Winter dry fly on Grafham
It's mid-December, and Charles Jardine heads to Grafham Water to fish dry fly with Peter De Kremer.
Stickleback diamonds
Mike Duxbury adapts a Minkie to deal with the notoriously difficult problem of pin-fry feeding.
Raise a glass
During the summer heat-wave Colin Macleod discovered a new transluscent Shrimp pattern, using grey glass beads. Typical British summer weather! A raging ...
The balanced Nymph approach
Richard and Colin Bailey chart the evolution of British Columbia's Leech patterns, and the subsequent development of the highly successful 'balanced' Damselfly dressing. ...
Preparing for G-Day
Oliver Edwards equips us with ten patterns he uses for the different stages of the grannom mass-hatch
Cry Wolf
From the onset of summer right through until late autumn, Tomas Kolesinskas turns to a Norwegian pattern which sports a green body
In step with the Riverdancer
Tomas Kolesinskas has a fly which he tied on last spring and fished it right through the season with utmost confidence
The Copper Tom
The Copper Tom is an emerging Tay pattern which bucks the trend on body colour, but still catches the salmon's eye.
My flexible Fiend
Faster currents and deeper lying fish caused Colin MacLeod to experiment this season with a heavier fly based on a Flexi-worm. It has since produced incredible results.