Tying with hot melt glueis not for everyone. The traditionalists will thumbtheir noses at it and subscribe to the traditionalist belief that a flyis not a fly unless its total consists only of twine, feathers and/or fur....
Fd: How were your beginnings in fly fishing?Andy: I began learning to cast when I was just five years old. My father taught me in a field near our home, just 30 minutes from the river Dove in Derbyshire, England. I was...
Fd: How were your beginnings in fly fishing?Marina: -Mother Like Daughter- My parents taught my brother and I the basic skill set of fly-fishing with a single handed rod from the age of around five and we moved onto do...
Once only can I remember seeing red, but lets not go there. Recently I discovered that my local trout see red in a very interesting way. The lochs in my part of the Highlands are acidic; this is from the peat that blank...
The chalkstreams of the south of England may not be the mightiest rivers in the world: they’re not raging torrents, gouging their way through mountains; in places they look almost narrow enough to hop over; they’re n...
Fd: How did you start in fly fishing? Who got you interested in the sport? Charles: That’s an easy one. My father. He was an avid salmon angler who, even in the 1950’s travelled the world for fishing – mostly salmo...
