The Real Threat to your Fishing!!
A Real Threat To Your Fishing Forever If you are an angler who fishes in Wales, whether occasionally or it is your main pastime, I have to tell you it is all under threat. This [...]
Comments from Across the Sea Part 1
Comments from Across the Sea Part 1 An article by Lars Mehl Lars Mehl Introduction: I´m from Denmark and in total I have been fishing now for more than 50 years. I have [...]
Dark Olive Wet Fly
Materials: Hook: Varivas 2400 Wet size 14 or similar wet fly hook Silk: Primrose yellow 8/0 wispa Tail: Dyed Olive cock hackle Body: Stripped quill feather varnished Hackle: Tied in as a beard cock [...]
Greenwell Spider
Materials: Hook: Partridge spider hook size 14. It can be tied on 16's and 12's as well if desired. Silk: Pearsalls Primrose Silk waxed with dark cobblers wax. Rib: Fine gold wire. Hackle: Furnace [...]
March Brown Dry Fly
The March Brown Dry Fly Materials: Hook: Partridge Patriot Fine Dry (SLD) size 12 or 10 Silk: Primrose 8/0 wispa Tail: Brown micro fibbetts Rib: Brown 3lb maxima Body: A 2:1 mix of March [...]
March Brown Wet Fly
Materials: Hook: Varivas 2410 wide gape or any wet type fly hook size 10 or 12 Silk: 8/0 primrose wispa Tail: fibres from a partridge tail Rib: silk floss which has been spun Body: [...]
Know your fish food Part 5- Yellow May Dun
Yellow May Dun( Heptagenia Sulphurea) There was a time where I wouldn't have thought of using a pattern to imitate this fly. However how times have changed. This fly has become very important to the [...]
Know Your fish Food Part 4-The Olive Upright
The Olive Upright (Rhithrogena Semiclorata) A very important food source for both trout and grayling on the Rivers Usk and Wye This insect is a very important food source for the River Usk and Wye [...]
Know Your Fish Food Part 3-The Iron Blue
Know your Fish Food 3 The Iron Blue (Baetis Pumilis) This is the one fly that likes the cold and will hatch in the colder days of spring from lunch time to early evening during [...]
Know your Fish Food Part 2 The Large Dark Olive
One of the first flies to show on the river in any numbers and an important food source for both trout and grayling. All the photographs sen below show both male and female insects at [...]
Michael Wade – A Man of the River
Dr Michael Wade Dr Michael Wade There are a number of people that we meet or hear of that have a profound effect on the rivers we fish and often they go unseen or unrecognised [...]
Know your Fish Food Part 1 The March Brown
Dr Michael Wade. This article has been put together with the kindness and generosity of the family of the late Michael Wade. I should explain that Michael was a GP in Risca and was interested [...]