A second session on the new stretch of the Seven on the North York Moors. My aim was to hit the water where I had left off last time and work my way upstream by way of getting to know the river. A cool, overcast day with the thermometer in the car reading only 15 […]
Month: July 2017
Time for a gentle diversion from the serious business of trying to catch wild brown trout. The club has a couple of very pretty ponds in the Dalby Forest close to the North York Moors and I head up to one of them with my young chum Alex, a relative novice. (Having said that, Alex […]
The opportunities for new fishing are relatively few and far between, so when I was given the chance to fish some pristine water on the upper reaches of the River Seven I leapt at the chance. This part of the river runs straight off the North York Moors and is a true moorland trout stream: […]
Up to Staithes, a ridiculously pretty fishing village nestling between the cliffs of the North Yorkshire coast: My pal Rob and I are off for a six-hour boat trip bouncing lead of the bottom of the North Sea in the hope of picking up a fish or three for the plate. If fly fishing is […]
Today I had a cunning plan. Well, two cunning plans in fact, the first being not to forget my waders as I had done on Monday. The second plan was to nip up to the first stretch of our beat on the Seven and winkle out many a wild brown trout with a classically tied […]
My fishing week did not get off to an auspicious start. On Monday I headed off on the 50 minute trip to have a go at the Seven just west of Pickering in North Yorkshire. Ten minutes from my destination I suddenly realised I forgotten to put my flipping waders in the car. Cue Homer […]