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Friday July 30th 2010

‘Where to Fish’ Archives

Video: Fly Fishing in Slovenia

Here is a nice little video that, if you are anything like me, will make you wonder why you have yet to go fly fishing in Slovenia! This water is gin clear, and the fish seem to be readily receptive to a well fished fly. What more could you ask for? In any case, if you can't get there just yet, at least you can enjoy the video!

Video: Fly Fishing with the Mouse in New Zealand

Video: Fly Fishing with the Mouse in New Zealand

This fly fishing video (below) won awards for its design and production. While it is rather flashily put together, you can't argue with the fish in this video - it makes me itch to get to New Zealand and start fishing. There is a section mid-way through which shows the contents of a monster trouts stomach - there are more than 5 mice in [...]

Hereford Fly Fishing Club Celebrates 25th Birthday!

Hereford Fly Fishing Club Celebrates 25 Years After 25 years of god service, Hereford Fly Fishing Club were entitled to a celebration, which is exactly what they had at the Three Counties Hotel. The Club was started in 1983 by Jim Fryer, and has gone from strength to strength: achieving over 250 members at the last count. Anyone interested [...]

Shetland Sea Trout Back in Droves

Shetland Sea Trout Back in Droves

After 20 years of recording terrible catch rates for sea trout, anglers on the Shetland Isles could have been forgiven for giving up hope of catching a sea trout in the Isle's lochs and burns, but two decades of no more than ten sea trout per year were turned on their head in 2007, with a total of 471 caught: nearly 50 times the yearly [...]

Report Claims Salmon Can be Damaged by Construction Noise

The Aberdeen newspaper The Press and Journal reported yesterday that "SALMON could be deafened by the construction noise of the proposed Aberdeen bypass" (in their repot "Salmon at risk from noise, probe told"). The objector to proposed developments in Aberdeen, research biologist Tony Hawkins, claimed that salmon were at significant risk of a [...]

Fly Fishing Iceland – Atlantic Salmon, Flotta River

Here is a video filmed in Iceland's Flotta River which demonstrates three hard fighting Atlantic Salmon which were taken in one day. (more...)