The journal

2016

  • 7th December 2016·Echoes from a river·

    7 December 2016

    Salmon fly lines. Why so complex and confusing?

        I only picked up a salmon rod about 10 years ago and having bought my first rod a 14 foot Sage TCR weight 9/10, [...]

  • 8th November 2016·Echoes from a river·

    8 November 2016

    Float, Centrepin and the River Frome

    The River Frome is a special river rightly famed for the size of its Grayling and home to fabulous wild brown trout. In its pristine chalk [...]

  • 8th November 2016·Echoes from a river·

    8 November 2016

    And I wait..and wait

    I like Barbel fishing. I am just not very successful at it. I came late to Coarse fishing and having spent most of my life fly [...]

  • 8th November 2016·Echoes from a river·

    8 November 2016

    New Zealand: Myths, magic and common sense.

      I have been fortunate enough to have fished some of the most exciting trout locations both in the UK and further afield. The wind swept [...]

  • 8th November 2016·Echoes from a river·

    8 November 2016

    Wild trout in New Zealand

    There is nowhere on earth quite like New Zealand, and nowhere in my experience as exciting, as dramatic and as compelling a place to fish for [...]