You know you should find a fish in a river when the river’s name appears in the fish’s! So when we put the shotguns and rifles down long enough to flick fluff in the River Vaal, I fully expected to have the Vaal-orange largemouth yellowfish (Labeobarbus kimberleyensis) yanking my line.
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Also tagged Crocs, floods, fluff, Kimberley, Labeobarbus, largemouth, monitor lizards, smallmouth, stream, Vaal, Vaal-orange, wet flies, yellow fish
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January 13, 2010 – 2:07 pm
As the 2009/10 season draws to a close we have certainly had our share of weather! From shirt sleeves in November to being almost drowned in December to now being frozen, we’ve seen the lot.
Looking for a chance to get away from it all this spring (Dates TBC) ? I am looking for a clutch [...]
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing, Packages
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Also tagged Argentina, brownies, Cordoba, del fuego, Doves, menendez, northern patagonia, rainbow, Sea Trout, Shooting
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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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Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged brownie, dryflies, Fishing, Grassington, Gravity, grouse, Kilnsey, Klinkhammer, olives, Orvis, premiere 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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Posted in Events, Packages
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Also tagged brownie, brownies, devon, fishermen, Fishing, low water, Sea Trout, trout, trout pool, water levels, west country, Wild
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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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Also tagged Arctic, Austria, Austrian, austrians, char, danube, diversity, fishermen, Fishing, fishing packages, grayling, Innsbruck, package, River, salmon, taimen, trout
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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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Also tagged bass, Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, droppers, fish, Fishing, Hampshire, Howard Day, Itchen, salmon, Sea Trout, Southern Counties, stream, Test, UK, wader, weight rods
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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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Also tagged Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, fish, fishery, Fishing, fly, Flyfishing, Hampshire, hatching, Howard Day, Itchen, mayfly, mayfly hatch, Orvis, stream, Test, Trout. rainbow trout
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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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Also tagged Chalkstreams, fish, fishery, Fishing, fly, Flyfishing, insect, invertebrate, Itchen, Keeper, mayfly, mayfly hatch, Over-grazing, preservation, rainbow trout, riverside, stream, swan, Test, weed
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Spring has sprung…well and truly in artesian style. All this rain has made fishing very challenging.
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Posted in Corporate Entertainment, Fishing
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Also tagged Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, fish, Fishing, Flyfishing, Hampshire, Itchen, mayfly, mayfly hatch, rain, spate, Test
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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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Also tagged Brown Trout, fly, Flyfishing, Howard Day, Itchen, mayfly, mayfly hatch, novices, Orvis, Test, UK
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