November 29, 2009 – 12:01 pm
My fascination with all things saline began early, on what now would be a staycation, but then was a seaside holiday. As saltwater fly fishing has moved from the subtropical bonefish north into temperate waters, I have been able to combine my two passions and reduce No. 2’s irritation with me.
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Tagged Arundel Arms, bass, devonshire, fly, fly fishermen, fly fishing, Flyfishing, flyrod, mcnab, Saltwater, saltwater fly fishing, sea bass
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November 22, 2009 – 5:57 pm
We wrote this blog more than a year ago, but had to hold off sharing it with you for editorial reasons. Now, in the gloomy rain of autumn, it seems appropriate to hark back to summers gone, and dream of the ones to come. As I have observed when trying to justify my attempts to [...]
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Tagged Anne Voss-, Arundell, bass, bass on the fly, Brown Trout, devon, devonshire, fish, Fishing, fly, fly fishermen, Flyfishing, flyrod, freshwater, mcnab, River, sea bass, Sea Trout, spate, tamar, trout, voss
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September 9, 2009 – 7:00 am
Fortunately, excursions to the Outer Hebrides aren’t made or broken by the weather…for dour folk, the Hebrideans are weather optimists: whatever comes next, it won’t be the same twice. Very like the sport. After grouse, the odd snipe or passing plover, and a whatever the collective noun is for 3 salmonid species, we’d stretched FlyBe’s [...]
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Tagged Brown Trout, Fishing, golden eagles, grouse, Hebrides, Lewis, loch, midges, mink, mink trapping, outer hebrides, peregrine, plover, pointer, pointers, scottish national heritage, sea eagle, Shooting, snipe, trout, Walked, woodcock
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August 27, 2009 – 7:00 am
I’ve just stopped long enough to reflect on the truly glorious Glorious 12th we had in Yorkshire… I’m in the throes of complex packing for more walked up grouse (this time over pointers, not people) in the Outer Hebrides.
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Tagged fieldsports, FlyBe, grouse, Hampshire, Hebrides, outer hebrides, pointer, pointers, Red, Roe, Scotland, spaniel, Test, Wiltshire, Yorkshire
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August 22, 2009 – 7:00 am
My erstwhile fishing buddy Tony and I grabbed a day off between walked up days on the grouse moor to fish one of Yorkshire’s premiere rivers, the Wharfe.
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Tagged brownie, dryflies, Fishing, Grassington, Gravity, grouse, Kilnsey, Klinkhammer, olives, Orvis, premiere rivers, Rivers, Tennant, Walked, Wharfe, Yorkshire, Zero
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August 16, 2009 – 8:00 am
For every keen shot, August 12th is a red letter day in the sporting calendar: the glorious 12th, the start of the grouse season, harbinger of sport to come. This year I took a mixed bag of guns to enjoy the 12th and 14th on the moor above Grassington, North Yorkshire.
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Tagged Ashfield, August, Conistone, famous grouse, Grassington, grouse, heather, John Halstead Jr., Labrador, moor, North Yorkshire, pointers, rabbits, spaniels, vermin
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Way back in the grim castless days of last season when Toby the Pedant suggested we explore the sea trout possibilities of his local waters, it seemed a fabulous idea.
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Tagged brownie, brownies, devon, fishermen, Fishing, low water, Rivers, Sea Trout, trout, trout pool, water levels, west country, Wild
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Ascot week has been patchy to say the least, and not just when it comes to the horses I backed. Traditionally the week when wild partridge hatch, the weather for Ascot was considered to be an indicator of the success of the rearing season and therefore the shooting season.
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Tagged Avon, devon, Fallow, Game, Itchen, partridge, Roe, sea, Sea Trout, Shooting, Stalking, Test, trout fishermen, wild birds
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With my son in an Irish boarding school, I have taken to haunting Ireland’s rivers and coast in search of perfect sporting opportunities. We’ve bagged two new jaunts based around Dingle Bay in County Kerry: salmon and trout on the lower stretches of the River Caragh and albacore tuna on the fly offshore.
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Tagged albacore, albacore tuna, Caragh, county kerry, dingle bay, fly, fly fishing, kayak, offshore tuna, salmon, salmon fishing, salmon run, salmon trout, sea bass, Sea Trout, Tobias, trout, tuna fishing
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A year ago, I started documenting my quest for a muntjac in these pages. After many a long evening, and a great deal of patience, I finally shot a lovely, ENORMOUS muntjac buck.
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