October 27, 2009 – 7:45 am
The downside of the CLA Game Fair is that the most interesting people always seem to cross your path when you are juggling other commitments. When Matt McHugh introduced me to director and producer Nick Reygaert, I had my hands full of Orvis gear. Only later when I logged on to his website and read [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Events, Fishing, Press
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Also tagged CLA, cla game fair, festival, film festival, fly fishing, Fly Rise, Game, Gin-Clear, Nick Reygaert, Orvis
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All of us get those irritating phone calls at dinner time asking for a donation to a worthy cause, or bristle at the 1000s of trees felled to make the envelopes and paper for begging letters that come through the door. I don’t know about you, but in this climate of penny counting, I am [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Fishing
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Also tagged Atlantic, atlantic salmon, central Europe, CLA, Conservancy, Conservation, conservation trust, donation, Fair, fisherman, Game, game and wildlife, game conservancy trust, GWCT, Project, recovery, research, salmon numbers, salmon recovery, science, Trust, Wild, wild salmon, wildlife, wildlife conservation, wildlife management techniques
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Living in close proximity to the director of the British Deer Society has its disadvantages: when they have an auction, he bamboozles me with flattery (as only he can do), and I find myself guiding on the River Avon.
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Posted in Fishing, Stalking
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Also tagged auction, Avon, BDS, british deer society, brownie, coarse fish, fly, Mr. Crabtree, River, river avon, river keeper, Sea Trout, water
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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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By Howard
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Posted in Fishing, Packages
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Also tagged albacore, albacore tuna, Caragh, county kerry, dingle bay, fly, fly fishing, kayak, offshore tuna, salmon fishing, salmon run, salmon trout, sea bass, Sea Trout, Tobias, trout, tuna fishing
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August 25, 2008 – 11:02 am
Occasionally a plan comes together, and I pack the right equipment to make it happen. The estate we have been shooting grouse over pointers on happens to have the River Spey running right through it. This means three things: the potential for brownies, salmon, and fabulous whiskey.
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By Howard
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Posted in Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged brownies, fish, flies, grouse, gun, pointers, River, river spey, Shoot, Shooting, whiskey
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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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By Howard
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Posted in Fishing, Packages
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Also tagged Arctic, Austria, Austrian, austrians, char, danube, diversity, fishermen, Fishing, fishing packages, grayling, Innsbruck, package, River, Rivers, 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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By Howard
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Posted in Fishing
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Also tagged bass, Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, droppers, fish, Fishing, Hampshire, Howard Day, Itchen, Rivers, Sea Trout, Southern Counties, stream, Test, UK, wader, weight rods
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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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By Howard
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Posted in Events, Fishing
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Also tagged bass, blog, Britain, British, Brown Trout, fish, Fishing, Howard Day, instruction, Itchen, largemouth, novices, Orvis, photography, Press, rainbow trout, Rivers, riverside, Shoot, sport, sportspeople, stream, Test, Texas, trout, UK
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March 28, 2008 – 11:03 am
Our peripatetic habits and Blackberry addiction make email (through the form below) the best way to reach us.
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By Christopher
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Also tagged Alberta, alpine, angler, arapawa, bass, boar, British, Brown Trout, Calgary, Canada, Canadian, Clays, countrywide, duck, elk, falconry, Fallow, fish, Fishing, fly, French, freshwater, Game, goat, grouse, gun, heather, Hebrides, hog, Howard Day, Hunt, instruction, Itchen, Lewis, Lewis Snipe, loch, London, lunch, mailing, moor, moose, mule, Muntjac, novices, Orvis, Outer, package, partridge, pheasant, photographer, quail, rabbit, Red, red stag, Rivers, Rocky Mountains, Roe, Safari, Scottish, Shoot, Shooting, Sika, snipe, sport, Sporting, Stalk, Stalking, stream, tahr, team, Test, turkey, UK, USA, varmint, Walked, Walked-up, waterfowl, whitetail, Wild, woodcock, woodland
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March 26, 2008 – 10:26 am
Flicking the fluff can take the keen angler around the globe in pursuit of quarry large and small.
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By Christopher
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged angler, Atlantic, bass, British, Brown Trout, camp, fish, Fishing, fly, freshwater, Hebrides, Itchen, New Zealand, Orvis, package, quarry, Rivers, riverside, Scottish, Southern Counties, sportspeople, stream, Test, the Gulf, trophy, tunny, UK, USA
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