Category Archives: Trouty things

# No, not one, thanks for asking. A few pulls, one of which I really should have turned into a trout, but my fingers were numb and shaky after fishing through a hailstorm without gloves. # Even on a day … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The subspecies of angler _bloviatus montanus_ might be described from this specimen, writing under the pen-name “Tamarack” in [“Mary Orvis Marbury’s book”:amazon:Mary Orvis] _Favourite Flies and the their histories,_ first published in 1892: bq.. During a residence of ten years … Continue reading →

* Last summer my friend Christer pressed on me “a book of fishing porn”:http://www.westrin.se/bocker/fjallfiske.htm by Gunnar Westrin, which contains some “wonderful”:http://www.flugfiskeinorden.se/jpg/p27.jpg photographs, though I can’t find any on his web site. I learnt from it some interesting things about grayling; … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was down on the river yesterday afternoon and wandered further down than I have ever gone before, through a field of "setaside", which means that the EU pays farmers to leave it wholly wild. The result is mostly nettles, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There’s a short story below the fold that I think I might flog somewhere but everything I write looks like crap to me at the moment, as if my heart had turned to pumice stone. Continue reading →

If I’m unusually stupid tomorrow, it’s because I finally cracked this afternoon and drove up to Grafham to try and catch some trout. No one knew where they were, since there had been winds of 50mph over the weekend (it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

has been electrofished. I know it’s small, but there are at least three trout over four pounds living wild in there, and one, I’m told, over five. Yet there are places you can cross it in Wellington boots, and nowhere, … Continue reading → Continue reading →