and despiteContinueContinue reading “Boat’s ready!”
Monthly Archives: February 2024
A well travelled fly
A good friend and regular client, Derek Woods is down in Patagonia at the moment dong a bit of trout fishing. He sent me some snaps of the action down there and it looks like he is having a whale of a time in the 32 degrees heat. Strangely, his most productive fly is oneContinueContinue reading “A well travelled fly”
Ethics of angling technology
My endless rantings about about the injustices of modern life seem to consume me these days. I’m aware this makes me sound like a particularly mean-spirited curmudgeon but I genuinely feel this society we live in is on the wrong path in so many ways. Until recently my moans have been directed towards those outsideContinueContinue reading “Ethics of angling technology”
Curlybums
Known to most anglers as the yelllow owl, I still call those small, brown caddis with an abdomen the colour of lemon curd by their Scottish soliloquy. Curlybums were a great favourite on Loch Leven many years ago, and indeed they may still be for all I know. Summer evenings were when these flies hatchedContinueContinue reading “Curlybums”
Claretbumbler 