Hawker-Overend Fishing
The River Conwy at Betws-y-Coed proved to be an excellent place to kick-off this year’s night time sea trout fishing season. This article reviews where we fished for sea trout and how I got on with my mate Tim..
This July fishing report covers my fly fishing activities on the Welsh Dee. I’ve caught my first sea trout of the season and some lovely trout and grayling. A few lucky anglers have also caught salmon.
June fishing report for the River Ribble and Welsh Dee. Covering my fly fishing efforts for trout, salmon and sea trout; and a general update on notable fish caught by other anglers.
Lockdown has eased and it was wonderful to go fly fishing again on local rivers &. stillwaters. May’s fly fishing diary covers trips to the Welsh Dee, River Ribble, Grizedale Lea and Rumsworth reservoirs.
A break in the bad weather allowed me to squeeze in a fly fishing trip to the Afon Llafar near Bala with a friend. We’d not fished this river before but I’d heard that after a flood fly fishing for grayling and trout can be good…
After Christmas I was invited to grayling fly fishing at Rhagatt Hall. The fishing was hard work but we managed to catch a few beautiful grayling on nymphs fished near the river-bed
My friend Tim wanted me to help him catch his first Welsh Dee grayling on the fly. Therefore, he invited me to go grayling fishing at Rhagatt Hall. It turned out to be a great day on the river, with plenty of grayling…
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…
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
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….
A fly fishing trip to Llyn Brenig with a friend produced some beautiful rainbow trout and blue trout.
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
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.
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
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,
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
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
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.
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
There is some great River Ribble grayling fishing on Wigan Anglers beat near Grimsargh