Most of my attention on the River Seven lately has been on the new stretch, a tumbling, boulder-strewn frenetic moorland river. Time therefore to see how the lower beat is faring – a more sedate section of the river, in keeping with the gentler contours of the surrounding farmland. The day had a faint nip […]
Month: August 2017
Up to the Duchy section of the Pickering Beck. When I first started fishing this beat around 17 years ago it was challenging jungle – good fun but tricky with masses of bankside vegetation rendering large portions of the beck unfishable. In recent years a lot of work has been done by stalwarts of the […]
Like Livingstone seeking the source of the Amazon (I know, I know but you get the idea), I continued my odyssey towards the top end of the Seven. A nice gentle tail wind and the temperature hovering around 18 degrees. Perfect. I made my way to the last pool I had fished on the previous […]
Boy, the Gods of Angling had some fun with me today. I suppose it was largely my fault and that I should have known better. Here’s the story. I was off to a small stream known to hold some meaty trout, both browns and rainbows (the latter being refugees from a number of nearby trout […]