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wild fishing

  • 1st April 2017·Echoes from a river·

    1 April 2017

    Spring Salmon: Lessons from the Tay

      Spring Salmon fishing can test your mettle, your technique and your circulation. A recent few days on the Tay confirmed all that I knew about [...]

  • 16th January 2017·Echoes from a river·

    16 January 2017

    Stilt fishing in Sri Lanka. Total simplicity.

    A 10-foot stick with a line on the end. Simple. And at the end of the line is a hook, and that hook has been sharpened [...]

  • 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

    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 [...]