The image says it all! You can enjoy everything with Autumn fly fishing: – Brown trout, rainbow trout (big ones too), grayling, pike, river fishing or stillwaters, in autumn you just have to be waterside. We are now at a wonderful time of year, enjoying fantastic river fly fishing for trout and grayling. While the […]
Rivers are always the venues of choice during August. Our spring fed rivers have a strong flow of cool water and plenty of fly life, encouraging trout to feed. Fishing at appropriate time of day with dry flies and nymphs has provided prolific fly fishing, during hatches and falls of spinners and terrestrials. Stillwaters have […]
June fly fishing was dominated this year by a late Mayfly hatch that produced wonderful sport on the rivers and lakes alike. Many clients took their first day fly fishing at this prolific time and enjoyed some great opportunities. Others furthered skills or treated themselves to a guided fishing trip. I nearly fulfilled my ambition […]
Despite low temperatures until the last day in May, fly fishing proved to be good. On stillwaters, hatches of buzzers and olives, plus a good fall of hawthorn flies, meant action at and around the surface was superb. River fishing developed as May progressed, with the best fishing being lunchtime to 4PM. Once fly hatches […]
It’s great to see my prediction from our last report come to fruition. The past 2 weeks have provided stunning stillwater fly fishing, with amazing buzzer hatches. Olive hatches are starting to become more abundant and with warmer average temperatures recently, Spring is starting to catch up. We’ve enjoyed introducing several groups of people to […]
Stillwater fly fishing has led the way during early spring. No surprise really as early spring 2013 has been rather like winter! Having said that, overall fishing has been good. You will find what worked in winter is still working now. By April’s end we will be enjoying great hatches of buzzers, with olives, hawthorn […]
While January and February are as far removed from traditional fly fishing as it gets, it’s important to realise good fishing opportunities exist. Recent weeks have provided periods of hectic sport on stillwaters, with big trout, big pike and good overall catches numbers wise too. With modern outdoor clothing and a mobile approach to fishing, […]
With rivers continually blown out in recent weeks, lakes have offered sanctuary to fly fishers in need of a fishing fix. At this time of year the smaller to medium size stillwater fisheries offer great fly fishing opportunities. It’s really a question of deciding what you want from your fishing, then choosing a venue to […]
With lakes full and great water flows from the springs, fishing continues to get better and better. Midge, late olive and caddis hatches have provided quality nymph and dry fly fishing. The most exciting fishing however is for trout smashing into shoals of baitfish. No matter how long or how much fly fishing you do, […]
Well we are half way through autumn 2012 and fishing has been awesome. We’ve been busy hosting corporate days, stillwater fly fishing lessons and ended the river trout season on a high. The river season on the Derbyshire Wye provided visiting anglers with superb dry fly and nymph fishing. Be sure to contact us regarding […]
