Tag: Hywel Morgan

The Hook-Bender Persuivant

The CDC and Deer hair wasn’t getting a reaction and I went down sizes of fly until I got to a size 18 F Fly. This got me a follow it seemed as I retrieved the fly in wet – I never saw the fish but I had an arm wrenching tug and the line pinged from the water, fly less. The 4lb line had snapped at the fly.

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Drookit on Severn

Before I was even set up James had risen and missed 2 or 3 fish!

It wasn’t long when I started to get some action myself. As the bugs swung round and up on my French Leader and I started to lift I thought I spotted a swirl- or was it just the water vortexing round some rocks? I put the fly in there again, nothing, then once more, this time a take, and a lovely wee summer Grayling of about 25 cms was landed on a pheasant tail nymph.

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Casting with the master

With Hywel Morgan coming up for Angling Active’s open day here in Stirling this weekend, I asked him if he would do me a couple of hours casting lesson today, before his two days of demo’s.

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