I made the grade, the Advanced one: after a lot of practice and some intense coaching it all came together in the grounds of Chatsworth House!

“It seemed sensible to combine a trip to visit family in Yorkshire with a pre-season [17th March] social event for one of the clubs I belong to up there, Kilnsey Angling Club. I offered to hold a casting clinic for interested parties. The membership was canvassed, several common topics were requested and on the day […]

These moorland spate rivers, whether in the north, southwest or highlands offer spectacular scenery and fishing when conditions are on your side.

This is a little taster of the sort of trouting I really enjoy, this from May 2023 in the far north west of Scotland. 

Just five minutes walk down the road we have a gravel pit dug in the 1920’s, its now a prime carp fishing venue, however in the depths -and shallows come February and spawning time- pike lurk which are great fun to catch on outlandishly garish concoctions of tinsel and the like.

Out with local guide Stewart Yates A day of great highs and lows, a day of specimen hunting that saw six ‘good’ trout on the end of the line, three of which ended up in the net. Luckily this one was the biggest, best AND last fish of the day. So a walk [yomp] back […]