In the absence of fishing
The last few weeks have been unusually fishing free for me despite it allegedly being the opening...
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Tag: Dry Fly
The Trout and the Fly
I read with sadness the other day that John Goddard, well known angler and angling author had passed away. A few flies have been named after John, like the Goddards Sedge/caddis patterns. He was a bit of an influence on me in my early attempts at fishing the fly. It’s somewhat coincidental but I found some material on YouTube a few weeks back and was going to post some links on my Media links section but had not got round to it, so this will prompt me.
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4GEE Flies
I have done a lot of fly tying recently and was looking for something a wee bit different to do. I work for EE in my day job and as most people won’t have missed ( in the UK) we have rebranded and launched an LTE data service marketted under the snappy name “4GEE”.
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Dabbling
As I said in my last post activities have been restricted to fly tying recently though I had a spot of treatment this week that hopefully might allow me to get out for a wee while at the weekend, especially Saturday being the last day of the official season. It would be nice to get a last Brownie of the year.
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Hope “Springs” eternal
This week the plan is to try get out and fish a few places I haven’t been to before. Ideally I would prefer to fish from a boat where I can fish seated as standing and walking are a bit uncomfortable right now. However it wasn’t an option today but I still fancied getting out, so where to go? The only local small Stillwater I have not visited so far is Bowden Springs, so I nipped along the M9 for a few hours catch and release.
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