February 21, 2010 – 3:39 pm
When Britain mothballs game shooting for the season, my attentions turn to sport further afield, and to the next season looming on the horizon – a summer of game clays and fishing for trout and salmon.
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By Howard
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Posted in Corporate Entertainment, Events, Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged boar, Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, Clays, covey, game clays, game shooting, grayling, pointers, quail, Shooting, simulated game, trout
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December 3, 2009 – 8:00 am
Are you searching for the perfect gift for the person who has everything? Or maybe, like me, you are trying to help loved ones to buy something you actually WANT and not another pair of socks or the ever-present scarf? Outside Days provides flyfishing lessons for every level of fisherperson, from the complete beginner to [...]
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Posted in Fishing, Packages
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Also tagged birthdays, christmas, fly, fly fishing, Flyfishing, flyfishing lessons, gift for the person who has everything, lesson plans, Outside Days, pond, River, Teach
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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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Also tagged Anne Voss-, Arundell, bass, bass on the fly, Brown Trout, devon, devonshire, fish, 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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Posted in Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged Brown Trout, 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 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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By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged brownie, dryflies, Grassington, Gravity, grouse, Kilnsey, Klinkhammer, olives, Orvis, premiere rivers, Rivers, Tennant, Walked, Wharfe, Yorkshire, Zero
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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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By Howard
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Posted in Events, Packages
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Also tagged brownie, brownies, devon, fishermen, low water, Rivers, Sea Trout, trout, trout pool, water levels, west country, Wild
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We all have the odd crazy friend who is determined to blend their sporting passions to create new fusion sports. I seem to collect them, and Kayak Nick is the sanest of the lot.
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Ok so I found myself in Dallas, TX with a couple of days to spare. Having fished for stripers on the eastern seaboard with very little to show for it, I couldn’t resist going to see these landlocked fish. At least I knew where they would be.
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Also tagged America, American, bass, boat, clouser minnow, Dallas, fish, fly, flyfisherman, Lake Texoma, Oklahoma, reservoir, Steve Hollensed, striped bass, striper, stripers, surface action, Texas, UK
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Orvis has become synonymous with flyfishing, a company passion evident in everything they produce from rods to luggage to clothing. That commitment to the sport extends to training their retail staff.
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Posted in Corporate Entertainment, Events, Fishing, Packages
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Also tagged battenkill, brownies, fish, fly, Flyfishing, grayling, Manager Philip Nicholson, Matrix, Orvis, rainbow, TLS, trout
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When men are bored, we invent a new sport. When fishermen are bored, we invent new ways to catch familiar fish, or new fish to catch with familiar methods. And so began the quest to catch a barbel on the fly.
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing
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Also tagged barbel, bottom feeders, fishermen, fly, Helios, nymph, nymphs, pike, shoal, trout
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