Fly Fishing for Mullet in Northern Ireland, by Leslie Holmes
An article by Leslie Holmes APGAI. Mullet!! Ahh, the frustration I hear you say, and on the fly impossible! Bread flake and maggot patterns it has to be; definitely not! I live on the North Coast of Northern Ireland where the River …
Fly Fishing for Trout and Char in Iceland
This is an opportunity to fish several spectacular lakes in the low moorlands of southern Iceland for wild brown trout and arctic char. Here the trout grow to over two kilos, the char to 2.5 kilos, and they are free-rising, often feeding …
A Good Week for John Galvin
The great thing about fishing is that there are always new things to learn or experiences to enjoy. Those of us who know John Galvin has great respect for his abilities and determination as a Sewin and Salmon angler. What you may …
Spinner Patterns for the River Usk
Red Spinner Hook: To suit the hatch. This one is a dry/emerger size 16 Tying Silk: Red 8/0 Tails: Microfibbets white or cream Wings: Siliconised polypropylene or similar. Oliver Edwards Spinner (variant) Hook: Any dry/emerger to suit hatch this is a size …
The Gaula River, Norway – A Salmon River Adventure
An Article by Richard Stevenson. The river Gaula is a fast-flowing, large river, based some 60 kilometres south of Trondheim in Norway and it winds its way through some of the most fantastic countryside I have seen and provides the angler with …
Community Against Drugs Team Get the Fishing Bug
One of the great pleasures in life is being able to give something back to those that have helped you in the past. Well, this is one of those occasions. For those of you that do not realise many of the improvements …
Fly Fishing Techniques for Bass, Pollack and Mackerel
I was invited by a good friend Vaughan Thomas to visit him and try fly fishing for sea species together with another experienced sea fly fisher Alan Parfitt. This was an area of fly fishing completely new to me in that I …
Escape to the Hills, by Alan Parfitt
An Article by Alan Parfitt. We live in an age of superlatives when people of talent are elevated to genius status and those who profess to be knowledgeable are classed as experts. This is very regrettable since it means that with so …
Fishing So Good the Fish Bite Back
Saltwater fly fishing, whether it be for Bass off the coast of Donegal or Marlin in the Indian Ocean is as vastly different from freshwater fishing as cane rods are from the modern high tech Carbon Graphite rods of today. The surge …
Dry Fly on the River Usk
The flies will be subject of a later article. This beauty weighed about 2lbs 8oz and was a cracker of a fish caught off-camera during his first couple of casts in 6″ of water with the fly shown on the video. He …
