And so at long last the trout season begins. With a slight uplift in temperatures it’s off to Pickering Beck for the first crack. This time of year is inevitably a struggle. The water looked ok, but not at its finest given the lack of greenery. Selected the 7ft rod with a 3wt line carrying […]
Month: March 2017
The sun shone and the wind dropped for the final day of the coarse season so I popped down to the river. Water was still high after all the recent rain but crucially was falling. I had fished it a couple of times over the past week or so but it was higher and the […]
Another forlorn trip to Sandsend. A lovely day and a surprisingly high sea with a fair old swell on it. Arrived around 3 pm. In the distance a sunlit Whitby was magnificent: The sea pulled and jerked at the rod tip with some violence, making bites all but impossible to discern. I reckon I got […]