Time to fulfil a long-held ambition and fish the magnificent Swale up at Richmond in the Yorkshire Dales. An hour-and-a quarter up the A1 and first stop is the garage that sells the £7 day ticket. The warm weather we’ve been promised hadn’t kicked in yet, and it was only around 13C when I tackled […]
Month: June 2019
And so the annual pilgrimage to the desolate beauty of north-west Sutherland comes around again. The ten-hour drive up to the Scourie hotel allows plenty of time for the expectation to build. Weatherwise the portents weren’t fantastic: cold, wet and windy. Still, you take what you’re given and make the best of it. This is […]
I’m not proud of this and on the scale of angling challenges it rates somewhere near the bottom. But curiosity got the better of me. We were visiting my sister, who owns a glorious 70 acre estate on the Suffolk/Essex border, a mix of pasture and woodland and with two lakes. One of the lakes […]
I thought I’d try and construct a more sophisticated coiled leader for short-range nymphing. I’d previously made one up from some old brown Maxima nylon and it had worked ok but was a bit difficult to see against the dark water. Essentially you make these things by tightly winding a length of nylon in touching […]