Beautiful salmon for a lucky few on the Welsh Dee
Welsh Dee fishing report – during the last two weeks of the salmon fishing season, a few beautiful salmon have been caught by a lucky few…
October 18, 2019
Fishing for reliable grayling on the wonderful Welsh Dee
Fly fishing for reliable grayling was my focus on my last two fishing trips to the Welsh Dee. On the first trip, I showed a couple of friends how to fish the Top Pool on the Llangollen-Maelor’s upper beat. How did we get on…
September 20, 2019
A Flounder on a Sea Trout Fly
Salt water fly fishing at Arnside in Cumbria I went to the Lake District at the weekend to celebrate my dad’s birthday with the family. While there I went fishing at Arnside with my brother. At Arnside, there is a low water estuary lagoon, by the railway viaduct, where you
August 27, 2019
What has happened to the salmon on the Welsh Dee
During mid-August I spent three long days fly fishing for salmon on the Welsh Dee at Llangollen with friends. The river and weather conditions were perfect for salmon fishing but what did we catch?
August 20, 2019
Fishing with new friends at Rhagatt Hall on the wonderful Dee
I had a lovely, productive evening fly fishing the Rhagatt Hall on the wonderful Dee for grayling and trout with a couple of friends. See how we got on….
July 15, 2019
My first fishing trip to beautiful Brenig
A fly fishing trip to Llyn Brenig with a friend produced some beautiful rainbow trout and blue trout.
July 7, 2019
How did my fishing holiday on the beautiful River Spey in Scotland pan out?
After the long drive to Grantown-on-Spey from Bolton, my first stop was to admire the River Spey from the Old bridge. Its level had started to fall after Saturday’s spate, which was an encouraging sign for Monday. Fly fishing the River Spey at Grantown. Overnight the wind had picked up
June 12, 2019
Out fly fishing for beautiful trout on the River Alwen
My first fishing trip with friends to catch trout on the River Alwen turned out to be a great success. I caught 3 beautiful wild brown trout were caught on the dry fly, my son has a couple and Simon had a trout few too.
May 17, 2019
Fly fishing at Stocks Reservoir – A rainbow trout Red Letter Day
At the start of May, I treated my son, George, a days fishing at Stocks Reservoir fishing trip as part of his birthday celebrations. The fishing at Stocks Reservoir had been great for the last few weeks and with the weather forecast for a breezy, overcast day we were optimistic
May 16, 2019
Midland Fly Fishers – Helping a friend catch his first fish on the Welsh Dee
Fishing Midland Fly Fishers beat of the Welsh Dee I have access to fish Midland Fly fishers beat of the Welsh Dee near Glyndyfrdwy, through Llangollen-Maelor exchange ticket scheme. Despite this, I rarely fish this beautiful beat, which is reported to hold some good brown trout and grayling. This year,
April 20, 2019
Stocks reservoir special – a day out fishing for amazing rainbows
While waiting for the Welsh Dee to recover from last week’s major flood, I treated my son, George, to a fly fishing trip to Stocks Reservoir in search of rod-bending rainbow trout action. I also need to get some distance casting practice in before next week’s trip to Cuba. Last
March 23, 2019
Airflo Euro Nymph line – How did it perform grayling fishing
At Christmas, I treated myself to an Airflo Euro nymph line which is a specialist fly line for short-range nymphing (Czech and Euro nymphing) because I wanted to see if it would help improve my fishing results on the Welsh Dee. A Google search identified a number of specialist lines
February 7, 2019
New Bling Spider: How did it fish on the beautiful Welsh Dee
Recently I’d read an interesting article on tying and Bling spider fly patterns. The initial fly fishing results were very encouraging when fished on the Welsh Dee at Llangollen.
January 12, 2019
Successful fishing trip high on the beautiful Welsh Dee
In previous years, I’ve fished the Bala & District AA (BDAA) beat of the Welsh Dee below the bridge at Llandderdel (see the following map); especially, when the river is high at Llangollen. I mentioned this to my friend Alan, who had never fished the upper Welsh Dee, and he
November 28, 2018
Great River Ribble grayling fishing beautiful
There is some great River Ribble grayling fishing on Wigan Anglers beat near Grimsargh
November 9, 2018
Salmon Guiding Success on the Welsh Dee
A couple of salmon were caught on Tuesday but most anglers were having a tough time even thou the river was in good condition for salmon fishing. I agreed to do some salmon guiding for Ludwig but how did we get on…
October 8, 2018
How to catch grayling in the heat of summer on the Welsh Dee
I’ve been asked for advice on how to catch grayling on the Welsh Dee during this prolonged period of hot and dry weather. Therefore, in this post, I will share my approach to summer grayling fly fishing.
July 9, 2018
My new Orvis Clearwater Switch rod was christened with a beautiful Welsh Dee trout
The salmon season on the Welsh Dee opened on Friday 3rd March, which this year coincided with high spring tides. Therefore, on Saturday I was keen to see if any springers were making their way into the system on the recent high water and test out my Orvis Clearwater Switch
March 4, 2018
Grayling fishing the River Tweed at Peebles
Fishing the River Tweed at Peebles for grayling has been on my to-do-lit for a while because on my previous trips to Scotland in winter the river has been unfishable. After a spate earlier in the week a dry spell of weather moved in from the East, which allowed the
February 25, 2018
River Tay salmon fishing: A great holiday that started with me catching my first Tay salmon
During this River Tay salmon fishing holiday, I caught my first Tay Springer while fly fishing on the Lower Kinnaird Estate beat. The salmon was caught in the Guay Pool.
April 12, 2017