Tag Archives: Rivers

Fishing from Spring to See

The cool, clear waters of the Austrian rivers are fed by snow melt and springs, ideal for the salmonids they contain in diversity.
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Splashing Around in the Dark: Sea trout on the Itchen

Start eating your carrots: some of the best fishing to be had in the summer months takes place after dark. Sea trout, the peripatetic siblings of the brown trout, return to the streams of their birth to spawn in the summer months.
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Gamekeepa Fishin’

All of us need to escape the daily grind now and then, and flicking the fluff for mayfly-delirious brown trout is an addictive relaxant.
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Swan Replaces Trout on the Nation’s Plate?

One of the local river keepers is taking issue with the Queen’s diet: she’s not eating enough swan and, unchecked by natural predators, the mute swan population is booming.
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Fishing for Hippos in the Hampshire Chalkstreams

Spring has sprung…well and truly in artesian style. All this rain has made fishing very challenging.
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The Mayfly Have Landed

It’s been a funny kind of year for flies: almost no hawthorne, and straight into the mayfly hatch. Despite a stiff breeze, the mayfly started hatching about lunchtime on Tuesday, and trout took immediate notice.
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Flyfishing claims another victim

It’s always rewarding to introduce someone to a new passion and pastime. This week we watched as builder extraordinare and all-round superhero Lee dipped his toe into the flyfishing pool by taking an evening lesson with me.
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Orvis Cast and Blast Meon Springs

Family-friendly Meon Springs provided the perfect setting for Orvis’ Cast and Blast, and the powers that be provided unbelievable weather despite the best efforts of the meteorologists to convice us otherwise.
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Orvis Open Day River Test

Orvis hosted its annual Open Day on the River Test at Kimbridge.
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Cabin Fever: In which the Brits meet Texas Largemouth Bass

After a hectic few days shopping and pursuing hogs and quail, the pace slowed when we arrived in Golden, TX to stay with our friend Chris Wiesinger of Southern Bulbs at his little red cabin by the lake. The ‘lake’ is a 6 acre pond populated in equal number by turtles and largemouth bass.
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