Dear Member we have recently received advice from the Angling Trust that some restrictions for Angling have been relaxed. If you live in Wales you are now allowed to travel short distances in your vehicle in order to carryout your daily exercise if it is angling. Full details are of the announcement and appropriate links are [...]
Streamer Fishing On Rivers An article by Ceri Thomas It's well known that anglers in the USA and Europe like to fish streamers. To back this up you will often see trophy shots on Social media, complete with exotically named flies hanging from the hooked jaws of oversized brown trout. Despite the obvious proof that [...]
Key species on the menu for fish in the Usk and Wye catchments An article by Dave Collins The list below is not intended to be comprehensive, and comments made are deliberately brief and for guidance only. Emergence patterns are generalised, can change according to seasonal weather conditions and can be earlier, later or more [...]
A Chinese Puzzle An article by Alan Parfitt I don’t know what stimulus reminded me about this fishing episode the other day but I thought to share an unusual fishing experience from several years ago. My very good friend Dai Parker (now sadly no longer with us) and myself were on one of our biennial [...]
A Black River Story by Alan Parfitt Gwent Angling Society has the good fortune to manage the fishing on about 3 miles of the upper river Sirhowy and a small section of its members have become regular and enthusiastic visitors to this wonderful but almost hidden fishery. The story of the Sirhowy valley and its [...]
The Zlon Dry Fly Materials: Hook: To suit the hatch. On this tutorial I have used an SLD barbless dry fly hook size 14: Silk: White uni thread or 14/0 white sheer Tail: Coq de leon under some of the winging material Body: Dubbing to suit the hatch (i have used flyrite Adams Grey) Wing: [...]
The Quill Bodied CDC Dry Fly: Materials: Hook: Partridge SLD fine dry barbless or similar Silk: White uni thread 70 denier or similar Tail: Coq de leon fibres Body: Stripped Peacock tail herls Thorax: Fox squirrel fibres or alternatively hares ear Wing: 4 X CDC Feathers tied back to back. To view the video [...]
The West Wales Rivers Trust Doethie and Upper Tywi Restoration Projects – a summary An article by Brian Jones. The following is a brief summary of remediation work carried out on the River Doethie tributary of the River Tywi in recent years. The Water Framework Directive criteria indicate that the upper River Tywi in North [...]
Materials Needed: For the Mount Thread: Veevus GSP 30d thread Waddington Shank or Intruder shank length of choice Wire: Hareline Senyo's thin Intruder wire (Colour of your Choice) Eyes: Optional but normally 3.3mm dumb bell eyes Hook: Partridge Patriot size 6 Intruder hook (single) For Tying Rear Dubbing Ball: Loop dubbing colour Kola Gold. [...]
Tying Materials: Silk: 70 denier uni-nylon coloured white Wing: CDC either natural or dyed (4 feathers) Hook: Partridge Emerger size 16 (or size to suit the hatch) Tail: Coch De Leon Fibres Body: Either natural stripped quill from the eye feather from a peacock or stripped peacock herl. Thorax: Fox squirrel or alternatively hare's ear [...]
