Sunday afternoon at Graiglwyd Springs in North Wales I am very lucky where I live only a shot drive to Llyn Brenig but as the winter comes, I focus more on the small waters the 2 I try to fish regular are Graiglwyd Springs and Tan-y-Mynydd. This afternoon I fancied a few hours at Graiglwyd Springs the weather looked great with the sun shining. I arrived at the fishery just before 12 and the fishery was very busy with 14 fishing...
I've fished Eyebrook for pike for the past two seasons. The place has some amazing fish,well worth catching with last year seeing a fish bottom some scales out at 40lb! Having only being able to have a couple of trips to Eyebrook this year myself and long time pike buddy Jim were keen to have one last go at them before Eybrook closed its gates on the 31st of October.
The Fry Bash annual invitational match is a great competition organised by Chris Gurthrie. The match consisted of two days, the first is on Grafham on Saturday and Rutland on Sunday. The match is fished to an 8 fish kill both days with no time bonus and the ethos of the match is to help and support all anglers to catch as many fish as possible. It was great to see everyone in the car park exchanging flies and...
Gold on The Lake of Menteith After 22 years of trying Ireland eventually won gold away from home in Scotland, ironically the last time we won it away was also in Scotland on Loch Leven. What a week! The team captained by Martin McGorrian and Managed by Michael Monaghan had high expectations of some great fishing on the Lake of Menteith several weeks prior to the match with reports coming across the Irish Sea. The Irish Youths set the bar the...
Draycote Water AMFC Group 1 With The Soldier Palmers I jumped at the chance to fish Draycote with the Soldier palmers as it is one of my favourite waters. I got my dates mixed up and thought match day was Sunday and I would be practicing on the Saturday but unfortunately match day was Saturday so no practice for me. The Army team had 2 teams fishing as it was also group 3 match on the same day
I had not fished Grafham since the start of the season but I was really looking forward to it as all the reports where very positive and it sounded like it would be good top of the water fishing. Me and Gaz arrived early Friday morning for practice with Russ and Gazza all ready doing a practice day on Thursday. We decided to hit G buoy first as we had herd there was a good head of fish there. I...
Having not been able to get out on the water since our Airflo Anglian qualifier a couple of weeks ago I was rather excited at the thought of 2 days on In form Clywedog with reports of big bags of fish being caught on dries over the last few weeks. Only for the weather to throw its usual spanner into the works a blustery wet weekend was forecast. Saturday I partnered up with fellow Flybox Welsh Hawks Gareth (Gus )...
After spending time with the family over the bank holiday weekend and earning a few brownie points, it was time to get on the water. The sun was shining with a light to moderate south westerly so my 6 year old son and I headed to a local fishery for a few hours. I heard there had been some good top of the water action in recent weeks, so I was looking forward to some fishing on the dries. We...
At this time of year when family things take over weekends , so when you manage to get finished work early , a phone call to arrange a few hours on a local syndicate water to try out new flies was just what was needed .
Top rod for the day was Christian Jones who is captain of our second team amazing result fishing against a very strong field. We had avoided the curse and topped the day with great individual performances by Russ Gazza and Guss. The ever consistent Nymphomanics in second and our second team in third.
