This summer has quite possibly been the worst I’ve ever experienced in terms of rain, and that, coupled with moving (and renovating) a house has severely cut down my bank time to absolue zero.

Obviously, we fish in water, so rain isn’t a massive problem, indeed, a lot of the elder guys I learned fishing from used to swear by a river in speight. The only problem, I find, is when the river is in speight and its still raining. I don’t enjoy coming home soaked to the skin and freezing cold.

So now the nights are drawing in, and the house only has a couple of curtain rails to fit up, I’ll have a bit more time to spend lazing away those cold dark evenings, now the clocks have gone back, sharing stories about fly fishing.

I might even get out for a bit of grayling fishing every week or so on some of the fine rivers of Northern England. January sees the start of the salmon season for those keen hardy anglers – I’m yet to make my mind up whether or not I can legitimately ever class myself in that select bunch – and we might get out for a go at those early springers.March, however, is usually much more comfortable for fishing.

I may even get to a small stillwater or two to cast a line at some wintering rainbows.

If and when I do, I promise I’ll report back.

In the mean time, I’m going to try to share fly-tying tips, techniques and tricks as well as more general fishing tales from the past (I do have quite a lot of photographs kicking about too to help the stories along).

Oh, and at some point I’ll be changing the appearence of this website to stop it looking quite so futuristic and robotic and to allow for more liberal use of those photographs.

See you next time.

Tight lines.

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