A Day on the River Wye for Grayling
Just before Christmas 2005, I got a phone call from Alan Parfitt to the effect. “I am going stir crazy and I have to get out away from Christmas shopping lists and jobs to be done before the festive season starts. Let’s …
Salmon Fishing on the Magaree River
An article by Graham Anthony. Having experienced the delights of fishing for Pacific salmon in and around Vancouver last year, I decided that this year’s adventure would be for the predictably more challenging Atlantic salmon of eastern Canada. Looking at the map did not …
Venezuelan Tarpon
Close your eyes and imagine – You wake up at half five and it’s raining hard with strong winds blowing all around. The sea looks very angry. What do you do? That’s right, you head straight back to bed until …
Return to the River Tweed
I returned to the Tweed, one bright summer day. It was in August this time and not in May. The magic was there and so was the fish and my longing to fulfil a really great wish of catching a salmon, a …
Tweed Magic
An article by Sally Pizii, Salmon and Trout Association, Level II Coach co-ordinator. It was a chance of a lifetime, a day’s fishing for the king of all fish, the salmon, on the Tweed. I had spent the previous day having a conducted tour …
A Trout Fly Fisher’s Dream
Highway to Paradise – Alberta’s Forestry Trunk Road As big as Montana and Wyoming are combined the Canadian province of Alberta can only be classified as huge. A large proportion of its vastness is covered with the remote inaccessible northern boreal forests …